Underwater Navigator
The PADI Underwater Navigator Course
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. 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.
ONCE YOU HAVE SIGNED UP FOR CLASS:
- Come into the store to purchase and pick up your book.
- Read and complete the ENTIRE book.
- Students must provide ALL of their own SCUBA quality equipment. Including mask, fin, boots, snorkel, BCD, regulator, 7mm exposure suit, hood, gloves, tanks, weights, compass, line and reel, surface marker buoy and dive computer for all sessions of the course.
- Rentals are available, student discount applies towards rental equipment.
Availability: Contact us for booking information
What You Learn
- 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
- Dive site relocation
- How to estimate distance underwater
Prerequisites: PADI Open Water or equivalent.
Required Book: PADI Underwater Navigation Manual ($42.24 w/student discount and tax).
Required Equipment: Exposure protection for diving conditions (wetsuit or drysuit, hood & gloves for local conditions, wetsuit for warm water)BCD, regulator with octopus and gauges, mask, fins, snorkel, tank, weights, etc... Rentals available for everything except mask, fins and snorkel.
Underwater Navigator $200 plus book
Consists of 3 dives at Haigh Quarry
