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PADI Course Director Jo is awarded Platinum Status for 10th consecutive year

We are celebrating again at The Go Pro Family! PADI has awarded our PADI Course Director Jo Armitage Platinum status for her contributions to professional training and educational excellence during 2022. This year marks the tenth consecutive year she has achieved this status. This milestone comes just a year after The Go Pro Family’s other […]

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PADI Awards Angel Platinum Course Director Status For 15th Consecutive Year

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We are celebrating at The Go Pro Family this month. PADI has awarded our Course Director, Angel Navarro, Platinum status for his contributions to professional training and educational excellence during 2021. That alone is a great achievement, but we are celebrating even more this year because it marks the fifteenth consecutive year, he has achieved

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Our Go Pro Family is growing!

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Exciting news about our new IDCs in Mexico and new Divemaster courses, plus how to access your FREE Introduction to Divemaster eLearning The last few weeks have been really exciting for The GoPro Family. Firstly, we announced our collaboration with Takata Experience. They are the only PADI 5-star IDC Center in Mahahual and the only

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The Ripple Effect – Your actions do make a difference

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After watching the Seaspiracy documentary recently, and reading the doom and gloom stories in the environmental news these days, I have to admit I was feeling pretty despondent about the upcoming Earth Day. I was in two minds whether we should post something on our social media pages for fear of seeming hypocritical or to

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Tips for Teaching Children to Dive

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Teaching children. Any parent who has been struggling to home-school their child in the pandemic lockdowns will know how tough it is. (Hey, school teachers – remember what we said about you having 6 weeks off every summer? We take it all back – we don’t envy your job!) But what about teaching kids to

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Scuba Diving versus Freediving – Which is Better?

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To bubble, or not to bubble? That is the question. I am both a scuba diving and freediving instructor and a question people often ask me is “Which do you prefer?”. It’s also a question that is really hard to answer. Whilst both freediving and scuba diving have their obvious similarities they are also very

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Why PADI’s eLearning means that now is a great time to start your IDC

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If you are reading this then you may be thinking about becoming a PADI instructor and are probably worried about whether this is the right time. You have probably been planning your PADI progression for a long time and want to turn your dream of teaching scuba diving into reality. But Covid-19 (aka the Coronavirus)

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Our Tips for Preparing a Dive CV

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Are you a new PADI Instructor looking for your first job? Or an experienced dive-pro planning to relocate to another beautiful diving destination? Preparing a diving resume can be something that a lot of people get stuck with. My IDC candidates often ask me for tips or suggestions on preparing a good CV, so I

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Do TV wildlife shows encourage bad diving habits?

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TV wildlife documentary presenters are a thriving species, doing almost as well as TV chefs, and seem to be multiplying at an unprecedented rate. If you switch on Discovery Channel or Animal Planet you have a pretty good chance of seeing someone grappling with an animal before shoving it as close to the camera as

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Are Diving Careers Like Marriages?

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For my latest blog I will attempt to do something which is very unlike me – talk about relationships. As any of my long-time friends will know, you don’t ask me for relationship advice because I’m just not very good at that kind of stuff. But bear with me, as this blog is about what

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