Learning to Dive

Four-day tech summit at world's deepest dive pool will bring together industry experts and innovators for workshops and presentations

PADI announces its 'Seek Adventure, Save the Ocean Together' referral campaign encouraging divers to recruit friends and family to diving

PADI launches a new Master Scuba Diver Challenge, offering free renewals for Members and a dream trip to the Maldives for scuba divers

PADI has announced that its EMEA dive centres and resorts are inviting divers to sign up for its newly launched Divemaster Internship

RAID has launched a new full-face mask programme specific to the OTS Guardian and Spectrum full-face masks

PADI is calling on its members around the world to register more events celebrating Women's Dive Day's tenth anniversary in July

Nitrogen narcosis is often thought of as slightly comic, but scuba divers are often unaware of the potential severity of its impact

Dive training agency RAID expands its breath-hold training programmes with new Static Apnea and Advanced Freediving courses

PADI and GoPro have teamed up to create a GoPro Distinctive Specialty Course, with training for the camera, accessories and video editing app

Night diving can by turns be exhilarating, luminous, beautiful – and panic-inducing. Mark 'Crowley' Russell explains why

Visualisation can be used to practice skills without being physically present, but is often overlooked as part of recreational scuba diving

Top of the panic-inducing skills while learning to scuba dive is removing, replacing and clearing a mask underwater - here's how to prevent that from happening

Experience a real challenge this spooky season by learning how to survive a zombie apocalypse, master underwater magic or become a CSI diver

Small problems can rapidly escalate into very big problems underwater, so it's essential that you raise any concerns you have before diving

Freediving and Olympic breathing coach, Emma Farrell, shares top tips and two exercises to help improve underwater breathing for divers

PADI has issued a statement addressing the importance of diver safety as a response to the recent settling of a court case involving the death of a student diver

The typical 'Advanced Open Water' scuba course is not meant to be 'advanced' but an important advancement of our entry-level skills

There's an alphabet soup of dive training agencies out there - so which one is best, and how do you choose?