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2.7M+
pieces of marine debris logged by 100,000 divers in 120 countries
44,000+
marine animals freed from entanglement
$800,000+
to 80+ community-led projects in 17 countries
100+
shark and ray species with increased protection measures

One-off gifts fund projects.
Monthly gifts fund the force.

You power the work between the headlines: the citizen science, the policy seats, the community grants. Give whatever amount works for you, and change or cancel it any time.

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Your thank you: give $10 or more a month and we send you the exclusive PADI AWARE Dive Buddy Mask Strap, worn on every dive.

Protect the Blue Heart

For many of us, the ocean isn't just a place. It's home, a classroom, and a source of life-changing adventure. The waters that shaped your journey face growing pressures: warming seas, overfishing, plastic pollution, habitat loss.

A legacy gift ensures the underwater world that shaped your story continues to inspire the people who follow you into it. It keeps the work funded long after your last dive.

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The PADI Blueprint for Ocean Action: A Global Plan for Ocean Protection

Our shared conservation framework with PADI: a measurable, action-driven plan mobilizing divers, dive centers and partners against the ocean's most urgent, human-driven challenges, through the programs below.

Trusted to deliver

Marine Debris

Marine Debris

Marine Protected Areas

Marine Protected Areas

Vulnerable Marine Species

Vulnerable Marine Species

Marine Habitat Restoration

Marine Habitat Restoration

Community Grants

Community Grants

SEE THE BLUEPRINT

They didn't wait to be asked.

A gaming community raised over $14,000. A teenager took on plastic. Dive centers turned their house reefs into fundraisers. Your way counts too.

Leading the way

Every Action Shapes
the Future of Our Blue Planet

The Conservation Action Portal is where Ocean Torchbearers log the work: debris removed, sharks and rays sighted, surveys completed. Take action, track your contributions, and watch the collective record grow.

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Every gift keeps this work in the water.

Your gift helps transform the world's largest diving community into the world's most powerful force for ocean conservation.