Padi underwater navigator specialty course

Description

Build your underwater navigation skills with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty Course at Orange County Divers. Learn to combine compass techniques with natural landmarks to follow planned routes, estimate distances, and find your way back to your starting point.

Through knowledge development and three instructor-led training dives, you’ll practice navigation exercises that strengthen your observation, planning, and underwater awareness.

Whether you’re exploring a Southern California reef, navigating through kelp, or diving on vacation, this course helps you become a more confident and capable dive buddy.

Features

• Includes three instructor-led underwater navigation training dives

• Develop practical compass and natural navigation skills

• Practice following headings and navigating underwater patterns

• Learn methods for estimating distance underwater

• Strengthen route planning and situational awareness

• Includes course learning materials, tuition, and certification processing

What You’ll Learn

• Underwater compass use

• Natural navigation techniques

• Distance estimation

• Reciprocal headings

• Square and triangle navigation patterns

• Underwater route planning

• Recognizing and using natural landmarks

• Navigating toward planned entry and exit points

• Improving observation and awareness throughout a dive

Your instructor will help you combine these techniques so you can use multiple navigation references when exploring a dive site.

Course Prerequisites

To enroll, you must:

• Be at least 10 years old

• Hold a PADI Junior Open Water Diver, PADI Open Water Diver, or qualifying certification from another recognized training organization

Contact info@orangecountydivers.com if you need assistance confirming your eligibility.

What’s Included

• Three instructor-led training dives

• PADI Underwater Navigator learning materials

• Professional instruction

• Course tuition

• PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty certification processing upon successful completion

Training with Orange County Divers

Southern California’s kelp forests, rocky reefs, and sandy bottoms offer opportunities to practice recognizing underwater landmarks and following compass headings.

Our instructors emphasize practical exercises that connect your navigation knowledge with the decisions you make during a dive. You’ll work on planning routes, monitoring your surroundings, and checking your progress along the way.

What Happens Next?

1. Enroll with Orange County Divers.

2. Contact info@orangecountydivers.com to coordinate your training schedule and learning materials.

3. Complete the required knowledge development and three instructor-led training dives.

4. Successfully meet the course requirements to earn your PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty certification.

Course Details

• Training agency: PADI

• Course: Underwater Navigator Specialty

• Format: Knowledge development and practical dive training

• Training dives: Three

• Minimum age: 10

• Prerequisite certification: Junior Open Water Diver, Open Water Diver, or qualifying certification

• Learning materials: Included

• Course tuition: Included

• Certification processing: Included

• Provider: Orange County Divers

Ideal For

• Certified divers developing their underwater navigation skills

• Divers who want more practice using a compass

• Buddy teams improving their route planning

• Divers preparing for navigation-focused activities such as search and recovery

• Local and traveling divers seeking greater underwater confidence