Course overview

SSI Navigation hones your ability to find your way around South Ari Atoll's coral-head reefs and current-swept channels. Using compass and natural cues, you learn to stay oriented on the kandu drifts where the best shark and ray action unfolds.

What you’ll learn

• Compass navigation and reciprocal courses
• Natural navigation from reef features
• Distance estimation underwater
• Search and relocation patterns
• Maintaining orientation in current

Prerequisites

• 10 years or older
• SSI 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
   Compass skills

   Drill headings and patterns on the calm house reef.
2. Day2
   Reef navigation

   Navigate using natural features and relocate set points on a South Ari reef.

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