New PADI Course Directors

Updated Discover Scuba Diving Participant Guide

The revised Discover Scuba® Diving Participant Guide includes new images, updated calls to action and new descriptions of special benefits. Throughout the guide, Discover Scuba Diving participants learn how to keep exploring by taking steps to earn a PADI Open Water Diver certification. They also learn about staying connected through My PADI Club™ and how...

Support Ocean Protection: PADI’s Four Pillars for Change

Project AWARE® turned 25 this year. It’s an incredible milestone made possible by your continued support for ocean protection. As PADI deepens its commitment to ocean health and marine animal protection through the Four Pillars of Change, now more than ever, PADI Pros are positioned to lead the charge by empowering the global dive community to...

Why Paperwork Matters

Read on to learn about common paperwork mistakes and what can happen if paperwork isn’t done completely and correctly. This article will also answer common questions like, “what happens if a student answers ‘yes’ on their medical questionnaire then wants to change it to a ‘no’?” Why Is Paperwork So Important? It informs divers of...

PADI Women’s Dive Day – A Huge Success

A special thank you to all who took part in PADI Women’s Dive Day 2017. You helped strengthen and grow the dive community while attracting new people to diving and freediving. You also helped motivate female divers to get back in the water and continue their dive adventures. The success of PADI Women’s Dive Day...

Deep Blue Divers became 100% AWARE partner

Deep Blue Divers at Six Senses Laamu this week partnered with Project AWARE, a global non-profit organization, to join their growing number of 100% AWARE Partners who put ocean protection at the heart of their business. From August, 2017 Deep Blue Divers will make a regular donation to protect the underwater world our dive business...

To eat or not to eat

As our understanding of the ocean grows, more people want to know where their food is coming from and how it landed on their plate. Global fisheries have been under pressure in recent decades due to the technological advancement of fishing fleets. We are now able to catch more fish at a faster rate and...

padi dive training

The Magic of Multiple-Level Dive Training

Written by John Kinsella It’s not too often you come across something that gets absolutely no hits on Google. Multiple-Level Training is one of those things. Where you will find it is under Organization in the Teaching Techniques section of PADI’s Guide to Teaching. If it’s been a while since you checked it out, take...

Help Improve Our Oceans

Written by Megan Denny National Geographic estimates 5.25 trillion pieces of trash end up in the ocean every year. That’s about 700 pieces of trash for every man, woman and child on the planet. And, a lot of that rubbish is plastic. The volume and types of trash in the ocean affects all marine creatures,...

Do Your Part – Dive Against Debris®

Written by Megan Denny For most people, ocean pollution is out of sight, out of mind, but as a dive professional you know that in many places there are significant debris problems lurking beneath the waves. That’s why Project AWARE® created Dive Against Debris® as a citizen science program that empowers you and your fellow...