Love Your Job, Your Lifestyle and Your Freedom
Get a life worth living: become a PADI Professional

You’ll do things others only dream of. Whether you work in a local dive shop, at a dive resort or on a liveaboard dive boat, the adventure of a lifetime is yours for the taking.

Imagine a job where you actually look forward to work in the morning. Sailing into incredible sunsets could be the rule, not the exception, especially if you work in a tropical dive destination. The commute to work could be as easy as a ten-minute boat ride and work becomes an adventure in itself.

Or, set your sights closer to home and aspire to work at your local PADI Dive Shop where you'll teach people scuba diving and guide scuba diving trips to exotic dive destinations. You’ll experience the pride of sharing your passion while helping others enrich their lives through the adventure of diving.

It’s about transformation both in yourself and those around you. As a PADI Professional, you have the ability to affect change -- to help student divers turn anticipation into passion, fear into courage, faint-heartedness into accomplishment and timidy into confidence. You’ll open their eyes to the world underwater, introduce them to vibrant coral reefs and watch them breathe underwater for the first time.

PADI Career Placement Assistance

As a PADI Professional, you gain access to career placement through the PADI Pros Site's job board, which lists career openings all over the world. In addition, many PADI Dive Shops or Resorts offer career placement assistance and mentoring.

View the Instructor Development Calendar to start your dream career today.

The more you learn with PADI's System of diver education, the more opportunities you have to teach scuba and grow. You can create a career path that is as flexible or structured as you like. You can:

Jobs you might enjoy when you live the dive life as a PADI Professional:

• Travel the world working as a PADI Divemaster or Scuba Instructor.
• Become a full or part time employee or manager at a PADI Dive Center or Resort.
• Help scuba divers improve their skills or learn special skills like underwater photography.
• Lead scuba divers on scuba diving trips to exotic locations all around the world.
• Work on a liveaboard dive boat, where your next dive is right outside your front door.
• Captain a dive boat.
• Be in charge of your own destiny — open a PADI Dive Shop or Resort.
• Take your career to the highest level as a PADI Course Director.
• Take advantage of job openings at your PADI Office.
• Create just about any opportunity you can imagine.

What you can teach, depends on your PADI Pro credential. Like any career, the more experienced you are, the more opportunities you have.

It's not hard to explain why teaching scuba diving is so rewarding. See what these PADI Pros have to say:

I Share the Awesome Experience of Diving
"I'm a PADI Pro because scuba diving is an experience to share with everyone! As a professional, I can introduce the underwater world to someone for the first time and be the first to see them smile when they discover what fun scuba diving is!”
Andrew Statler, PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer

I'm Living My Passion
"Diving is my profession and passion. I've been a fulltime professional for over 10 years and my work has taken me to some of the most exotic places on the planet. Sharing my passion is a pleasure and a privilege as is introducing new divers, and helping the more experienced to enjoy the wonders of our exciting world beneath the waves”.
Mike Harris, PADI Master Instructor

For the Fun, Excitement, Camaraderie
"After my first trip to Bonaire, I fell in love with the sport, and before I knew it, I was an Assistant Instructor! I enjoy passing on my knowledge and love of scuba diving to many students...some of whom have since become good friends. Our local dive shop plans social events for all of us to come to share our stories and just simply hang out with friends. Right now, we are all counting the days until our trip to Roatan, Honduras.” Karen Murphy,
Assistant Instructor

I Love My Job!
"I love my job! Why? It is a true pleasure working with people that are always happy, I can do it anywhere in the world, I go to marvelous places and I get paid! To look into the eyes of those who say that they have always wanted to try it but have been scared and then to have them learn and then see their smile of satisfaction is priceless! To watch your divers shine like complete professionals enjoying their dive, to get to know great people throughout the world, always enjoying work because you are always surprised at the new things you see at the bottom of the ocean, living in the Caribbean! To understand that although everyone is different once we learn to dive we all become special beings, your life can never again be the same and you had something to do with it. And I always have an ocean view!”
Laura Manjarrez, IDC Staff Instructor

 

 

 

PADI Scuba Certification Cards
The most respected and sought after scuba credentials in the world

Your scuba diving certification card is proof that you’ve successfully completed your PADI training. If you have your card, you can even start scuba diving today or refresh your dive knowledge. Check out the complete list of PADI Courses I can teach in the sidebar to the right.

Whether you want to replace your lost card or update your photo and/or your contact information, purchase a limited edition or Project AWARE card, or you’re inquiring about your card that has yet to arrive – Just go to PADI.com and follow the online steps.