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Navigation Speciality

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.

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.

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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’ll 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.

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