PADI Night Diver

Even your local dive site offers a whole new adventure by moonlight! To take advantage of this extraordinary specialty, you’ll need to be at least PADI Open Water Diver (PADI Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) and 12 or older.

Go night diving and see the underwater world in a whole new light - a dive light

This course is designed to be an introduction to night diving and to help the student divers develop the skills, knowledge and techniques necessary to safely participate in night-diving activities in a fun and enjoyable way.

This course is primarily practical in content, with the minimum of self study academic / theory instruction. The focus is being securely fixed on the practicalities of safe diving at night!

The course normally runs over two days/nights, dependent upon dive site location and logistics.

PADI Night Diver. When you go night diving you'll see a whole new world. Even your local dive site takes on a new personality at night, as many underwater creatures and plant life (different from those you see during the day) are active at night.

During your program you’ll go on three open water dives. You’ll learn to prepare night dive activities and develop your knowledge and techniques for night diving.

Night Dive Course

Padi Night Diver Video Clip

Some of the topics covered in PADI Night Diver Manual are:

  • Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and 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.

The Night Dive conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward this specialty at the discretion of the instructor.

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