Take your PADI course at Atmosphere in the Philippines

The great thing is that there’s already a lot to see at 2 metres! The Seal Team consists of a number of Aqua Missions in the pool where children become familiar with the basic scuba skills. The Seal Team is perfect for holidays as it stretches over several days with a small portion of “class” per day.

Children can also gain their junior PADI Open Water Diver certification from the age of 10, followed by the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course at age 12. Diving together as a family is a great way to spend a holiday and many of the classes and subsequent dives can be done together.

For more information, see our page on kids diving.

The popular PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course (or Junior Advanced, available from 12yrs) is a fun way to experience different environments and types of diving as well as new equipment and skills. Over two days, you’ll do 5 very different dives with the safety of an accompanying instructor (and with a minimal amount of theory involved!). There is a long list of dives you can do, for example Night dives, Deep dives, Fish ID dives, and Drift dives. Team it up with a Nitrox course and you’re well on your way to making the most out of your time underwater.

Taking the adventure one step further is the PADI Rescue Diver Course – a great way to challenge yourself and develop integral dive safety knowledge and skills to help both yourself and others to prevent and solve problems on the surface or underwater. The Emergency First Response (EFR) course is an integral part of any rescue course and with its elements of First Aid and Primary Care, it will provide you with skills useful also outside of diving.

Another popular next step is technical diving. We teach tech diving at Atmosphere, following the TDI programs from intro to tech and sidemount, up to Trimix. We also guide rebreather dives and have the facilities to host smaller technical diving groups. Technical Diving Philippines is easy accessible at Atmosphere! Want to know more? See our technical diving page.

We also teach the PADI Underwater Photography course, if you are keen to get a certificate to go with your new knowledge! Olympus and GoPro cameras are available for rent.

The coast of Dauin is an underwater paradise for macro photographers, whereas Apo Island and many of our artificial reefs are perfect for wide-angle. Our spacious camera room has room for over 20 photographers and has individual cubby holes for all camera setups. It is equipped with air guns, towels and power outlets for 110 and 220 volts. Our dive centre and large, traditional bangka boat has dedicated freshwater camera tanks.

If you are looking for a career in diving or just want to challenge yourself further, we offer the PADI Divemaster program. This intense and fun program can take between 2 weeks and 2 months, depending on the level of practical application that you are looking for. The dive theory can be done online before your arrival, and you’ll be able to focus on workshops, teaching, assisting on courses, and guiding dives.

As a 5 star Career Development Centre we also teach PADI Instructor courses 7-8 times per year with Instructor Development Philippines. We have the advantage to have teamed up with Liquid Dumaguete which means that instructor candidates will experience two different locations during their course and a multitude of PADI Course Directors and Staff Instructors. More information about PADI IDC’s with Atmosphere.