Atmosphere Newsletter January 2017

Dive Center News

Bigger and better dive center facilities at Atmosphere!

To facilitate for our growing numbers of diving guests, the dive center has been given its own dive reception and we have renovated the camera room to provide a private room for 18 divers with cameras. We have also extended the dive equipment rooms to comfortably house 58 divers. Staff are also excited to now have their own personal equipment storage area – and speaking of staff, dive center manager Marco has promoted instructor Lor Banua to dive center supervisor, something that will improve our guest service immensely! Congratulations to Lor!


Spa Update

Our Spa expands and adds one more pavilion

During December, we have added one more spa pavilion in our garden spa, extending it to five pavilions. The demand for spa treatments has been so high during our peak seasons that four pavilions weren’t enough – a pleasant problem to have. An easy solution was to build a new one. The fifth pavilion will be used for manicures, pedicures and foot reflexology. At the same time, one of the original pavilions has now got a specifically designed thai massage and yin massage table.


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Staff

A few recent additions to the Atmosphere team – what a fab seven!

Meet Aiko, Ollie, Adelfa, Julia, Ed, Sam and Alma! We always strive to hire great people at Atmosphere and these seven are not just great but also people you may come in contact with before or during your stay at the resort.
We are expanding Sales Manager Saila Kitola's sales team with Aiko Valiente, our new Sales Assistant who assists the sales team with group bookings, quotations and emails to prospective guests. Oliver "Ollie" Mischo is our German-speaking Regional Sales Representative for Central-Europe and Australia.

Adelfa Bolocon is a great addition to our previously all-male dive team. A very experienced dive master, she will show you the tiniest critters along the coast. Julia Zeng has already been with us for a year and she is Atmosphere’s HR manager, taking care of hiring, training and staff administration. Ed Maranan will be welcoming you to the restaurant as our Maître d'hôtel, making sure your culinary wish makes it to the kitchen and give you excellent advice on wine. Sam Alderete is our IT manager and worked at Atmosphere during our start-up years, and is now back with us again.
Last but not least, Alma Alcoran is our Marketing Assistant, graphic designer and in-house photographer. If you want your picture taken at Atmopshere, she is the one to ask!


Dive Center News

Atmosphere Resort - now proudly PADI Five Star CDC

In January, Atmosphere was awarded the highest classification a PADI dive center can obtain - we are now a PADI Career Development Center (CDC).
The PADI CDC rating is awarded to PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Dive Resorts that are particularly dedicated to professional development for dive instructors. PADI Five Star CDC’s are committed to excellence and provide divers with the opportunity to live the dive lifestyle and Go PRO.
With six Instructor Courses held per year through Instructor Development Philippines and an extensive program to promote our own local staff to divers and dive professionals, we feel that we are on top of our game!

Marinelife

Don’t miss it! Frogfish season has started at Atmosphere

Frogfish season has begun at Atmosphere with the first hairy frogfish of the year spotted by our marine biologist Daniel at Secret Corner last week. You don’t want to miss this – juvenile and adults frogfish or all sizes, shapes and colors will take over the reef and sand the next few months.
Book your holiday now for some amazing frogfish action!

F&B

New craft beers at Atmosphere!

We are proud to now stock local craft beer from The Cebruery in Cebu in our Atmosphere bar. Artisanal, uncompromising, and innovative beers - and with great labels too! We currently sell the Dumaguete Dubbel, the Witchy Woman Pumpkin Amber and the Las Islas Pilipinas L.IPA. The supply will change with the seasons though, and we can’t wait to see what we’ll be drinking next! Come try them next time you visit Atmosphere!

Save the date!

Our marine biologist Daniel speaks at the DRT Show in Singapore

Come listen to our Atmosphere Resorts marine biologist Daniel Geary talk about his favorite subject - frogfish - at the DRT Dive show in Singapore in February. The show will run between February 24-26 and you can listen to Daniel on the 25th – as well as visit the Atmosphere booth, nr D87 in Suntec Exhibition Center. Dan will also be on Atmosphere's stand the first couple of days!

Spa Update

Time to work off those Christmas puddings in the Tree House

It seems that Christmas at Atmosphere was not all about over indulgence. Our yoga teacher Rae had a record number of Yoga attendees over the festive period and Joel - Atmosphere's Personal Trainer and TRX instructor - was super busy with his daily classes and lots of private one-on-one training sessions. Mind you, what better way to work out than in the tree house, overlooking the ocean and Apo Island with a lovely fresh breeze.

Photographer of the month

Jason captures some of Atmosphere’s favorites

In December, we were fortunate to have underwater photographer Jason Isley from Scubazoo here for a week and he got some amazing shots of our underwater world. Jason is the author of the book “Small Blue World: Little People. Big Adventures”, where he has used miniatures of people to photograph marine life in a very unusual way, bringing up marine conservation issues with a bit of humor.


F&B

Purple Filipino goodness in the Atmosphere kitchen

Heard about an Ube doughnut in Brooklyn that costs a staggering $1,000 a dozen and wondered what that purple thing tastes like? Well here, they’re everywhere.

Pronounced as Ooh-beh and commonly known as purple yam, this root crop is very popular here in the Philippines. Similar to sweet potato, it can be mashed and sweetened as a dessert or seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs for a good filling side dish.
Aside from being a good source of carbs, this violet vegetable is also packed with antioxidants and vitamin A, C, E, fiber, iron, potassium and is also a good detoxing agent. Its paleo, vegan and because mostly homegrown, it sure is organic.
Ask for a scoop of Ube ice cream at Atmosphere, its taste and color are truly heavenly.

Atmosphere in the media

Our frogfish in EZDIVE Magazine!

December 2016’s edition of bi-lingual dive magazine EZDive, had 12 amazing pages about our favorite critter - the frogfish – written and photographed by our very own Mr. Frogfish – Daniel Geary. We are very proud to be the frogfish capital of the world and to be able to teach our PADI Distinctive Frogfish Specialist course! The cover of the magazine is of a psychedelic frogfish not yet found here in the Philippines – but we are hopeful! Click here for the full article.

Instructor Development

Three happy new dive instructors in January

Congratulations to everybody! Well done Chris Hurst, Anthony B. Cruz and Jenny Jiao of Instructor Development Philippines and to Sea Explorers Philippines 3 candidates! Also a big thank you to PADI Examiner Richard Evans. — with Tim Bradley, Chris Hurst, Jenny Jiao, Anthony B. Cruz, Tracy Chan, Berlinda Koolen and Tim Latimer at Instructor Development Philippines. Our Next IDC is in March, contact info@instructordevelopmentphilippines.com.

PADI Certifications December 2016                                                


Scuba Diver
Emma Chang

Open Water Diver
Jarrett Mcpeek, Rachael Woolley, Slawa Macfie, David Macfie, Ian Van Dyk, Jaryd Templar, Stefan Brunnberg,
Axel Gullers, Aminah Strein, Erik P Pineda

Advanced Open Water Diver
Sara Wilson, Joshua Shervinski, Celina Strein, Thorsten Strein

Enriched Air Diver
Damon S Kennish, Olle Rislund, Therese Rislund

Rescue Diver & EFR
Jackson D Coles

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