Underwater Navigator

The compass. A marvelous piece of alchemy brought back by MARCO POLO from Cathay on his journey of a lifetime. If not, this is your lucky day. The Underwater Navigator Specialty course was designed just for you!!

Why become an Underwater navigator

Underwater navigation is a particularly usefule skill when diving in our beautiful Puget Sound waters, as it lets us locate quickly and easily those favorite underwater dive sites we want to show our friends. When activities are specialized, such as, limited visibility diving, night diving, wreck diving and search and recovery diving, having good skills in Underwater Navigation will make the dives safer and more enjoyable.

Good navigation skills will reduce confusion, anxiety and allow you to avoid long surface swims at the end of the dive, increase effectiveness in dive planning, dive execution and conserve air as you take the shortest route to your favorite wolf eel den.

What will I do?

During your PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you'll learn underwater navigation dive procedures, techniques, planning, organization and potential problems. You'll also be introduced to natural navigation, underwater patterns, distance estimation and further your compass navigation skills. You'll put these into practice during your three open water dives.

How long will it take?

1 Knowledge Review session and 3 Open Water dives over 1 – 2 days.

What do I need to start?

• PADI Open Water or Jr. Open Water Diver
• Minimum age: 10

Required Materials

• PADI Navigation Crew Pak.

Become a Master Scuba Diver?

Show off your training and knowledge by receiving the Master Scuba Diver certification. This is the highest recreational diver level in the PADI system of diver education. It indicates you have received a significant amount of training and experience in a variety of dive environments. Completing this specialty brings you one step closer to achieving this sought after certification.

Our Philosophy

At Bubbles Below we are committed to encouraging the growth of not only divers but local opportunities for the advancement of the sport of SCUBA diving in the greater Northwest.

Everyone who is involved with our dive center is committed to not only a buddy system but that your uddy or student is always first. We know that:

• Nothing in the water is as important as my buddy.
• Keeping myself and my buddy safe means there is always another day to dive.

Fun and safe diving are the only way to dive.