Underwater Navigator

Underwater Navigator course

$400

About the Course

Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you're going. The Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater.

Learn How to

  • Use a diving compass
  • Navigate making multiple turns
  • Estimate distance underwater

Take This Course If You Want to

  • Improve your navigation skills
  • Find the boat without surfacing
  • Learn natural navigation clues

Learn How to Navigate Underwater

Overview

It’s easy to get disoriented underwater if you don’t know how to use a compass or natural navigation clues. Learn how to easily find your way back to boat or shore without returning to the surface and avoid long, exhausting swims.

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age: 10
  • Open Water Diver (or equivalent certification)

PADI eLearning

PADI eLearning makes it easy to improve your underwater navigation skills. Start your course online whenever, wherever it’s convenient for you. Work at your own pace, online or offline, using a computer or mobile device. Connect with your instructor for inwater training, or whenever you have a question.

Time commitment: 2-4 hours

With Your Instructor

Practice using a compass on the surface, then apply your skills underwater during three dives. Learn how to estimate distance, follow natural clues and practice finding your way back to the boat or shore.

Time commitment: 1 day

After This Course

The first dive of the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course may count toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification – ask your instructor about earning credit. Every PADI Specialty you earn gets you one step closer to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

Junior Divers