PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty

Find Your Way. Explore with Confidence.

The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course teaches divers how to navigate accurately and confidently underwater, turning every dive into a more controlled, safe, and enjoyable adventure. Whether you’re exploring reefs, wrecks, or unknown dive sites, this course equips you with the skills to plan dives, maintain orientation, and return to your starting point with precision.

Through classroom instruction and in-water exercises, you’ll practice techniques for using a compass, natural navigation cues, and distance estimation—all skills that improve your overall dive awareness and efficiency.

What You’ll Learn

How to plan and execute dives using navigation techniques

Use of a compass for precise underwater navigation

Natural navigation skills, including landmark and environmental cues

Estimating distance and return routes underwater

Team navigation and buddy coordination

Why Take This Course?

Gain confidence in unfamiliar dive sites

Improve your safety and situational awareness

Explore more effectively and efficiently

Develop skills useful for recreational, technical, and professional diving

Who Can Take This Course?

PADI Advanced Open Water Divers or equivalent

Minimum age: 12 years old

Divers looking to improve navigation skills and underwater confidence

Explore More, Worry Less

The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course gives you the skills and confidence to dive with precision, making your dives safer, more enjoyable, and more memorable.

Navigate confidently. Dive safely. Explore further.

Required eLearning is not included and must be purchased separately.

Your discounted rate is available when ordered through our provided link.