PADI Underwater Navigator Diver Manual

U/W Navigator Manual
Who should take part in this course?
Be the diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where it goes. The PADI special course underwater navigation refines your observation skills and you learn to use your underwater compass more precisely. If you like challenges that reward you richly, then take part in this course and enjoy always being on track with your dives in the future.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers, which are at least 10 years old, can be used on a PADI special course? Underwater Navigation?

What will you learn?

You will learn the hand tools necessary for precise navigation, such as navigating with natural beneath water orientation points and navigating with an underwater compass. In the three dives of this course you will learn:

• Methods to estimate distances underwater.
• Navigate using a compass, with at least five-course changes.
• Marking a specific position or underwater object on the surface, or finding such an object.
• Create an underwater map

It may be that you are on the special course underwater navigation? Get a College Credit? ask your instructor.

In addition, the first dive of this PADI special course can be counted as an adventure dive on your Advanced Open Water Diver Brevet. ask your PADI instructor for the possibilities of calculation.