PADIReviews of padi.com

Seriously PADI you charge an absolute fortune for everything from membership to courses and yet your websites/ apps are awful. PADI Club doesn't talk to Scuba earth, the app doesn't talk to PADI Club, all the websites are clunky and very dated. I can't get a new card without spending a fortune, even an electronic one costs an obscene amount and i can't seem to find my diver number or open water info on any app or website easily. If I could I would take my business elsewhere but the trouble is, once you've got us we're stuck with your substandard customer service tools.

Alcoholic instructor - defended. Same instructor takes pictures of women’s breasts and crotch area - defended. Most reputable instructors / dive tour operators don’t have dive masters use cameras - they are there for looking after divers safety - have photographer available for hire. Same instructor/ divemaster had to cancel dives because of drug use - they did cancel dives which was good for safety.... but so unprofessional. Same instructor looses divers - defended. Same instructor insists they can teach course, but aren’t Certified to do so - defended. PADI given all information and pictures. They said I was angry because instructor wouldn’t date me - defended by PADI. Told instructor I would have him arrested and he paid me 4K. This guy is still instructing.Deaths are not reported - divemaster lets divers do “whatever”. One death there were three different interpretations from Captain, and two divemasters. No universal protocol. Have had no issues in Canada and USA but be careful at more touristy places. Put Another Dollar In isn’t interested. I am glad I haven’t tried the elearning. The app is rediculous though.

Good quality learning materials, when it works, which is rare. Completed a couple of courses the online portal and seem to have a worse experience each time. The site will fail to log you in, fail to submit results, just stop working, only load half a page, or just straight up not work. I can't believe that an organisation as large as PADI, that charges so much money, cannot get something so single right.

Received Padi Club membership offer in the mail today, decided to look at reviews online before spending the $29.95 to sign up. Glad I did! So many recent reviews stating the site it pretty much useless. I'm confused, how could a powerful reputable organization like PADI let an important tool slip through the cracks?

A huge disappointment about either the app' and the padi club website.. Being recently certified, I couldn't wait to have my profile updated with my dive logs and my buddies 1. impossible to find my buddy who's been recently certified too (nor someone on the club for already several months..) - impossible to find myself either btw. 2. Having first recorded my logs on Scubaearth, they were not on Padi club. So I recorded them, again! Connexion next day; damn, logs duplicated! But the import is not properly done (e.g. dive site instead of dive title). So I (i) deleted my logs on Scubaearth and (ii) deleted the imported logs on Padi club. Day 2; logs imported again (!!!). Sooo, I deleted my scubaearth account. Fingers crossed this will fix the issue (day 3 being tomorrow). Can't there just be an harmonised tool?? And so what, should we record them on Padi club, or on Scubaearth? And why different details on both sides?? Padi pretending to be one of the largest scuba organisation in the world, please invest a minimum of money to make a serious community plateform, both on your website and as app'.. Until then, I'm not giving any single euro anymore for any Padi commercial product and certainly not for the ecard!!

I have completed my confined water dives last week and am scheduled to go to the Maldives on November 1st to complete my certification. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I find myself struggling to access the online knowledge development area which needs to be completed ahead of this. I have been able to access my courses once previously however since Friday Oct 18th I am unable to access anything past the login page on Firefox, Chrome or internet explorer. When using Microsoft Edge I can access the Open water diver free introduction but nothing else. I cannot even download the course on my ipad as I cannot load the screen past the login screen. No device, no browser, no application (padi library) works! Nothing. How can this be? I am now reviewing several forums and realise that this is a global issue which has been ongoing for years?? Can someone please help me access the course I have paid for to enable me to complete the knowledge area ahead of my trip to ensure this is not a very expensive wasted opportunity. I only have the evenings to complete this as I work daily so I would really appreciate some direction here to get this sorted.

Not having much luck on the e-learning site either. What's the deal PADI? Are you not making enough money to hire someone to fix your website? I mean really. How can you be the lead in the scuba industry and your websites are complete junk. They aren't secure either. My security programs are telling me not to enter any personal info on your sites. Want to make money from your sites? Then I suggest you hire someone to fix everything. My Wordpress website worked better.

Just giving up with it, its just a load of rubbish My cards were there now they are not. In the log you cannot number the dive Or go back in to edit Going back to hand write a log Really is waste of time thought PADI would have some idea how to make useful app ?