Celebrating 60 Years of Saving the Ocean With PADI: A Legacy of Conservation and a Future Built on Purpose As PADI celebrates its 60th anniversary, let's take a look back at its legacy of conservation and purpose, and its vision for the future.
PADI Member Tour: Cyprus and Canary Islands PADI Regional Manager, Jason Sockett, is hitting the road throughout November and December 2022 to bring PADI members a comprehensive program of business and training events to get you ready for 2023. Be sure to check out upcoming events in your area and signup online or look out for an email invite. Please contact Jason...
What I’ve Learned: Tony Fontes Australia’s prolific Course Director on teaching generations of instructors, family, and fighting to preserve the Great Barrier Reef.
What I’ve Learned: Durwood J. (DJ) Morin 46-year PADI Member DJ Morin (MSDT – 4388) reflects on his early years as a scuba diver, a role as Connecticut’s Loch Ness monster, and his proudest achievements in a storied diving career.
What I’ve Learned: Bill Matthies Founder of the Minnesota School of Diving, established in 1959, PADI Instructor Bill Matthies reflects on 61 years of a diving life.
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...
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...
