PADIReviews of padi.com

Seems like instructors are shady! I’ve had 2 PADI dives and both missed out key skills, no buddy check and neither mentioned about a safety stop or anything. One was in turkey and the other in gran caneria. I did my open water with them and ended up redoing it elsewhere as I didn’t feel safe diving

I actually had a good experience with PADI PADI is just a system but the quality delivered at the end of the day depends greatly on the school and the instructor you are going to work with. If you find a good instructor you can trust, you are going to have a great experience regardless of the system. I passed my Open Water, Advanced and Rescue in Switzerland. I also did altitude dives, night, navigation and dry suit. I enjoyed all of these dives and I always felt safe. But again, I had an amazing instructor. I never used the online app. The theory was done face to face around a table in small groups of 3 to 4 students. Diving was a mix of deep swimming pool and various lakes in the area.

Opted to do the e-learning as wanted to save the paper and thought it would be better. I wish I had not. Navigating around the site is a mind field and still have not be able to get to the touch tests. Customer service is non excistance. When you do manage to contact them they also seem not to have a clue how to navigate around the site. Also when they do respond on average in a week time they just ask you questions you have already given. So frustrating. Padi invest some money and get some proper developers and testers. Also educate your customer service staff.

I'm currently doing the PADI eLearning. Just stay away. Much of the course is incomprehensible because directions don't really exist. There is absolutely no support whatsoever if there is a technical problem, which I had. My dive center tried to replace the materials that were lacking from the online platform, but that made it even more confusing because nothing coherently connected. I tried PADI's customer support and it is worse than a joke. After reams of emails, screen shots, and asking for another product the dipshit just kept sending the same instructions without even looking at the emails I wrote. I think their online platform is such garbage and the organization so disjointed that they are completely overwhelmed with support issues and can't deal with any of it.

I am myself a diver disinterested in the politics of diving. But you should be aware of this: if you chose PADI, you chose the monopoly that is interested in one thing, and one thing only: money. Mind you, this is a comment about the company, not the individual dive stores trapped in the system. But if you ever have the choice, find a different dive center, CMAS and the like. You will also want to do this to avoid personal frustrations, because all of PADIs learning modules are now e-learning modules. They will tell you this is for your own good, to be flexible, etc., but in reality it is just another strategy to earn extra bucks. You are your own teacher, which they sell you for the convenient price of 85 US$ (at present). What do you get for this - an entirely useless app - so confusing that you will wonder time and time again how they could even consider launching this thing. Essentially, it is a solid block of text with a few colourful pictures in it, along with videos that fail to provide any sense of pedagogy or learning focus, and, of course, packed with sales' arguments. The German version we used is incomprehensible in parts - I have been a diver for 20 years, and I thought I had seen it all. Yet, I was unable to even understand what they "want" in terms of an answer. Anyway, this is still harmless stuff, because when you are through with all of their exercises, chapter exams and final exam - all of which require renewed registration - the real frustration will be the realisation that none of your results were registered. So, could you do it all over again, with a new password and code? Frankly, they should pay any diver for using this worthless format.

the platform is Shiiite! they haven't moved on from the 1990s. given the £££ they charge, outstanding. ended up not doing the course.

Stealing our money. Did the dive master. Afterwards they contact me. Can approve my efr. My efr is Danish government approved. But not to padi. So now I have to pay to get a padi approves PADIEFR course... money hungry... never representing padi again!!!

PADI sucks I will never be associated with them again I have a master certification through them and decided 10 years ago to get my dive master certificate. I had my master card delamanate almost the day I received it they wanted 60 some dollars to replace something that was clearly a defect . I run a travel agency and that was the main reason I wanted the certificate mainly if someone wanted a specialize corse I could offer that to them . Because of there rediculas outrageous price for a replacement card it cost them hundreds of new students . I tell everyone new people avoid PADI I get asked all the time for recommendations I tell people any agency will do you well with the exception of PADI and tell them I would avoid them at all cost.i guess with an extraordinary amount of 1 star reviews that speaks for it self . I even posted on my face book and other media that I have nothing to do with anything associated with PADI .