Course overview

Combine diving with protecting the ocean through PADI AWARE conservation specialties at Nusa Penida, a region whose mantas and Mola Mola depend on healthy reefs. Courses such as AWARE Fish Identification, Coral Reef Conservation and Dive Against Debris turn your dives at sites like Sental and Manta Point into citizen-science contributions. You earn a recognised conservation specialty while learning to dive responsibly.

What you’ll learn

• Identify common reef fish and coral families
• Understand threats to coral reefs and how diving impacts them
• Conduct underwater debris surveys responsibly
• Apply low-impact, reef-safe diving practices
• Contribute observations to marine-conservation efforts

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10 to 15 depending on the specialty
• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver for in-water specialties
• Some specialties such as Coral Reef Conservation have no diving prerequisite
• Diver medical clearance where indicated

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Conservation in action

   Cover the AWARE knowledge development, then put it into practice on a conservation dive such as a fish-ID or debris survey at a Nusa reef like Sental.

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