Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)

With more than 130,000 PADI Professionals (divemasters, instructors and higher) and around 5300 PADI Dive Centres and Resorts operating in 180 countries and territories, PADI (the Professional Association of Dive Instructors) is the largest diver certification organisation in the world. Gaining your professional qualifications with PADI ensures you have the largest range of employment opportunities possible available to you after your training. PADI have over 25 speciality courses and a number of other continuing education courses that you can qualify to teach thus improving your attraction to employers, potential income and importantly your diving knowledge. PADI continues to show strong support for environmental and conservation issues through it’s “Project Aware” division and it’s affiliation with National Geographic. To assist instructors and employers alike PADI operates the largest and most useful online employment board in the dive industry. You will be oriented to this fantastic tool during you course with the GVI Dive Academy. Running a well respected quality assurance department dedicated to maintaining high standards in the industry has ensured PADI instructors continue to deliver the level of service today’s dive clients want. The GVI Dive Academy does offer some certifications through other specialist agencies like TDI and DAN in other areas of diving and associated courses.