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The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is the world's largest recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded by John Cronin and Ralph Erikson.  PADI members, including dive centers, resorts, educational facilities, instructors, and dive masters, teach the majority of the world's recreational divers.  PADI operates offices in Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States. The corporate headquarters, PADI Worldwide, is located in California, United States of America. PADI Offices serve more than 130,000 individual professional members and more than 5,300 dive centers and resorts in more than 180 countries and territories. Translations of PADI materials are available in more than 26 languages.  PADI courses range from entry levels (such as Scuba Diver and Open Water Diver) to master scuba diver and a range of instructor certificates. Via their affiliate Diving Science and Technology (DSAT) they also offer various "Technical" diver courses, including decompression diving, Trimix diving and gas blending.  The PADI system is composed of modules with standardized learning objectives divided into theory and practical skills development. Theory is mainly conveyed by way of self-study (books and video) with confirmation of the student's level of mastery in standardized knowledge review sessions with a Scuba instructor. Practical skills mastery is obtained through training in pools and performance evaluations in open water. Upon completion of each course, a certificate is issued.  PADI courses are performance based dive programs, and at the introductory level emphasize practical knowledge, safety and motor skills. The foundations of Diving physics, physiology and chemistry are built during entry level programs. The more esoteric details of these concepts are left for later courses when the diver has gained practical knowledge and experience beyond the entry level. These practices fall within current modern learning philosophies and receive regular updates via peer review.  PADI also promotes the use of other specialty courses and local orientation sessions, which teach divers required new skills and provide ongoing revenue to its members.  In 1995, PADI founded the Project AWARE to help conserve underwater environments. Project AWARE information has been integrated in most courses and divers are offered the chance to exchange their normal certificate for an AWARE-certificate by making a donation to the program when sending in their application for a new certificate.

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