“The pledge is a personal commitment to say YES! I’m going to help create balance between humanity and ocean. I’m going to respect the ocean or the underwater world when I travel. I’m going to respect the cultures that take care of the ocean when I travel, when I’m diving, when I’m on vacation, and even in my own community.
PADI’s mission is to create a billion torchbearers to explore and protect the ocean. Local action from an individual person can make a difference. What you do does matter.”
INTERVIEW with KATIE THOMPSON from PADI about SAVE THE OCEAN PLEDGE
Lisa Niver:
Good morning. This is Lisa Niver from We Said Go Travel, and I am so honored to be here today with Katie Thompson from PADI, which is one of my favorite and most important organizations on the whole planet. Hi, Katie.
Katie Thompson:
Hi, Lisa, and I’m honored to be here as well, and that’s a great introduction. Thank you for saying that about our brand, I appreciate that.
Lisa Niver:
Many people know I’ve been speaking at the Travel and Adventure Show this year, and it was my great honor to be able to speak on behalf of PADI, which for anybody that doesn’t know, we’re talking about scuba diving, not a person named Patty. PADI is the professional association of dive instructors, and that’s how I learned to scuba dive, and scuba diving changed my whole life. I really feel so thankful for everything that you do to save the ocean and help people get in the water.
Katie Thompson:
Thanks, Lisa. PADI has been around since 1966 teaching the world to dive, and that actually was our tagline until a couple years ago. We changed it to Seek Adventure, Save the Ocean to show that…we are enhancing and expanding our commitment to the ocean, to ocean conservation, to ocean preservation.
We really like to think of PADI…P-A-D-I, I love that you said that…as a deeper purpose brand. Our PADI dive centers around the world and instructors have issued nearly 30 million certifications. We want to mobilize those divers to take action for the ocean! We’re not only teaching them to dive, we’re teaching them to protect what ultimately they end up loving at the end of the day.
That’s our purpose and what we’re trying to do —to save the ocean– that’s where it all kind of stems from.
Lisa Niver:
It is amazing. I love being under water, I love being with the fish, I love being with the creatures, I love being with my buddy, but it is really important that we take care of our planet, and that’s why we especially wanted to talk about your big project for Earth Day.
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What You Do Matters! PADI Save Our Ocean Pledge
Lisa Ellen Niver
Happy Earth Day! What you Do Matters!
Join with PADI in the Save the Ocean Pledge, learn more in my interview below with Katie Thompson, Global Director, Corporate Social Responsibility at PADI
“The pledge is a personal commitment to say YES! I’m going to help create balance between humanity and ocean. I’m going to respect the ocean or the underwater world when I travel. I’m going to respect the cultures that take care of the ocean when I travel, when I’m diving, when I’m on vacation, and even in my own community.
PADI’s mission is to create a billion torchbearers to explore and protect the ocean. Local action from an individual person can make a difference. What you do does matter.”
INTERVIEW with KATIE THOMPSON from PADI about SAVE THE OCEAN PLEDGE
Lisa Niver:
Good morning. This is Lisa Niver from We Said Go Travel, and I am so honored to be here today with Katie Thompson from PADI, which is one of my favorite and most important organizations on the whole planet. Hi, Katie.
Katie Thompson:
Hi, Lisa, and I’m honored to be here as well, and that’s a great introduction. Thank you for saying that about our brand, I appreciate that.
Lisa Niver:
Many people know I’ve been speaking at the Travel and Adventure Show this year, and it was my great honor to be able to speak on behalf of PADI, which for anybody that doesn’t know, we’re talking about scuba diving, not a person named Patty. PADI is the professional association of dive instructors, and that’s how I learned to scuba dive, and scuba diving changed my whole life. I really feel so thankful for everything that you do to save the ocean and help people get in the water.
Katie Thompson:
Thanks, Lisa. PADI has been around since 1966 teaching the world to dive, and that actually was our tagline until a couple years ago. We changed it to Seek Adventure, Save the Ocean to show that…we are enhancing and expanding our commitment to the ocean, to ocean conservation, to ocean preservation.
We really like to think of PADI…P-A-D-I, I love that you said that…as a deeper purpose brand. Our PADI dive centers around the world and instructors have issued nearly 30 million certifications. We want to mobilize those divers to take action for the ocean! We’re not only teaching them to dive, we’re teaching them to protect what ultimately they end up loving at the end of the day.
That’s our purpose and what we’re trying to do —to save the ocean– that’s where it all kind of stems from.
Lisa Niver:
It is amazing. I love being under water, I love being with the fish, I love being with the creatures, I love being with my buddy, but it is really important that we take care of our planet, and that’s why we especially wanted to talk about your big project for Earth Day.
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