Underwater Navigator Speciality Course

Ever wondered how your dive guide or instructor doesn’t (usually) get lost during a dive? Well, this could be luck, or it could be that they’ve learned to navigate using a compass and natural features.  

The path to becoming a PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality course consists of two steps:

1. PADI eLearning: 2-4 hours
2. Participate in 3 open water dives, 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.

PADI eLearning® on your own, from the comfort of your home, read, watch videos, and take quizzes at your own pace to develop knowledge of scuba rescue procedures, before you work with one of our PADI Instructors. 

Open water dives are required to complete the PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality course, with Go Dive training, these take place at the National Diving Centre at Stoney Cove in Leicestershire.

These 3 dives usually take place over a single day at the weekend.

Skills you will learn:

•   Use a diving compass
•   Estimate distance underwater
•   Navigate making multiple turns
•   How to navigate without a compass (Natural navigation)
•   How to mark or relocate a submerged object or position from the surface

As well as these dives being an opportunity for you to show your instructor your mastery of the skills and procedures, you will also gain more experience diving and the basics of how to look after other divers . 

On successful completion of these dives, you will be a PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality .

We will provide all the equipment you need for the training.

To enrol on a  course you need PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level-certification) 10 years or older.

 eLearning Course - See Price List.

This is the PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality Course offered by Go Dive Training. It typically takes place over a single day at the weekend, the open water dives are held at Stoney Cove.