PADI Underwater Navigator

About the PADI Underwater Navigator Course

Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you're going. The PADI Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater. If you like challenges with big rewards, take this course and have fun finding your way.

What You'll Learn

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

Certification Requirements

• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)
• PADI e-learning: 2-4 hours
• Entire course: 2-3 days
• Good physical health
• 10 years of age or older

Learn How to Navigate Underwater

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.

Step 1

PADI E-learning

PADI e-learning makes it easy to fit scuba lessons into a busy schedule. Learn about scuba diving principles and terminology 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 in-water training, or whenever you have a question.

• e-learning time commitment: 2-4 hours

Step 2

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.

Total time commitment: 2-3 days.

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 Master Scuba Diver™. Only 2 percent of divers ever achieve this elite rating.

Available Languages

English, Espanol, Français, Nederlands, 日本語

Visit the PADI Website

Visit the PADI website for detailed course pricing, more information or to book this course.

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