As other stuff kept me busy I stopped working at Atlantis Dive Resort in Dumaguete last year.
I never said anything bad about Atlantis and the value for money, but what I now hear and read on different
SCUBA diving boards is just scary and life-threatening.
As safety in diving is my primary issue I am seriously concerned what is going on there now.
Last year I was contacted to help with some information about the altitude of the waterfalls. Putting my 2 Cents of knowledge together and the public post on
DumagueteInfo.com there must have been a Decompression problem. Getting in contact with the person I found out that the customer-caring management sent them to 650 – 700 meters altitude after 2 weeks of “hardcore”-diving (up to 4 dives a day) and two dives in the morning.
One of the guests suffered the next day during the flight from decompression-problems and had to extend the stop-over in Singapore for treatment in the recompression chamber.
Around the same time Chef Guenther gave me a note that some
Star-Divemaster went to Apo Island did a 42 meter dive and after a quite short surface interval a 46 meter dive. Those dives were no technical dives. Back on the Boat the diver recognized some itchy skin and red spots, a very clear sign for decompression problems. The responsible person on the boat was the Diveshop manager of
Atlantis Dumaguete and a
IDC-Staff Instructor from
Puerto Galera. The education-level of those should be high enough for some proper treatment, but at least Guenther the Chef (not diving since 3 years) knew what to do.
Other Philippino Instructors got fired for doing things like that, even there was no accident or problem involved. That probably never happens if you are the little puppie of one of the owners.....
I know It's a long post but it is even longer on that site
(read more)
and the story continues.... soon.
cheers
Rhoody