For black Friday greatdivers.com had a $1 sale to take their Natural Navigation course, so I did it.
As background I have already taken the PADI Underwater Nav class.
The Natural Navigation course consists of the first 2 lessons of the full 7 lesson Scuba Navigation Mastered Class.
The topics in the Natural Navigation course are:
1. Listening to dive briefings
2. Situational awareness while diving.
3. Dealing with currents
4. Distance Estimation
5. Very basic pattern navigation
greatdivers.com presentation was very good and easy to understand. Most of the material is basic and people can find online.
Compared to the natural navigation components taught in the full PADI Underwater Nav class, this class was light on content (ex. shore diving skills). The greatdivers class has a little bit of material about diving in current that the PADI class did not have.
Being that I only did the greatdivers natural nav component I can not comment on the rest of the class compared to the PADI class.
As background I have already taken the PADI Underwater Nav class.
The Natural Navigation course consists of the first 2 lessons of the full 7 lesson Scuba Navigation Mastered Class.
The topics in the Natural Navigation course are:
1. Listening to dive briefings
2. Situational awareness while diving.
3. Dealing with currents
4. Distance Estimation
5. Very basic pattern navigation
greatdivers.com presentation was very good and easy to understand. Most of the material is basic and people can find online.
Compared to the natural navigation components taught in the full PADI Underwater Nav class, this class was light on content (ex. shore diving skills). The greatdivers class has a little bit of material about diving in current that the PADI class did not have.
Being that I only did the greatdivers natural nav component I can not comment on the rest of the class compared to the PADI class.
