The End, My Friends, The End

So long and thanks for all the fish.

After five years and more than 500 posts, PADI Instructor News is closing its imaginary doors. The PADI Instructor blog is dead. Long live the PADI Instructor blog!

PADI has launched an official, legit PADI Pro blog padiprosnorthamericacaribbean.com for PADI Members in North America and the Caribbean. Please click the link above to visit the new site and sign up for email or RSS updates. See if you can guess which of the new content I'm guest-writing!

We also have blogs for our French-Canadian Pro members and PADI Pros in Latin America.
padiprosameriquedunordcaribbean.wordpress.com - Français

padiproslatinamerica.com - Latin America

While you're at the new blog, check out PADI Instructor News' Greatest Hits - our 10 most popular posts of all time. I was able to import a good chunk of this blog's content history so you can still pull up info such as What's in the IDC crewpak and my research into reef safe sunscreens.

What started in March 2007 as a pet project has unexpectedly grown into a worldwide resource for PADI Members - and I couldn't have done it without your support. In the first year we had 200 subscribers in the Pacific NW and before long I was hearing from course directors in Hawaii, Thailand, and elsewhere telling new instructors - go subscribe to this website! As of today's final post we have over 2,000 subscribers. Sincere thanks to all of you for your comments and recommendations over the years. I've learned a lot and hope you have as well.

- Megan