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Photo Contest Winner David Valencia – The Story Behind the Shot
In 2014, every PADI Diving Society member will receive a membership card with this amazing whale shark photo from photographer David Valencia. David, a marine biologist and PADI Master Scuba Diver...
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Scuba Jobs: What It’s Like to Work on a Liveaboard
Below is an interview with Marco Villegas – a PADI Instructor who’s made a career out of working on different liveaboard boats around the world. We asked Marco to share his experience and advice, and...
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Scuba Jobs – Senior Editor Sport Diver Magazine
Our latest career month interview is with Tara Bradley, Senior Editor at Sport Diver magazine. She’s also the mystery woman behind Sport Diver’s Twitter account: @sportdiver. What inspired you to...
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Interview with PADI Open Water Model Estrella Navarro Holm
Learning to be comfortable underwater is a challenge in itself, but imagine trying to be comfortable underwater while posing for pictures. In a recent photo shoot for PADI’s revised Open Water Diver...
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Scuba Diving Career: Maritime Archaeologist
Maritime archaeologist is a scuba diving job that explores archaeological remains in or near the water. Marine archaeologists piece together information about humanity’s past by diving wrecks,...
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Scuba Jobs: EPA Scientific Diving
For most divers, scuba diving is an escape from every day life. But there are a lucky few who dive during their workday. Scientific divers take the plunge in the name of research to learn more about...
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Scuba Diving Career: FBI Dive Team
The FBI’s Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team (USERT) is a highly-trained group of Special Agents who investigate underwater crime scenes at a moment’s notice. The team is made up of...
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Andrew Raak: Dive Instructor for Beginners and Billionaires
When we asked PADI Pro Andrew Raak for his job title, he suggested: Freelance Dive Instructor for beginners to billionaires, and everyone in between. Sounds like a great gig to us! Read on to learn...
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Alessandra Sicilia, PADI Master Instructor and Dive Center manager
Alessandra Sicilia is the manager of TGI Diving, with three PADI Dive Centers in Egypt and a total of 12 around the world. PADI Regional Mananger Jonas Samuelsson interviewed her in the run up to the...
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My PADI Interview: Jennifer Idol
“The direction of my career developed through PADI. Professionally, I was a graphic designer and photographer while I developed my scuba skills through continuing education. Taking ongoing classes...
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Go Behind the Scenes of an Underwater Commercial Shoot
World Surf League – Chaos Theory – Making Of Scenes from Eskimo on Vimeo. Bill Swano is a PADI diver who often uses his scuba skills for his job as an Art Director for television. He specializes in...
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Transformational Scuba
Guest post by Jill Heinerth In my predictable middle-class family, dinners were normally shared around the table and television viewing was limited, with strict parental supervision. But, every Sunday...
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Ayn Cando: PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor/Life-Changer
Every day, PADI Professionals change lives. They introduce people to the underwater world and give them a new perspective. Recently, Ayn Cando, became one of these life-changers. Here, she shares her...
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Lowri and Oli Go Pro – Our Cyprus Adventure
For the next few months we’ll be following the Cyprus Adventure of husband and wife duo Lowri and Oli James as Lowri blogs their scuba diving journey from Open Water Diver to PADI Professional. The...
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Underwater archaeology with AmbassaDiver Gemma Smith – Part 1
In this two part blog AmbassaDiver Gemma Smith writes about getting involved in the mysterious world of underwater archaeology… Why Underwater Archaeology? There are many aspects of diving I love, and...
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Underwater archaeology with AmbassaDiver Gemma Smith – Part 2
Continuing from part one, AmbassaDiver Gemma Smith explains her role in the underwater excavations of the famous Antikythera wreck… In 2012 a marine archaeologist from Woods Hole Oceanographic...
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Where Do Our Dreams Take Us?
This post marks the last in a series from guest blogger, Lowri James. We’ve been following her and her husband’s journey from non-divers to PADI professionals… Oli and I have now been living in Cyprus...
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Becoming a Scuba Instructor Can Be a Passport to the World
Honduras. Hawaii. Indonesia. Mexico. Zanzibar. These are the destinations Josiah Mackin, 35, has called home after becoming an instructor in 2009 at Utila Dive Center, a PADI® Career Development Center...
View ArticleThe Unsung Pioneers of Diving – Part 2
Written by PADI AmbassaDiver™ Gemma Smith Carrying on from my last blog on the unsung pioneers of diving, I had always intended to write now about some of my favourite male divers who have contributed...
View ArticleScuba Careers: Becoming an Underwater Archeologist
Love scuba diving, history and travel? A career as an underwater archaeologist might be the job for you – if you have the patience and buoyancy skills. Learn more about what it’s like to work as an...
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