Taiwan Dive Center (TDC) is a PADI 5 Star Career Development Centre based in Kenting, Hengchun, at the southern tip of Taiwan - the only PADI CDC in Taiwan with a Platinum Course Director, and the only PADI Green Star dive centre in the region. Founded in 1980 as a commercial diving operation, it has grown into a certified B Corporation running a dive resort, a shop and courses from Discover Scuba Diving through professional Divemaster and Instructor level, alongside marine-conservation programmes (beach and reef clean-ups, a 'Blue Fund'), a round-Taiwan dive safari and branches on Green Island, in Kaohsiung and at Xiaoliuqiu. Kenting's warm, coral-rich waters off Houbihu and the west coast are diveable year round from shore and by boat.