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Pia Venegas: Shark Girl

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Updated by Danielle Schofield on <time class="updated" datetime="2016-06-20T08:35:04-07:00">June 20, 2016</time>
Life in the city, traffic, and the daily office grind are a few of the many reasons that Pia took to the diving world.  Her aspirations of adventure, wanderlust, and a carefree lifestyle propelled her to leave her job and her country, and become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. Now, 29 year […]

Transformational Scuba

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Updated by Drew Schneier on <time class="updated" datetime="2016-03-30T15:45:32-07:00">March 30, 2016</time>
Guest post by Jill Heinerth In my predictable middle-class family, dinners were normally shared around the table and television viewing was limited, with strict parental supervision. But, every Sunday night we were permitted to eat in the family room and watch Jacques Cousteau don slick rubber neoprene, and descend into a world of wonder. He traveled […]

Go Behind the Scenes of an Underwater Commercial Shoot

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Updated by Drew Schneier on <time class="updated" datetime="2016-03-17T13:53:51-07:00">March 17, 2016</time>
World Surf League – Chaos Theory – Making Of Scenes from Eskimo on Vimeo. Bill Swano is a PADI diver who often uses his scuba skills for his job as an Art Director for television. He specializes in adventure travel, competition reality TV as well as commercials and event design. Watch him at work in this […]

The Dive Behind the Photo: Sophie Hart

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Updated by Brooke McConnell on <time class="updated" datetime="2021-03-31T21:09:13-07:00">March 31, 2021</time>
This beautiful image from photographer and PADI Divemaster Sophie Hart is featured on the 2016 PADI Diving Society membership cards. We sat down with Sophie as she described the dive behind the shot, as well as some other insights into her budding career as an underwater photographer. When did you become a PADI diver? I did my […]

Where to Dive in Thailand (According to the Pros)

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Updated by Ashley Levy on <time class="updated" datetime="2021-04-09T15:17:16-07:00">April 09, 2021</time>
underwater kiss from thailand Seven years ago, I traveled to Koh Tao to get my PADI Open Water certification, the first step in a long road – er, swim? While I can now rattle off more than a dozen countries I’ve been lucky enough to dive in, Thailand will always be my spiritual scuba home. My time there has introduced […]

Family Ties: A My PADI Story

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Updated by Brooke McConnell on <time class="updated" datetime="2021-03-31T21:09:38-07:00">March 31, 2021</time>
Words and photos by Rainer Jenss, PADI Open Water Diver and President & Founder of Family Travel Association. Click to display the embedded YouTube video My wife and I became PADI certified in the summer of 1993, right before our wedding day.  Why?  Because we wanted to go scuba diving during our honeymoon, which took […]