The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is the world's largest recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson. Cronin was originally a NAUI instructor who decided to form his own organisation with Erickson, and to break diver training down into different courses instead of the single universal course then prevalent. read more »
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St Abb's Scotland...freezing!
13/08/08- PADI 18 metre open water qualification,Capernwray Having previously snorkelled at the Great Barrier Reef and dived a shipwreck in Cyprus I was tempted to qualify with PADI (professional association of diving instructors). I enquired with a local company in Pudsey who ran the 18m course for £250. We spent a whole weekend doing to necessary classroom and pool work and then booked into do the actual open water dives in a fresh water quarry in a place called Capernwray, Lancashire one of the following Sundays. From the outside, the training area looked small and with my ‘experience’ I thought this would be a diddle, ... read the full review »
Reviewed: 31 Jan 2013
