Underwater Navigator
Underwater navigation skills are an important part of diving. The skills you learn on this course will increase your confidence and reduce stress and anxiety levels, which will in turn improve your air consumption and give you more time to enjoy the dive instead of concentrating on not getting separated from your dive buddy and/or getting lost.
The skills you learn on this course will provide a good base from which to develop further diving skills, such as wreck diving, search and recovery, and the PADI Rescue Diver course. You will be introduced to natural and compass navigation as well as to using the PADI sextant as an aid in navigating more complex dive patterns.
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
- How to follow irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
- Dive site relocation
- How to estimate distance underwater
Locations
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Stoney Cove
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Vobster Quay
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Wraysbury
Included
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PADI Peak Performance Bouyancy DVD
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Equipment
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Certification (on successful completion of the course)
Prerequisites
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Certified Open Water Diver or equivalent
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Minimum 10 yrs of age (12 for Stoney Cove)
- Complete a medical questionnaire, if you answer yes to any questions on the Medical form you must see a doctor prior to starting the course. A medical form is available to download please click here.
Additional Costs
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Admission fees to dive site
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Air £6