Specialty Classes
PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty
What is the Underwater Navigator Specialty?

The Underwater Navigator course will teach you the skills needed to determine your location under water and make your dives safer and more enjoyable. Navigation skills help you reduce anxiety, avoid long surface swims, improve your dive plans, avoid buddy separation and conserve air.

What do you learn?
  • Navigation Patters
  • 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 Relocaiton
  • How to estimage distance underwater
What does the course include?
  • 1 classroom session
  • 3 dives *

* One of the dives from the PADI Advanced Open Water Course may be credited to the 3 dive requirement but AOW is not a prerequisite


PADI courses offer the most comprehensive and modern diver training available in the world today. PADI courses are the only scuba courses to be recommended by the American Council on Education for college credit hours.

Aaron's courses are approved for veteran's benefits.