Top Destinations to Get Your PADI Night Diver Certification

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Diver lighting up a whip coral with a torch on a night dive Diving at night isn’t just cool, it’s also the chance to witness nocturnal marine life on the prowl. Animals like eels, lobsters, shrimps, crabs and octopuses can be seen during the day, but typically they’re laying low, waiting for nightfall when they leave their assorted lairs to hunt. And, in addition to seeing these new […]

Why Slow Divers are the Best Kind of Diver

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Purple star or ochre star in Newport, Oregon Written by Candice Landau “There’s barely any life out there!” A throw-away comment I made barely two months after getting certified. At the time I had been diving Mike’s Beach Resort in the Hood Canal in Washington State. After my second dive I clambered out of the water, the frustrated exclamation instantly leaving my lips. […]

The Blonde Abroad Talks Scuba Diving and Dream Destinations

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The blonde abroad kiersten rich scuba diving maldives   After leaving a stable career in corporate wealth management, PADI AmbassaDiver TM Kiersten Rich began a new journey called The Blonde Abroad, a solo female travel blog. Since then, she has been defining her own version of success by traveling to more countries than most do in their entire lifetimes, discovering new cultures, learning about […]

How To Celebrate Your Diving Milestones

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scuba diving in hawaii with padi For starters, to be able to celebrate your 50th, 100th or another hallmark dive, divers need to log every dip, even if that just means checking the log on your dive computer, if your dive computer is capable of keeping count. Doing something special not only helps you remember the hallmark dives, but also builds […]

PADI Joins the Global Ghost Gear Initiative to Combat Lost and Abandoned Fishing Gear

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Ghost gear collected during a beach clean-up by GGGI participants World Animal Protection and Surfers Against Sewage on Perranporth beach, Cornwall, UK. © World Animal Protection/Greg Martin     PADI®  has joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI), the first global alliance working to solve the worldwide problem of lost and abandoned fishing gear, known as ghost gear. Founded by World Animal Protection in 2015, the GGGI works to reduce the volume of ghost gear, remove and recycle such gear, and rescue […]