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OUR AWARDS

Don’t just take our word for it! Diving Adelaide is a multi award winning company. Over the last decade, our dive team has won several PADI, Tripadvisor and Scubapro awards and received continuous high rankings on review sites like Tripadvisor and Google Reviews.

2023 Prince of Whales Award

We have been awarded the Prince of Wales Award in recognition of our support to Australian Defence Force Reservists and in appreciation of our support to Corporal Kym Baldock. Kym has been an integral part of the instructor team at Diving Adelaide and we love having him around. He exceeds the teaching standards on every single course and has been with Diving Adelaide for almost a decade!

Prince of Wales Award 2023

2014 / 2022 PADI Elite Instructor Awards

Half of our current instructor team are PADI Elite Instructors! We’re proud to have some of the most PADI Elite Instructors on the team anywhere in Australia and we can’t wait to see who will receive Elite status for 2023! Our instructors teach by far the most students in Adelaide and 2022 was the ninth year in a row we have received multiple elite instructor awards (which are awarded for instructors who certify more than 50 students a year)!

PADI Elite Instructor Awards 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

2021 Tripadvisor Traveller's Choice Award

We’re proud to present our latest Tripadvisor Award: The Traveller’s Choice Award for 2021! The leafy sea dragon is endemic to Australia’s southern waters and a highlight for travelling divers visiting Australia. The award is for consistently getting 5 star reviews from international travellers diving with us and leaving us reviews! We love receiving your feedback this way and thank you for coming to see the sea dragons of the Fleurieu Peninsula with us!

2021 PADI Outstanding Contribution to Entry Level Training Award

We’re extremely proud of our instructor team, as they’re the most experienced dive instructors in the state! For the sixth consecutive year, Diving Adelaide instructors have certified the most students in South Australia and with that kind of experience, you know you’re getting the training you deserve! We now run 2 open water courses every single week of the year, so you can learn to dive or continue your education whenever it suits YOU!

PADI Outstanding Contribution to Diver Training Award 2021

2020/2021 Scubapro Dealer of the Year Award

As 2020 was an interesting year, Scubapro ended up combining the Dealer of the Year awards for these two years and we couldn’t be prouder to be the most prominent Scubapro dealer in the southern states and the largest Scubapro dealer in the country! This is the fifth (and sixth) year in a row Diving Adelaide have been awarded with the Dealer of the Year award and after winning the Scubapro “Professionalism and Excellence in Customer Service” award for 2014 and 2015 and this top award in 2016-2019, we’re very proud to have won it again in 2020/2021! Deep down we want the best!

Scubapro Dealear of the Year Award 2020-2021

2020 PADI Outstanding Contribution to the Dive Industry

In 2020 Diving Adelaide was invited to join the PADI Advisory Board, where industry leaders discuss the latest and greatest as well as strategies and marketing in the diving industry. We also trained the most divers in South Australia for the sixth year in a row, so 2020 was an amazing year (despite COVID). 

PADI Outstanding Contribution to the Dive Industry Award 2020

2019 Scubapro Dealer of the Year

For the fourth consecutive year we have been awarded the Scubapro Dealer of the Year award and we absolutely love it! Scubapro has been part of our journey right from the start and has stood by us since Diving Adelaide opened its doors in 2013! It has been an amazing journey so far and we can’t wait to see what’s awaiting us in the new decade! Deep down you want the best!

Scubapro Dealaer of the Year Award 2019

2019 PADI Outstanding Contribution to Entry Level Training

We’re incredibly proud of our pro dive team for winning the PADI award for the dive centre that certified the most students in South Australia for the fifth consecutive year! All Diving Adelaide instructors love teaching the next generation of divers and we can’t believe how lucky we are to have them on board! Thank you to all the new divers who learned to dive with us this year and gave us the opportunity to show you the wonders of the oceans!

PADI Outstanding Contribution to Diver Training Award

2019 Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence

We’ve been awarded our third Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence! We couldn’t be happier with the consistent 5 star reviews our divers have been giving us online after their courses and guided dives! As always, our long term goal is to build sustainable long term relationships with our divers and we love receiving your feedback!
Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence 2019

2018 PADI Outstanding Contribution to Entry Level Training Award

You know you’re in good hands when you’re training with the most experienced dive instructors! This is the fourth year in a row that the Diving Adelaide instructors have certified the most students in South Australia. We have always believed in quality over quantity though and we’re proud to show we’ve got the experience to give you the quality you deserve.

PADI Award for Outstanding Contribution to Entry Level Training 2018

2018 Scubapro Dealer of the Year Award

This is the third year in a row Diving Adelaide have been awarded with the Dealer of the Year award for South Australia for being the most prominent Scubapro dealer of the Southern States. After winning the Scubapro “Professionalism and Excellence in Customer Service” award for 2014 and 2015 and this top award in 2016, we’re very proud to have won it again in 2017! Deep down we want the best!
Scubapro Dealer of the Year Award 2018

2018 Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence

Wooop! We’ve just received our second Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence. The certificate is for all the great reviews you have given us throughout the last 12 months and there is nothing we love more than getting continous positive feedback! We love what we do and we love hearing that you do too!
2018 Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence

2017 PADI Outstanding Contribution to Entry Level Training Award

The year 2017 was an exceptional year for us with a growing instructor team running more courses than ever before! The awesome number of people we certified this year, resulted in winning the prestigious PADI Outstanding Contribution To Entry Level Training Award for the third year in a row and we couldn’t be prouder of our amazing instructor team for winning this award again!
PADI Outstanding Contribution to Entry Level Diving Award 2018

2017 Scubapro Dealer of the Year Award

We couldn’t be prouder of taking the Scubapro Dealer of the Year award for the most prominent Scubapro dealer in the Southern States home for the second year in a row. We can’t wait to keep improving and can’t wait to see all the Scubapro innovations in the coming year! We’ve always been in love with our Scubapro Seawing Nova fins, so the design of this award couldn’t be more fitting!

2016 Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence

The review site Tripadvisor awarded us for a certificate of excellence for last year after getting continuous good reviews on the review site throughout the year. We value our customer’s feedback and believe in long term relationships over short term gain.

2016 PADI Outstanding Contribution to Entry Level Training Award

This is one of the two PADI state awards for South Australia for the dive centre that certifies the most students within a full calendar year. We certify hundreds of students each year in a broad range of courses and we’re extremely proud that we have won this award again this year (formerly known as the PADI award for “outstanding contribution to diver education”).

2016 Scubapro Dealer of the Year Award

The Scubapro state award for dealer of the year for South Australia is awarded to the most prominent Scubapro dealer in the state in terms of turnover. After winning the Scubapro “Professionalism and Excellence in Customer Service” award for the previous years, we climbed to the top in 2016 and were awarded the dealer of the year award this year! Deep down we want the best!

PADI Conservation of Underwater Habitats – Green Star Award

We are committed to the conservation of underwater habitats and believe in environmentally responsible business practices. From simple things like bringing our own reusable coffee cups to our (excellent!) coffee shop down the road, to organising underwater clean ups!

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PADI 2015 Outstanding Contribution to Diver Education Award

This PADI award is awarded to the state’s largest dive centre in terms of continuing education certifications (advanced, specialty and professional diver courses). We prefer to invest in our divers by offering a full range of PADI courses from beginners levels all the way up to dive professional levels and are very happy to have received this award for our continuous efforts

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