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Oyster Diving’s PADI Specialty Of The Month: Underwater Navigator
Learning to Navigate underwater is very different to doing it on dry land. With a constantly changing environment that is often unfamiliar it can be a challenge for a lot of divers.
My advice is if you are not confident in your navigational abilities is either to pay for a dive guide or learn how to do it yourself.
Being a good navigator makes you much more confident in the water which in turn leads to less stress, better air consumption, better buoyancy control, and ultimately is safer. I have seen several near misses in my time diving where a diver has popped up to the surface for a quick peek to see where the boat is, only to be narrowly missed by another boat!
The PADI Underwater Navigator course teaches you the main methods to help you navigate around a dive site including natural navigation and using a compass properly.
When people think of natural navigation they often just think of sand and rocks & boulders. But there are plenty of others too such as direction of the sun, sound, depth, marine life and wave direction.
Once you have learned the ways to navigate through the course then it is always a good idea to practice these skills and do them regularly.
We tend to teach our navigation courses at Wraysbury Dive Centre as we find it safe and challenging – due to the visibility there you often have to rely on your compass, and if you do get lost or need to surface there are no strong currents or boat traffic.
There are 4 dives required to complete the course, or if you have already completed the PADI Advanced Open Water course then there are just 3 remaining (as you will alreadty have completed a navigation adventure dive as part of your training).
Oyster Diving are offering a 10% discount on the PADI Underwater Navigator course which can be completed on either the 10-11th October or 24-25th October. Simply enter the code SVNAV on their booking page to receive your discount.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
Free Octopus with every purchase of a SCUBAPRO regulator system
Just in time for the spring season, divers can save money with the FREE OCTOPUS SPRING PROMOTION! Until July 31st SCUBAPRO offers an Octopus for free
with every purchase of a regulator system!
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SCUBAPRO offers a 30-year first owner warranty on all regulators, with a revision period of two years or 100 dives. All SCUBAPRO regulators are of course certified according to the new European test standard EN250-2014.
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More information available on www.scubapro.com.
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