Women in Leadership: How Successful Female-Led PADI Dive Centers Are Changing the Industry

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‘Why We Dive’, a message from PADI CEO Drew Richardson

PADI President and CEO Drew Richardson shares a message of hope and optimism for the global PADI Membership. In this post-pandemic world, providing evidence on how and why the dive industry remains resilient and continues to show signs of growth and recovery, testament to the ability of PADI Members to adapt and lead in times...

What I’ve Learned: Alvin Nacu

Explorer and PADI Course Director Alvin Nacu (CD – 150015) relives diving close calls, unexplored reefs, and words he lives by each and every day.

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What I’ve Learned: Agnes Upton

Co-owner of Maltaqua Dive Centre, 41-year PADI Member Agnes Upton (IDCS – 10461) shares what it was like to be a woman in the early days of diving, and the pride of building a business from the bottom up.

Project AWARE® and PADI® at Furaveri Resort, Maldives

Ocean lovers around the world have been invited to join in the AWARE Week celebrations and act for change. Project AWARE® is partnering up again with PADI® to mobilise the global dive community to be citizen activists for a clean ocean. The second annual AWARE Week, has seen conservation activities focused on keeping the ocean...

Baa Atoll Manta Festival 2019

For the second time around the Manta Festival was held here in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of the Baa Atoll. In 2018 the one day event was organized for the first time on the local island of Dharavandhoo and with all the speeches, presentations, games, music, dancing, education, snorkelling and of course with more ideas...

The Mystery of the Rannamaari Wreck – A Maldivian Legend

Maldives is an exciting destination for divers due to its crystal clear waters, vibrant reefs and a vast variety of marine life. Each island has its own house reef, and if not (which is most unlikely), one will never run out of snorkeling and dive spots nearby. Located in North Male’ Atoll, 25 minutes away...

Maldives breaks Freediving World Record

Maldives on Tuesday 1st of October broke the world record for the most people freediving simultaneously. As part of the World Tourism Day 2019 celebrations, the island nation’s President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih joined 520 others in simultaneous freediving off the lagoon of Baros Maldives resort, staying underwater for around 30 seconds. Freediving world champion Willian...

Olive Ridley Project – PADI Distinctive Specialty

The Olive Ridley Project (ORP) was founded in 2013 by Biologist Martin Stelfox in response to the alarming number of olive ridley sea turtles found entangled in abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (or ghost gear) in the Maldivian archipelago. Since then ORP strive to protect sea turtles and their habitats in the Indian Ocean...