Underwater Navigation Specialty in Phuket. This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably navigate underwater during a dive. You will learn how to use a compass and natural techniques, estimate distance, basic patterns and how to leave and return to a designated point. You will earn the SSI Navigation Specialty certification after completing this program. Open Water Diver training introduces students to the fundamentals of underwater navigation, but many entry-level divers are content to simply follow their Dive Guide from point to point on the dive. Understanding how to navigate a dive site increases your comfort and confidence during your underwater adventures. Advanced skills enable you and your buddy to safely navigate the dive from start to finish. By using a compass or observing your natural surroundings, you will learn skills necessary to navigate your marine environment. Properly developing these skills requires time and practice, and in-water experience that can only be gained by going diving. Taking SSI Navigation specialty program provides in depth information on the necessary equipment, skills, knowledge and experience required to safely navigate an underwater dive site using both a compass and natural navigation skills. This course ties in well with Underwater search and Recovery Facts Minimum Age: 10 body and arm position Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver Academic Sessions: Online Learning Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional Open Water Dives: 2 Maximum Training Depth: Varies with age Suggested Duration: 6 – 10 hours What you will be learning. Describe the different geographic formations that can be used naturally navigate Understand how different types of illumination can assist you to navigate Describe bottom contour types and how they can assist you to navigate Plan and execute a dive using navigation Navigation using only a Compass. Take the compass heading Make a note of the heading on a slate Realign the north arrow after entry Swim with proper body and arm position Take time to enjoy the dive site Calculate your return setting by adding or subtracting 180 degrees Reset your compass for your reciprocal course Turn your body to realign the north arrow Swim with proper body & arm position Combining Natural and Compass Navigation. Describe how and when to combine natural and compass navigation Perform the steps necessary to return to a dive site using navigation techniques Natural navigation is the easiest and most common form of navigation Combining natural and compass navigation increases your skill level and confidence Allows you to navigate a dive site regardless of the conditions Special Navigation Situations Understand the additional challenges of navigating underwater in limited visibility, at night and in deep water Describe new navigational techniques for diving from the beach Define how to make adjustments to account for currents Sport of Navigation. Describe how to complete multi-course headings Understand what dead reckoning is and how to utilize it as a diver List different search patterns for the purpose of underwater exploration State how to plot a body of water using navigational techniques If you have the Adventure diver “Navigation” recorded in your log book that was part of you advance course, and you’re at least 15 years old, you can enroll in the Navigational training course and this would take only 1 day to complete If you have logged the adventured dive that you completed in the Advanced Open Water Diver / Adventure Diver course credits (at your instructor’s discretion) as the first dive in the Navigation training Course. The scuba equipment you will be using for the dives? We will supply you with all the equipment free for the course including a dive computer along with a full set of basic scuba equipment. A dive light and slate are also recommended. Your Instructor for the course may also suggest other gear needed and deemed appropriate for local diving in Phuket Prior to each dive you will Complete all knowledge Reviews and attend an Instructor Briefing and discuss Pre Dive Procedures and Tasks Why you should book your Perfect Navigation training Course course with us! When you take the Navigation training course with Phuket Dive Tours you are paying for a full supervised experience. We have two fully equipped, registered dive shops with strict guidelines when it comes to your safety. We do not employ Interns, Trainees or inexperienced Diving Instructors on the cheap to take you on Navigation training Course training dives! All in water experiences are conducted by 100% qualified mature Instructors from England, America, and Australia. Our Instructors all have many years’ experience, extensive knowledge and understanding of the local dive sites, each one teaching scuba diving while living in Phuket. All our instructor hold valid visas and work permits. Remember – Dive safe and don’t let just any anyone take you out scuba diving without asking to see their work permit and Instructor cards first. Prices are competitive based on our low overheads, we dont see the need to excessively overcharge customers. Start learning now? You can Sign up Now and get access to Navigation training course digital crew-pack that includes your Navigation manual. Start Read the manual and watch the Navigation video before you start the course and meeting with your Instructor to plan your diving adventures. Prices are competitive based on our low overheads we don’t see the need to excessively overcharge customers Prices start at 8,000 THB and these dives can also be combined with the Nitrox Course To Book this experience send us a direct email with any questions you may have we can then get back to you. Contact us Now
