• Contest Period: 1 June to 31 October 2025
• The Grand Prize Winner will be awarded a dive trip of a lifetime to Fiji for two, including:
  • Roundtrip airfare for two to Fiji
  • Six nights' accommodation, double occupancy in an air-conditioned Paradise Room at Paradise Taveuni Resort
  • 4 days of Two-Tank Boat Dives and FREE Shore Dives until 5:00pm on boat dive days
• The Second and Third Place Prize Winners will receive one recreational PADI eLearning course of their choice.
• Participants are entered into the contest by:
  • Signing up using the form on this page above for one entry to win.
  • Writing a short story on "Why do you want to become a PADI Master Scuba Diver?"
  • For every PADI course/rating/membership completed within the Contest Period, the participant will receive the following number of additional entries to the contest:
    • PADI Master Scuba Diver rating – 10 entries
    • PADI Rescue Diver certification – 5 entries
    • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification – 3 entries
    • PADI Specialty Diver certification - 2 entries
    • PADI Open Water Diver certification - 1 entry
    • PADI Club member - 5 entries
    • PADI Certification Card purchase - 2 entries
    • Take the Save the Ocean Pledge - 1 entry

For the full contest terms and conditions, click on one of the options below: 

• Master Scuba Diver Challenge Terms & Conditions - English
• Master Scuba Diver Challenge Terms & Conditions - Other Languages

10% discount available for select PADI eLearning courses on padi.com. Valid 1 per customer. Code expires 30 days from email sign-up date. 

Your PADI certification does not expire. Enrolling in PADI’s scuba refresher course (ReActivate) is recommended if you haven’t been diving in awhile, but not mandatory. Dive shops appreciate seeing a recent ReActivated date on your certification card because it means you’re ready to dive in. 

Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver and more than a dozen of PADI’s most popular specialty courses are available online. You can start your training at home and finish with a dive shop near you, or on vacation. The choice is up to you.

Earning a certification while traveling is a great way to have an authentic local diving experience. Ask the local dive center or resort what their destination is known for (drift, wreck, night, etc.) and if they offer any distinctive specialties.

Or, show your support for your local diving community by earning a certification close to home.  Learn about your local ecosystems by taking an Underwater Naturalist or Fish Identification course, or prepare for your next trip by taking PADI’s most popular specialty - Enriched Air Nitrox. 

More than 75 percent of new divers say they want to improve their scuba skills by taking additional classes, but fewer than 40 percent ever do so. When asked why, many say, “I didn’t feel ready.”

What these divers don’t realize is, the Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to help new divers improve their skills and build confidence. In this course, you’ll get better at the skills you learned in your Open Water Diver course as you try new diving experiences (photography, wreck diving, etc.) with a helpful instructor by your side. If the word “advanced” seems intimidating, think of it as a specialty course sampler instead. 

Speaking of specialties, many new divers get a lot out of the Peak Performance Buoyancy class and the Underwater Navigator course. You could try one or both of these specialties first, and earn credit towards your Advanced Open Water certification along the way. Ask your PADI Instructor for more information.

The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training. Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. 

The path starts with earning a PADI Open Water Diver certification, followed by PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications). You also need to earn five PADI Specialty Diver certifications