Course overview

Discover how the reef transforms after dark with the PADI Night Diver specialty off Mauritius's west coast. Diving from Flic-en-Flac, you learn to manage lights, navigate and communicate at night while encountering nocturnal hunters like octopus, moray eels and lobster on reefs that look entirely different under torchlight. You finish certified to dive safely after sunset.

What you’ll learn

• Plan and organise a safe night dive
• Use primary and backup dive lights effectively
• Communicate with light signals after dark
• Navigate and maintain orientation at night
• Identify nocturnal marine life and behaviour
• Manage buoyancy and the buddy team in low visibility

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (Junior) or 15 for full certification
• PADI Open Water Diver or qualifying certification
• Comfortable with buoyancy and basic navigation
• 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
   Theory and night dives

   Night-diving principles followed by three dives on a sheltered west-coast reef after sunset, then certification.

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