Underwater Navigator

Be the diver everyone wants to follow, and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.

 What you will learn:

• The benefits of mastering underwater navigation, techniques for estimating distance underwater, and the use of natural navigation references and techniques.
• Common patterns for underwater navigation, compass use, techniques to avoiding errors when using a compass, the use of permanent shore landmarks to relocate underwater sites, and the use of compass bearings to fix and locate underwater sites.
• Additional navigational tools and instruments and techniques to use them effectively while navigating multi-heading courses underwater.

Prerequisites:

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver
• Must be at least 10 years old

Required Materials:

• PADI Underwater Navigation Manual
• Nav-Finder Slate

Course Fee: $75.00

Number of dives: Three open water training dives over two days*

*This a PADI training standard