Course overview

Take charge of your own dives with the SSI Navigation specialty at Nusa Penida, mastering compass and natural navigation. These skills pay off here, where the drifts of Toyapakeh and scattered reef structure reward divers who can hold a heading and estimate distance. The certification builds a fundamental skill and counts towards SSI recognition ratings.

What you’ll learn

• Navigate accurately by compass underwater
• Use natural references and distance estimation
• Run reciprocal and geometric patterns
• Locate and relocate points of interest
• Adapt navigation for current and drift

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10
• SSI Open Water Diver or equivalent certification
• Basic buoyancy control
• 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
   Navigation dives

   Following a compass and natural-navigation briefing, complete the training dives running patterns and estimating distance on a Nusa reef such as Sampalan.

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