PADI Pros - Europe

6 weeks to go until PADI Women's Dive Day 2026.

If you haven't registered your event yet, now is the time.

PADI Women's Dive Day is one of the biggest opportunities of the year to bring your community together, introduce new people to diving, inspire continuing education, and create meaningful connections through a shared passion for the ocean.

This year's theme also encourages divers to take action for shark and ray conservation through citizen science, helping turn every dive into a contribution to ocean protection.

📅 18 July 2026
🌊 Register your event on PADI Adventures
🦈 Support shark and ray conservation through action

Join thousands of PADI Members around the world and help make this year's Women's Dive Day the biggest yet.

Get started: http://padi.co/751yo13g

When John Cronin and Ralph Erickson founded PADI in 1966 and operated it out of Cronin's basement, booking a scuba course (and travel) looked nothing like it does today.

In the early years, the path to becoming a diver was rooted in local community networks, handwritten forms and printed manuals.

Even then, one element connected becoming a diver in every era: the moment of discovery, that first spark of curiosity about what lies beneath the surface.

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Congratulations to ndsmalta who have achieved the rating of PADI 5* Dive Centre. Not only that, they are also the only PADI Eco Centre in the Maltese Islands! Great work New Dimension Scuba (NDS) Malta team!

Parabéns a todos os novos intrutores PADI que passaram no Exame de Instrutores em Peniche, Portugal. Um muito obrigado a todos os Membros PADI que ajudaram a que este IE tivesse decorrido sem problemas.

Un grand bravo, Gefeliciteerd, Congratulations to all the candidates at the PADI IE in Beauvechain, Belgium and to the who trained them successfully. Welcome to the team. Enjoy your achievement and teaching PADI courses. Many thanks to the , who helped to make this IE happening smoothly.

We're excited to welcome Paul Toomer to PADI as our new Global Tec Diving Consultant. A PADI Course Director since 2001 and one of the industry's most respected technical diving instructor trainers, Paul brings decades of experience, leadership, and passion for diver education. As we continue to grow our technical diving programs and deepen our commitment to the dive industry, Paul's expertise will help shape the future of tec diver training and exploration worldwide. Please join us in welcoming Paul to the PADI team!

Congratulations to all of the new PADI instructors who successfully completed their PADI Instructor Examination recently in Tralee, Ireland.
We wish you the best of luck in your future dive careers. Now go and seek adventure and save the ocean. Thank you to everyone who assisted with the smooth flow of the IE.

To celebrate 60 years of PADI, let's look at 60 habits that are the marks of the best PADI Divemasters and Assistant Instructors. You probably have most of these, but reminders and new ideas never hurt ⤵️

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Huge congratulations to Kingfish on receiving an award for their outstanding contribution to growth of Emergency First Response. Excellent job, guys!!

Congratulations to all the new PADI Instructors from the Lago di Como IE. This is your passport to teaching the world the wonders of the underwater world. Be loud and proud about your achievements. Thanks to everyone who helped the smooth running of the IE.