Course overview

After dark on South Ari Atoll's reefs, parrotfish sleep in mucus cocoons, hunting morays emerge and bioluminescence sparkles in your wake. The PADI Night Diver specialty teaches you to dive safely with a torch on the atoll's calm house reefs.

What you’ll learn

• Night-diving entry and exit procedures
• Light signalling and buddy communication
• Navigation and orientation in darkness
• Controlling buoyancy at night
• Identifying nocturnal marine life

Prerequisites

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

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
   First night dive

   Learn light handling and signals on a calm house-reef night dive.
2. Day2
   Night navigation

   Complete the remaining night dives with navigation and nocturnal life ID.

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