PADI Instructor Numbers

[Sam Miller III]

My PADI instructor number is 3 digits, dating from 1960s-?

Oops made a mistake -- it was from the early 1970s..

 

[cerich]

In 97 when I became a padi instr those of us that registered thru the us office got numbers that started with a 1 (I was a crossover so didn't have a padi dm number 157937) the folks from UK that registered or had been dm's from UK had numbers that started with a 3.
I did my idc/ie in Cayman

 

[CrumhornDiver]

FWIW, I got my divemaster # through PADI Asia/Pacific in June 2016. 381###.

 

[CowMan]

Mine is five digit from 1986, 36***.

 

[Damselfish]

so I asked my 34xxx instructor - he thinks he did DM 1980.

 

[Dogbowl]

This is wonderful! Thanks everyone for posting their "digits". Looks like 4 digits are rare and 3 digits are even more so! Congrats to everyone but in particular @Sam Miller III (with only 3 digits) and @oly5050user (4 digits)!

From what I've gathered from the posts thus far:

• 3 digits are from the late 60s (PADI started in 1966)
• 4 digits are from the 70s
• 5 digits/6 digits are from the 80s
• 6 digits are from the 90s to present

 

[sea_ledford]

Mine was 18***, and I crossed over from NAUI to PADI in about 2003.

-Chris

 

[neevo]

I'm 632*** and certified DM in Egypt 2004. Seems hard to pin down the formula behind all the numbers although less numbers does appear to be early:

 

[Wookie]

I became a DM in 1995, number 95855. My wife was just before me 90710. IIRC, PADI Americas was 0-99999, then restarted at 150,000. PADI Asia was 100,000-149,999. Other PADI offices got different series of numbers.

 

[Erich S]

two of my certs has a 3 digit number and the others 4.