PADI is the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, the worlds largest diver training organisation. PADI establishes training programmes, materials and standards, monitors their quality, certifies instructors and provides support services for PADI professional members.

The professionalism of PADI Instructors, Dive Centre's and Resorts has made PADI certifications the world's most respected and sought-after dive credentials.

You can be confident that your certification will be recognised virtually any place you go diving and that PADI's reputation stands behind it.

As the worlds largest diver training organisation, PADI enjoys the most diverse professional membership in the entire dive community. This is the world's most culturally and ethnically diverse group of recreational dive professionals.

There are more than 90,000 PADI Instructors, Assistant Instructors and Divemasters teaching diving and offering dive services in more than 180 countries and territories. You can find PADI dive materials in more than 20 languages. Today, virtually anyone who wants to learn to dive can find a PADI instructor nearby who speaks the same language and who comes form the same culture.

What does this mean to you? - It means that wherever your dive travels take you, you can be confident that the local dive community will recognise your diver credentials - even if PADI is the only word you can say in the local language!