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Protecting our oceans one dive at a time in local communities around the world. Local Action 🌊 Global Impact 🌎

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#padiaware #citizenscience #savetheocean #sharkconservation #globalsharkandraycensus #diveagainstdebris #earthday #oceanconservation #sharks #diving

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Think you know sharks and rays? Prove it! 🦈 Log 20 different shark and ray species in the PADI Global Shark & Ray Census. The first 200 divers to reach 20 become Pioneers, earning a place on the leaderboard and a limited-edition PADI card. Past dives count. Old footage counts. Any trip, any country. You have seen more than you think. Submit your sightings 👉 Comment 'Pioneer' for all the details to get started. 30 Aug 2026

This Earth Day, skip the infographic. Log a dive instead. Three PADI AWARE citizen science platforms are live right now — and each one turns what you already do underwater into data that protects the ocean. 🦈 **Global Shark & Ray Census** — track the species most at risk 🐠 **Biodiversity Survey** — monitor reef health through key species 🌊 **Dive Against Debris** — document and remove marine debris You don’t need a science degree. You need a logbook and the next dive on your calendar. Comment **DIVE** and we’ll send you everything you need to start. Every dive is a survey dive. 🌊 #EarthDay #CitizenScience #OceanConservation #PADIAWARE #savetheocean 22 Apr 2026

11 million metric tons of plastic enter our oceans every year. That number is designed to make you feel helpless. It shouldn’t. Because when you break it down, this isn’t one giant unsolvable problem. It’s millions of small, specific, trackable ones — and the solutions are already moving faster than most people realise. Half of all plastic ever produced was designed to be used once. A bag used for 12 minutes. A straw. A coffee lid. The same items showing up on Dive Against Debris surveys in every ocean, on every dive. But here’s what changes when a diver logs that debris: it stops being litter and starts being data. Data that tracks what’s entering the ocean, where it accumulates, and what species it’s affecting. Data that feeds the case for a legally binding global plastics treaty — the INC negotiations resuming later this year. The technology to clean our oceans is already working. The policy to stop plastic at the source is within reach. What it needs is evidence. Divers are already providing it. Your next dive can be a survey dive. 💬 Comment DIVE below and we’ll send you everything you need to get started with Dive Against Debris. 🔗 Or find the link in bio → padiaware.org 26 May 2026

Episode 3 of 3. The main event 👀. The one I have been thinking about since before I even booked the flights. 😍 The tiger shark. There is no other shark quite like a tiger 🦈. Broad head. Dark stripes. And this slow, deliberate way of moving through the water that makes it very clear who is in charge here. Spoiler: it is not you. I have wanted to dive with tiger sharks for as long as I can remember. And the Maldives delivered in a way that I genuinely was not prepared for. 🩵 The striped tail terror. The apex of apex predators. And honestly one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen underwater. 🫶🏽 Three episodes. Three species. Three data points. One trip that changed everything. PADI Aware Week, you absolutely delivered. 🙌🏽 06 Nov 2026

Want a chance to in an Insta360 X5 Invisible Dive Bundle? 🦈 Here is how you can enter the PADI Aware Shark Discovery Challenge 👇 1️⃣ Go through your dive footage and find your shark and ray encounters. Old sightings count too! 2️⃣ Upload your sightings with photographic proof through the PADI Aware portal on either app or the website. 3️⃣ Log 20 different shark and ray species to qualify as a Census Pioneer. 4️⃣ Keep track of your progress on the Shark Discovery Challenge leaderboard. 5️⃣ Reacg 20 verified species and you are entered into the prize draw! 🥳 ⏰ Deadline is November 30th 2026. #sharkconservation #sharks #diving #underwaterphotography #underwatervideo 05 Nov 2026

Episode 2 of 3. 🎯 Target: the cutest shark in the sea. 👀 Nurse sharks 🦈 are adorable and I will not be taking questions. These little guys are bottom dwellers. Slow, sluggish, and almost always found wedged under a coral 🪸 ledge looking like they have absolutely nowhere to be. Which honestly is a vibe. Here’s the thing most people don’t know about nurse sharks: they can actually breathe while staying completely still. Unlike most sharks that need to keep moving to push water over their gills, nurse sharks can pump water through their gills on their own! The ultimate rest mode unlocked! Sometimes that’s exactly what you need. 😌 Episode 3 coming soon. And yes, it’s the BIG one. Stay tuned. 👀 05 Nov 2026

I went to the Maldives 🇲🇻 for @padiaware week! But let’s be honest 👀. I also had a list. A species list. And I was not leaving until I ticked every single one off. 🦈 Episode 1 of 3. First target: the reef manta ray at Hanifaru Bay. Hanifaru is one of those places that doesn’t feel real until you’re in it. You drop in and suddenly there are mantas everywhere. Barrel rolling through the water, mouths open, completely unbothered by you! 😍 Three episodes. Three species. One very full heart. Stay tuned. It only gets better from here. 😉 02 Nov 2026

