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PADI (Professional Association of Diving
Instructors) is the world's largest recreational
diving membership organization. The membership includes dive
businesses, resort facilities, academic institutions, instructor
trainers, dive educators, divers, snorkelers
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Professional
PADI Members (dive centers, resorts, educational
facilities, instructors, assistant
instructors and divemasters) teach the vast majority of the
world's recreational divers,
issuing approximately 1,000,000 dive certificates each
year.
PADI has offices in
Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the
UK and the USA. PADI Worldwide, the corporate head office,
is located in California, USA. |
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PADI's offices serve more than 100,000 individual professional members and
more than 4,300 dive centers and resorts in more than 175
countries. To serve the
needs of divers worldwide, translations of PADI materials are available in more than 20
languages. |
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Except for
educational materials and training aids PADI provides many services to its
members.
First
of all, there are a load of magazines and newsletters published by PADI
(The Undersea Journal, CEO Report, The Business of
Diving, Aqua, Sport Diver, Dive Traveler).
They also conduct annual seminars that cover various
educational, marketing and risk management topics. Each year PADI staff attend advisory
meetings and member forums to discuss local issues and develop national and international
dive community minimum training standards.
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Project AWARE (Aquatic World Awareness, Responsibility and
Education) encompasses PADI's environmental awareness and protection
philosophy. Through
their training, divers learn the importance of protecting fragile aquatic ecosystems and
are encouraged to become involved in preservation
efforts. PADI represents the interests of members and divers in the community
and before governments.
Since Sea World is a 5 Star member of PADI we take as
much advantage of the system as we can. So every PADI course conducted by
us will meet
the high standards of PADI - and many times even higher
ones too. |
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