PADI Night Diver

The Course

Are you looking for serious fun and adventure? Do you want your next scuba challenge? If you want diving with a twist then the PADI Night Diver Specialty is for you.

Diving in the dark is nothing like diving during daylight hours and adds a certain spice and excitement. Your favourite dive site can seem like another world when you explore it in the dark.

This course covers the safety aspects to night diving, the considerations for maintaining buddy contact, regulating good buoyancy control and also communication underwater. Students explore the dark side and the creatures that wake up during the twilight hours!

Course Content

The course consists of a knowledge development session & 3 Open water dives which will cover:

• Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems & hazards of night diving
• Proper procedures for buoyancy control, navigation and communication
• Use of dive lights and buddy-system techniques
• Disorientation and emergency procedures
• Orientation to nocturnal aquatic life

Knowledge Development

Knowledge development is based on a self-study method, allowing you to study in your own time, at your own pace. Home study is backed up by an academic session with a PADI Instructor, to ensure full understanding of night diving theory.

Open Water Dives

Students must complete 3 Open Water dives to certify as a PADI Night Diver. During these dives you will cover correct dive torch use, effective communication, navigational exercises & simulated dive torch failure.