Course overview

Experience Nusa Penida's reefs after sunset with the SSI Night Diving specialty, learning the planning, lighting and navigation skills that make night diving safe and rewarding. By torchlight a sheltered Nusa reef reveals hunting eels, crustaceans and behaviours never seen by day. The certification qualifies you to conduct night dives and counts towards SSI recognition ratings.

What you’ll learn

• Plan and conduct night dives confidently
• Handle dive lights and use night signals
• Navigate and keep buddy contact in darkness
• Recognise nocturnal marine life and behaviour
• Manage night entries, exits and orientation

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10 (Junior) or 15 for Night Diving
• SSI Open Water Diver or equivalent certification
• Comfort with basic navigation and buoyancy
• 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
   Night dives

   Following a lights-and-signals briefing, complete your night training dives on a sheltered Nusa reef as nocturnal life emerges.

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