You Can Help a Lot of People by Going Diving

When disaster strikes – any type: tropical storm, earthquake, tsunami – humanitarian response falls into

. This is recovery from economic disaster, not physical disaster. The hotels are standing, the boats are floating, the compressors are pumping and the lights are on, so there’s no reason to stay away over physical damage concerns. If your favorite destination is open, likely almost everything is likely working, operations are fairly normal and you’ll have a great dive holiday. If you can’t travel, dive locally, train locally and share your love of diving. The more active, enthusiastic divers like us there are, the more inbound dive tourism there will be when travel opens up. This means you’re “priming the recovery pump” for other areas by continuing your education with your local
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Going diving to help diving recover is humanitarian – as Indonesia’s Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati put it, “When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods (my emphasis).” But, it is also part of being PADI Torchbearers and protecting the seas. In the middle of disaster, survival relies on short term thinking, so things like preserving reefs or environmental outreach go on the back burner. It takes economic stability for people to look down the road – advocate for and protect the oceans – so doing whatever we can to drive recovery is important both for now, and for a preferable, sustainable future.

Good diving

Drew Richardson

PADI President & CEO PADI Worldwide

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