The PADI, or Professional Associations of Diving Instructors, is the world's largest recreational diving organization, offering members special information, offers, and access to instruction and coaching. Driven by a love of diving, a love of the sea, and a respect and love for undersea nature and water life, PADI holds a strong presence in every diving community across the country. If you are traveling and are a diver of beginning, intermediate, or advanced levels, your first step should be to consult PADI. Malaysia PADI scuba diving centers, for instance, will offer diving courses, direct you to ideal diving sites, and simply make your overall experience a grand and memorable one.

Other PADI courses available are PADI IDC courses, which teach expert divers to become instructors. As a PADI diving instructor, you can help teach others to develop the same passion you have for the sport, helping them learn how to be safe and how to make the most of each dive. In this way, you could even grow to make a living doing what you love most.

The waters around the coast of Malaysia, the South China Sea, are warm and still, with masses of underwater life, ranging from muck living frogfish to tiny seahorses to giant barracuda. Imagine being able to operate in this area as an instructor sanctioned by the PADI, open water, shallow water, and muck diving being some of the diving courses you could teach. With a backing from the PADI, you would carry the credence and respect as a reputable diving instructor and enjoy success in a number of diving areas all over the world.

If your sights are set on Borneo, you are not alone. This beautiful island and the smaller islands around it offer some of the most rewarding diving experiences in the world. You can choose from a series of villages, towns, and resorts to set up shop. You may choose to start your own diving center or align yourself with an existing establishment. The Malaysian portion of Borneo is particularly rife with diving opportunities, partially due to the Tunku abdul Rahman National Park that is actually a series of five small islands just a short boat ride off the coast of Malaysia. Around these islands, you will find shallow waters with beautiful reefs and a variety of sea life; this area is a great place to give beginning instruction because the shallow waters are still and safe, and the land is close by.

As a diving instructor through PADI, Malaysia can become your home, or your home away from home. No longer will diving be a vacation activity; it can be your career, and your means of making a living. Not only will you be doing what you love every single day, but you will be living in one of the most beautiful places in the world, where the temperatures seldom dip below 28 degrees Celsius, and the waters are teeming with life and beauty.