Course overview

Stop relying on your guide and find your own way underwater with the PADI Underwater Navigator specialty in Port Blair. On the reefs around Chidiyatapu you master compass use, natural navigation and distance estimation so you can locate sites and return to your exit point with confidence. The certification makes you a more independent and useful dive buddy in the Andaman Sea.

What you’ll learn

• Navigate accurately with a compass
• Use natural references to find your way underwater
• Estimate distance by kick cycles and time
• Follow patterns such as squares and reciprocal courses
• Relocate a submerged object or site
• Mark and return to a chosen exit point

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10
• PADI Open Water Diver or higher (or qualifying certification)
• Comfortable with basic buoyancy
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

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
   Compass & natural navigation

   Cover navigation theory and complete compass, natural-reference and distance-estimation dives on the reefs near Chidiyatapu, finishing with a search-pattern dive to certify.

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