PADI Underwater Navigator
Don't lose your way! Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. Finding your way is not a matter of luck! When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a shipwreck, 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.
Course Prerequisites
• PADI Open Water Diver, PADI Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent
• Minimum age 10
What You Will Learn
Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator specialty course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass, including ...
• Navigation patterns
• Natural navigation without a compass
• Compass navigation
• How to “mark” or relocate a submerged object or position from the surface
• Underwater map making
• How to follow irregular courses
• Dive site relocation
• How to estimate distance underwater
Performance Requirements
PADI Underwater Navigator specialty course certification training is typically conducted at the dive site. To achieve certification, you will need to:
• Read the PADI Underwater Navigator manual, watch the PADI Underwater Navigator video and complete the Underwater Navigator Knowledge Review included in your manual.
• Complete (3) Underwater Navigator training dives with a PADI Underwater Navigator Instructor. You will pratice underwater navigation patterns on land before using them during your training dives.
Course Format
PADI Underwater Navigator specialty courses are typically conducted with dives at local dive sites. Your three Underwater Navigator specialty training dives can be completed in one day.
Course Schedule & Cost
PADI Underwater Navigator specialty courses are conducted through the dive stores that I work with, including VIP Diving. Please check their websites for the most current PADI Underwater Navigator training schedule and course costs.
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