Course overview

Discover the Bay of Bengal after dark with the PADI Night Diver specialty in Pondicherry. As the sun sets over the reefs, lobsters, hunting moray eels and nocturnal reef fish emerge, transforming familiar Pondicherry dive sites into something entirely new.

What you’ll learn

• Plan and execute night dives
• Communicate with dive lights
• Navigate in the dark
• Identify nocturnal marine life
• Manage buoyancy and orientation at night

Prerequisites

• 12 years or older
• PADI Open Water Diver (or equivalent)

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 first night dive

   Cover night procedures then dive a familiar Bay of Bengal reef at dusk.
2. Day2
   Navigation and nocturnal life

   Practise dark navigation and observe nocturnal species over further dives.

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