PADI is the world’s leading scuba diver training organisation.
With more than 6400 PADI dive centres and resorts, and more than 133,000 individual PADI Professionals who have issued more than 25 million certifications around the world, you’ll find PADI diver courses and scuba diving services nearly everywhere.
The PADI System of diver education is based on progressive training that introduces skills, safety-related information and local environmental knowledge to student divers in stages. PADI courses are student-centred and provide maximum practice and realistic application.
PADI's mission is to create a global community of confident, competent and active divers who are champions of the water planet. Our brand vision is to be the best in and for the world. PADI changes lives in deep and meaningful ways, uniting diver voices to speak for those that cannot. To be the best in the world, we all must be the best for the world by protecting the ocean planet we love.
PADI EMEA Regional Headquarters is based in Bristol, UK.