PADI Supports Fijians With Dive Career Scholarships

PADI is persevering with its lend a hand for native Fijians with the provision of legitimate diving profession scholarships.

This system has been going on for more than two a few years and provides coaching at PADI Divemaster level or higher. This year, the four locals who bought the scholarships are:

• Semi Gonerara, PADI Dive Grasp
• Lino Ratubalevu, PADI Dive Grasp
• Craig Warren Luciano, PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
• Tikiko Delai, PADI Assistant Instructor

Commenting on the scholarship, Craig Warren Luciano acknowledged:

“Being a recipient of the PADI Scholarship Program changed into once without a doubt a blessing for me and I’m forever grateful to ranking been a candidate. For me, being a PADI Educated procedure having the opportunity to half the knowledge of the underwater world and all that comes with it, respect taking perfect care of our atmosphere so we are able to continue to admire and offer protection to it. I respect diving and this changed into once the opportunity of a lifetime for me. The classes I carried out below this program gave me the enhance I needed to learn more and growth my profession. I’m now working against getting my IDC Employees Instructor ranking in talk in self belief to also serve come of us that half the identical dream and take care of for scuba diving.”

Per PADI Asia Pacific Territory Director Thomas Knedlik:

“Through our scholarship program, we operate to abet our PADI Participants in offering our diver coaching programs to of us that could maybe maybe presumably otherwise be tiny to getting access to those opportunities. This program is designed to provide existence-altering employment opportunities, foster conservation-minded reef ambassadors, and heighten consciousness of the marine atmosphere at a grassroots level – extra encouraging industry enhance and strengthening our relationships with native communities. We’re not handiest aiming to kick-originate diving careers at a grass-roots level but equally provide them with the discovering out and resources to serve us develop a thousand million torchbearers to come all over and offer protection to the ocean.”