COURSE COSTS:#

$300.00 Tuition

• Classroom Review/Practice
• 2 Ocean Dives
• SCUBA Equipment Rental

$150 SDI Digital Materials

• Mobile & Web Versions
• Digital Logbook
• Digital Certification Card
• Certification Processing Fees

$27 Online Booking Fees In Person & Phone Bookings do not incur an online booking fee.

Course Subtotal: $450.00 $477.00 w/ the Online Booking Fees

The payment of Course Fees guarantees TRAINING, not necessarily certification. Certification is EARNED only by successfully meeting all applicable standards and objectives.

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DURATION:

• 3 hour CLASSROOM
• 2 Certification Dives in Monterey

SCHEDULE:

• 6PM - 9PM CLASSROOM (Thursday)
• All Day Saturday (Monterey)

OBJECTIVE: Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you’re going. The Navigation course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater. If you like challenges with big rewards, take this course and have fun finding your way.

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TECHNIQUES/SKILLS:

• Equipment Familiarization
• Equipment Techniques
• Information gathering
• Visualization/Drawing
• Team dynamics
• Course correcting/Dead reckoning
• Triangulation/Range finding
• Natural Navigation v. Instruments

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In our Classroom Session we will cover topics relating to the tools we use for Navigation, basic compass concepts, how we go about gathering information, understanding it, and then putting it to work. You will test your abilities to create a navigation narrative by looking at a 3-D cutaway model and verbally taking your classmates on a journey around a dive site.

Then when we meet in Monterey, we will begin our day on the lawn at San Carlos Beach and do some dry runs of using triangulation, running different shaped courses, working as buddy teams, and creating a basic map.

Then we hop in the ocean and test our accuracy on the first dive by running shaped courses away and back to a buoy. You will be working in teams and challenged by incorporating the task-loadiness of navigation onto your base scuba skills platform. (which is why you are required to have previous cold water experience and Advanced Buoyancy)

Your second dive will be taking your Instructor on a proper tour of the Middle Reef by entering at one side of the beach and exiting the other. Along the way, each student will be responsible for a leg of the journey, and all of you will need to take notes about not just what interesting things you saw but also certain parameters we are interested in such as depths, times, and environment.

Navigation is a challenging and rewarding course and allows a diver to gain confidence as they build their underwater mental and physical maps. Mastering Navigation takes time and practice but will allow you to explore new dive sites safely and have more fun by knowing where you are and how to get home.

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DIVER PRE-REQS:

• Open Water Diver Certification or higher
• 16 years old (parent/guardian release is required)
• Mastery of buoyancy
• at least 15 Cold water dives, and 25 dives total

DIVER RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Advanced Buoyancy
• Finning Techniques

GEAR REQUIREMENTS:

• Certification Card
• Mask & snorkel
• Compass
• Slate & pencil
• Boots & fins (rentable)

GEAR RECOMMENDATIONS:

• SMB & spool/reel
• Dive light
• Diving Monterey: 9 maps of Nautical Adventure by Andrew Middleton
• A Diver’s Guide to Monterey County by Bruce Watkins