PADI dive careers in the field of recreational scuba diving

Professional Association of Diving Instructors - PADI - is the world's largest recreational diving membership based organization. The membership includes dive businesses, resort facilities, educational and training institutions, instructor trainers, dive educators, divers, snorkelers and other watersports enthusiasts. PADI certified and approved dive centers, resorts, educational facilities, instructors, assistant instructors and divemasters provide professional career training to the majority of recreational divers worldwide, issuing nearly 1,000,000 certifications every year.

With getting training and obtaining certification from numerous PADI certified dive schools and centers, many located right on some popular sea spa's and resorts, hundreds of the exciting professional scuba diver careers become available opening new life for people both beneath and above the water. PADI professionals promote scuba diving skills making this form of recreational activity available foe people from all walks of life while sticking to the highest dive training and scuba diving safety standards the industry can offer.

A recreational dive professional normally starts his or her career by passing the Instructor Exam (IE) to get Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) rating, which corresponds to Open Water Diver certification.

Scuba Emporium, servicing Chicago metropolitan area with suburbs, Illinois, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, headed by Patrick Hammer, PADI Master Instructor and Course Director.

This dive training facility is one of the oldest in the USA, and it has been on the market since 1974 when they opened their first dive shop in Evergreen Park, Il. Scuba Emporium rapidly became the only PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center in the region, always striving to provide clients the best dive training and equipment possible and to deliver quality courses like entry level PADI Open Water Diver Course, PADI Dive Master course, Instructor training, PADI Adventure diver, PADI Advanced Open Water course, Kids Dive Training program (SASY / Bubblemaker, SASY / Bubblemaker Parties, Seal Master / Seal Team, Junior Scuba Diver, Junior Open Water) and more. From PADI's 70 Platinum Course directors working worldwide, 3 work at Scuba Emporium, while the rest of staff if formed from full-time active divers who are commited to provide highly efficient training employing most advanced equipment, dive gear, methods and techniques to satisfy all diving needs.
Dive destinations offered: Lake Michigan wreck diving, Fort Lauderdale Fl wreck diving, organized dive trips to the Lake Michigan, Florida, and the Caribbean. There are some very flexible travel programs offering wide range of choice for customers and students. Upon a customer's choice any of them can be started in Illinois and then completed with practical dives at any dive location in any part of the world.
Dive products sold: AquaLung, Atomic Aquatics, DeepSee, DUI, Scubapro, Sherwood, Mares, DUI, Sea and Sea and SeaLlife cameras.
Practical dive and scuba diving educational facilities: include a modern in-ground heated pool, as well as 2 classrooms where students are being taught scuba diving theory by some 20 professional diving educators and course directors. Flexible training programs are optimized and adequately scheduledd to save the valuable time of customers. Scuba Emporium's American Council on Education (ACE) college credit recommendation program gives clients opportunity to earn up to 12 college credits. Phone 800-778-DIVE, fax 708-301-0293. Next goes topic on PADI dive careers options for getting trained in Europe, Asia and America.



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