Scouts: Scuba Diving Merit Badge

Us divers, in the scuba diving industry, we usually complain that we don’t do enough to promote scuba diving to the new generations. Well… today good news.
Welcome to the Scuba Diving Merit Badge:  Thi merit badge, the first new one in three years, will officially be released on Dec. 1 when it will be available [...]

Underwater Scuba diving Politics?

How can we ask politicians to protect the marine life in our countries, if many of them are fat bureaucrats that have never seen a fish apart from Finding Nemo. That’s why I thought this idea is pretty cool and a clear sign that to protect life, you need to understand it first. Ministers in [...]

Scuba Diving in India: new Industry ready to Take off?

If PADI wants to get in a market…. well, India could be a very nice $$$$ option. don’t you think? Millions and millions of future Indian divers interested in learning that Diving is Fun and that after diving, we need to Meet People, go Places, And Spend Money in PADI. Anyway… seriously the exotic water [...]

New cool PADI Toy

PADI Americas is rolling out the next generation in electronic dive planning – the Electronic Recreational

Dive Planner, Multilevel version (eRDPML). Developed by Diving Science and Technology (DSAT) and distributed by PADI, the new product makes planning single depth and multilevel dives easier than ever.
The eRDPML is not a dive computer, but an electronic dive table [...]

PADI Asia Pacific Member Awards 2008 Finalists

The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) Asia Pacific is proud to announce the finalists of the PADI Asia Pacific Member Awards for 2008. At the end of 2004 PADI Asia Pacific undertook the initiative to build a more rewarding and recognition based benefit program for PADI Members. Continuing the enormous success of the newly [...]

Seven Principles of Successful Dive Leaders

Exceptional Dive Leaders have that “special something” that sets them apart from the crowd. It’s not as mysterious as it sounds. Most of the time, that “special something” is the sheer determination to maintain positive habits of learning and teaching. Do you want to join the ranks of highly effective Dive Leaders? You can start [...]

SSI Launches New Digital Underwater Photography Specialty Program

Fort Collins, CO. Scuba Schools International (SSI), the premier education and business organization announces the launch of the new SSI Digital Underwater Photography specialty program at DEMA 2007. The program covers everything that any new or aspiring underwater photographer needs to know to take successful underwater digital photos.
The program includes a high quality full color [...]

Second Life : Virtually PADI? Or Virtually Stupid?

So we get the whole idea of E-learning.
You connect your PC, you get information about how to dive, you do your little knowledge reviews and then you arrive to the dive center ready to dive…. right? Yep, bye bye the personal contact with an experienced instructor… who needs that? No one. We are too busy… [...]

Surface Marker PADI Specialty

We’ve all seen them; when conducting courses, most of us carry this type of safety equipment to meet standards and many of us may even have sold some. Surface Marker Buoys (SMB)/safety sausages/delayed SMBs. Surface Marker Buoys serve a wide range of purposes, e.g. allowing shore cover / boat support to identify an ascending diver; [...]

Do you want to become a Scuba Diving Instructor?

Scuba Divers are made of many people that are tired of the usual tedious workday, followed by the nerve-racking task of driving; add all the noise pollution it instigates. That’s before everything else scuba divers encounter in these fast paced times outside of scuba diving. Some scuba divers go even further by finding a career [...]

DAN Tech Conference: A great opportunity

DAN keeps working in smartes ways, that’s why DAN will be launching DAN Technical Diving Conference Tech Diving 2008, bringing the industry’s best and brightest technical diving minds. In January 2008, the technical diving community will come together for a ground-breaking and important meeting of the minds.
The two-day conference, sponsored by DAN and planned for [...]

eLearning Kicks ass: PADI

Incredible. Outstanding. Impressive. Wow! – These are just some of the ways PADI retailers described the new PADI Open Water Diver Course Online after attending an eLearning Forum. Nearly 300 PADI retailers throughout the United States and Canada recently attended one of 27 eLearning Forums presented by PADI Americas. While many dive industry skeptics have [...]

Cave Diving Officer for South-East Asia

Cave diving is a growing activity in the Asia Pacific rim. More and more caves are explored all over the region. It’s a safe activity, as long as people are properly trained and follow safe standard practices.
One of the major leading association worldwide, the National Association of Cave
Diving (NACD), was established in 1968 for the [...]