You can find PADI professional-level training all over the world. You choose a PADI
Dive Center or Resort that provides the professional training you want, depending
upon your current certification level.
The following is a breakdown of the various PADI Dive Center and Resort facility
levels and the courses they provide. For specific courses not listed below call
your local PADI Dive Center or Resort
for availability.
PADI Dive Centers and Recreational Facilities
A PADI Dive Center is a professional business that specializes in the retail sale
of recreational scuba equipment, dive instruction and dive services. To qualify
as a PADI Dive Center, the business must commit to meeting and maintaining professional
business standards aimed at raising dive customer satisfaction. These standards
include offering PADI courses. To find a PADI Dive Center near you, visit our online
PADI Dive Center and Resort Directory.
PADI Resort
Plan your next dive vacation with one of more than 3000 PADI Resorts worldwide.
PADI Resorts specifically cater to scuba divers and snorkelers. With activities
like scuba and snorkel instruction, introductory scuba experience programs, guided
dive tours and snorkeling excursions and dive equipment rentals, PADI Resorts are
the perfect choice for traveling divers.
PADI Five Star Dive Centers
The PADI Five Star Dive Center membership level is awarded to progressive PADI Dive
Centers that excel in providing divers with a full range of diver education programs,
equipment selection, and experience opportunities. To qualify as PADI Five Star
Dive Centers, an operation must meet elevated service and business standards, and
promote and offer PADI courses as their only recreational diver training. These
dive centers also actively promote aquatic environmental awareness and embrace the
PADI System of diver education, with a commitment to providing customers with quality
products, services and experiences.
PADI Gold Palm Resorts
Quality accommodations, superior service and excellent dive opportunities make PADI
Gold Palm Resorts stand out from the rest. Resorts of this caliber focus on memorable
dive experiences, customer satisfaction, diver safety and environmental awareness
by going the extra mile to provide professional and outstanding service – from beginning
scuba programs to wreck diving and shark dives.
PADI Five Star Instructor Development Center
A PADI Five Star Instructor Development Center (Five Star IDC) not only meets all
PADI Five Star Dive Center standards, but also meets additional training standards
required to offer PADI Instructor-level training. A PADI Five Star IDC offers dive
consumers programs to fulfill their educational goals from entry-level training
up through instructor-level certifications.
PADI Gold Palm Instructor Development Center
A PADI Gold Palm Instructor Development Center (Gold Palm IDC) not only meets all
PADI Gold Palm standards, but also meets additional training standards required
to offer PADI Instructor-level training. A PADI Gold Palm IDC offers dive consumers
programs to fulfill their educational goals from entry-level training up through
instructor-level certifications in a resort settting.
PADI Career Development Center (CDC)
The PADI Career Development Center (CDC) classification is awarded to PADI Five
Star IDCs and Gold Palm IDCs that conduct additional instructor-level training and
meet the highest requirements for training dive leaders in reaching their educational
and professional goals. PADI CDCs offer career-oriented training to prepare dive
professionals for employment in the dive industry, as well as offering job placement
assistance for program graduates.
* When selecting specialty courses, please also contact your local dive center
or resort as it is possible they may offer the course you desire, but may not be
presently listed in the search criteria.