PADI Underwater Navigation Specialty Course
Fine-tune your underwater observation skills and learn to use your compass more accurately.
Who should take this course?
Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you’re going. The PADI Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to use your compass underwater more accurately. If you like challenges with big rewards, take this course and have fun finding your way.
If you’re a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least ten years old, you can enrol in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.
What will you learn?
You’ll learn the tools of the trade, including navigation using natural clues and by following compass headings. During three scuba dives, you’ll practice:
Methods to estimate distance underwater. (kick cycles, elapsed time)
Compass navigation while making at least five turns. (u pattern)
Marking or relocating a submerged object or position from the surface.
Underwater map making. (map dive sites for future dives, depth, topography, distance)
You may be able to get college credit for the Underwater Navigator course – ask your instructor.
The first dive of this PADI Specialty Diver course may credit as an Adventure Dive toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification – ask your instructor about earning credit.
What scuba gear will you use?
Besides your essential scuba equipment, you’ll need a compass and underwater slate. Your PADI Instructor or local dive centre staff may suggest other gear to help you stay oriented, such as marker buoys or lines and reels

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