Women in Diving

Choosing where to go on your next scuba diving vacation can be tough work. With so many great destinations worldwide, how is a diver to narrow their bucket list down to one great trip? To help [...]

Six years ago, PADI® Women’s Dive Day began as a simple idea – encourage more women to go scuba diving. Passionate divers took up the charge and planned thousands of fun and inspiring events that [...]

As the Assistant Professor at the University of California (UCI), Irvine, Joleah Lamb, has already used her career to make giant strides in the dive world. But that wasn’t before she hit the [...]

We caught up with coral biologist Megan Clampitt, currently working in the Maldives on coral restoration, to find out how scuba diving was instrumental in her career path… Can you tell us a [...]

Building underwater ROVs, diving with whale sharks, and learning about reef ecology from a renowned scientist are just a few of the experiences available to young women thanks to the Black Girls [...]

PADI AmbassaDiver™ Nouf Alosaimi spoke to us about her passion for diving, where it all began and why she’s so passionate about inspiring women in Saudi Arabia to learn to dive… How did you get [...]

A new PADI diver writes about the four lessons she’s learned in her first five months of diving. This is my fifth month as a certified diver, licensed to thrill and happy to be here. At the time [...]

For Hiba Wazzaz, scuba diving has been on her mind for a long time, ‘I remember when I was about 15, my friend went on holiday to Australia and she was telling me how awesome it had been to try [...]

Written by Lisa from Fjords and Beaches I have written before about how inspiring and motivating it is to be a part of the diving community, and that it is a support system I never had imagined [...]

When you think about becoming a dive professional, do you find yourself thinking that it might come at the expense of other career ambitions? When we spoke to clinical psychologist and PADI Staff [...]