Your dive footage can actually help save sharks. 🦈 Every time we jump into the water, we’re surrounded by incredible marine life. But what if every sighting could directly fuel ocean conservation? You don’t need to be a scientist to make a difference. Next time you drop in, make your dive count. 🌊💙 👉 Comment “Sharks” and we’ll send you the link to submit your sightings & join the challenge! #CitizenScience #SharkConservation #PADIAware #SaveTheOcean 24 Oct 2026

Five Insta360 X5 Invisible Dive Bundles. Twenty species between you and the draw. Every shark and ray you’ve ever photographed counts. Old sightings, new sightings, that blurry nurse shark from 2019. Upload them to the PADI AWARE App or at action.padiaware.org and each verified species brings you closer to Census Pioneer status. Hit 20 different species with photo proof and you’re in the draw. The winners come from the Pioneers only, so this one rewards the divers who go looking. What you could be diving with: the X5, a dive case that disappears completely in 360 shots, the 114 cm Invisible Selfie Stick for third person views underwater, plus a floating hand grip and wrist strap. Stitching stays seamless down to 60 m. The small print that matters: the deadline is 30 November, and every sighting is reviewed before it’s approved, so don’t leave the upload until the last week. Winners will hear from us directly. Your logbook is already full of entries. Time to make them count. 🦈 Prizes sponsored by @insta360 #SharkAndRayDiscoveryChallenge #GlobalSharkAndRayCensus #PADIAWARE #CitizenScience #Insta360 ScubaDiving SharkConservation 22 Oct 2026

Most days, you can’t dive here at all. Saltstraumen, Arctic Norway. The strongest tidal current on the planet pushes 3,000 cubic metres of water a second through a gap a few hundred metres wide. Divers get a short window at slack water, then the ocean takes the channel back. It is one of the richest places in the North Atlantic. Which is exactly why the anglers come. And why so much of their gear never comes back up. Fredric Ihrsen and Borghild Viem at Nord&Ne have spent 2026 going down to look. 72 Dive Against Debris surveys across 11 sites. 96.6% of what they logged was fishing gear. 1,805 lures. That is 24.3% of every lure recorded in the programme worldwide this year, from one Norwegian channel. The next highest reporter logged 413. They are not doing it to tidy up. Saltstraumen has been a marine protected area since 2013, but there is still no general restriction on recreational fishing inside it. The surveys are the argument, and the exhibition outside the dive centre is where that argument meets the anglers face to face. Across 2026, 606 reporting accounts have logged 2,091 surveys in 77 countries. More than 36 tonnes of debris, item by item. Nord&Ne turned 72 of those dives into evidence a government can read. Tag a dive centre near you that is doing this work. And if you want your own dives to count the same way, Dive Against Debris is open to every diver, anywhere, at any depth. 🌊 #DiveAgainstDebris #PADIAWARE #Saltstraumen #MarineDebris #GhostGear 21 Oct 2026

Sharks get the documentaries. Rays get a footnote. Here’s the thing: of the 7 most threatened shark and ray families, 5 are rays. Sawfishes, wedgefishes, guitarfishes, sleeper rays, whiptail stingrays. Flattened by overfishing and bycatch, and barely anyone is talking about them. Part of the problem is where they live. Buried in sand, tucked into murky estuaries, far from the blue-water dives that get all the footage. Scientists can’t monitor what they can’t see. Divers can. Every logged ray sighting gives researchers a data point they didn’t have. That dive where a blue-spotted ribbontail ray barely moved off the sand? That counts. The eagle ray that cruised past on the safety stop? That counts too. The AWARE Global Shark & Ray Discovery Challenge is open. Log 20 different shark and ray species through the PADI Global Shark & Ray Census, and the first 200 divers to complete it become PADI AWARE Global Shark & Ray Census Pioneers. Old sightings count. Random pancake photos count. Comment PIONEER and we’ll send you the details. #GlobalSharkAndRayCensus #PADIAWARE #CitizenScience #Rays #SharksAndRays ScubaDiving DiscoveryChallenge 20 Oct 2026

The cyclone hit in November. Samith was cleaning until July. 🌊 After Cyclone Ditwah flooded Trincomalee, Samith Fernando and his team at Kalpitiya Diving Center went back to the same reefs again and again. 36 surveys. 230 diver participations. 40.9 hours of bottom time. 6,7 tonnes of Debris removed. What they pulled up: 6,244 fishing nets, 4,468 grocery bags, 4,310 trash bags, 2,922 pieces of fishing line, 2,843 bottles, and nearly 7,900 pieces of cloth, towels, burlap and carpet. They also found 95 animals entangled: 68 crustaceans and 27 fish. A reef isn’t cleaned once. It’s looked after. Leave Samith a thank you below. 👇 #DiveAgainstDebris #PADIAWARE #Marineconserveration 14 Oct 2026

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