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PADI Naturalist Specialty

PADI Naturalist Specialty

Learn more about the local ecosystem and take a closer look at your next scuba diving adventure.

Prerequisites

10 years of age

PADI Junior Open Water Diver (or equivalent rating from another training agency

Duration

Full Time: 2 Days
Part Time: 1 evening lecture and 1 weekend

Level

Advanced

Learn more about the local ecosystem and take a closer look at your next scuba diving adventure.

What to Expect

We’ll guide you through each step, so you know exactly what’s coming and feel confident before getting in the water.

1

Complete Your eLearning

Learn how to plan night dives, choose suitable equipment and manage the additional risks of diving after dark.

2

Prepare Your Night-Diving Equipment

Set up your primary and backup dive lights, review light signals and organise safe entry and exit procedures.

3

Complete Your First Night Dive

Become comfortable entering the water after dark, maintaining buddy contact and communicating with dive lights.

4

Develop Navigation and Awareness Skills

Practise navigating in limited visibility, controlling your buoyancy and identifying nocturnal marine life.

5

Complete Three Night Dives

Apply your skills over three open-water dives and earn your PADI Night Diver Specialty certification.

About This Course

Take the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course and you’ll see new things, even on the most familiar scuba diving sites. Why? Because when you know more about symbioses, underwater ecology, and aquatic plant and animal habitats, you notice behaviours and see creatures you may have previously missed.

What you will learn:

Key differences between the terrestrial and aquatic worlds
Major aquatic life groupings, interactions and information that dispels myths
Responsible interactions with aquatic life

Includes

Tuition

PADI Naturalist Specialty digital learning materials

2 Sea Dives

Hire of Scuba Equipment

PADI Registration

PADI Naturalist Specialty Certificate upon successful completion

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