PADI Advanced Open Water Navigation Dive Training

Dive site: Pereybere Aquarium

surface interval

This time we went down and broke out the compasses and navigated a big square over the reef. The training exercise went smoothly and we had plenty of time to enjoy the ecosystem. So many fish!

Notes

• Outfit: Crystal Divers Mauritius
• Instructor: Chris
• No GoPro this day
• There will be footage of the dive site in a later post when we came back with GoPro.
• The Termo Premium Dir Tech Diver Compass was uncomfortable on the wrist but worked well when hooked it up as a leash.
• Still not sure in which use case we would actually use these navigation skills. Seems while traveling we’ll always be diving with a guide.
• It was surprisingly hard to count kick cycles. Trying to remain calm and maintain boyancy I lost count.
• Near end of this dive I observed our instructors deploying a Surface Marker Buoy, SMB. We didn’t really cover it in our open water course so I’d like to get more experence with them.