Course overview

SSI Navigation sharpens your ability to find your way around south-ari-atoll's coral-head reefs and current-swept channels. Using compass and natural cues, you learn to stay oriented on the kandu drifts where the best shark and ray action unfolds.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • SSI Navigation digital materials (free)
  • Repeatable compass and pattern skill sessions
  • Navigation training dives on the reef
  • Natural-navigation and relocation practice
  • SSI Navigation digital specialty certification
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Underwater Navigation pathway

SSI Navigation includes free digital materials, repeatable performance-based sessions, and an SSI digital specialty card counting toward Specialty Diver.

Where you'll dive in South Ari Atoll

House reefs and reef flats at 5-18m provide coral bommies and sand patches as natural markers, good for compass and natural-navigation practice before you apply the skills on the atoll's drift-prone kandus.

Prefer a different certifying agency?PADI Underwater Navigation in South Ari Atoll →

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

Flights and accommodation aren’t part of the course price, here’s how to book them around your dates.

Getting there

Fly into Malé (MLE) · 3-4 hours from India.

Where to stay

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