Underwater Navigator Course Details

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 are having a great time - until it is 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. You learn to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the Nav-Finder.

Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Number of Dives: Three
Navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation
Following irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
Dive site relocation
Materials: You will Need Nav-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Navigator Manual, Underwater Navigation video and the Nav-Finder
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating