PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty Course

When you are facinated with marine life and want to know more about behaviors of the creature that live below the surface of the water, the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty Scuba Diving Course is a great addition to the experience during your Scuba dives and will enrich your knowledge of marine species.

The course will mainly focus on the aquatic life in the water around Bali and it's islands. Bali is one of Indonesia's 17.500 islands, and since Indonesia has a massive throughflow of water between the Indian ocean and Pacific ocean the biodiversity is varied and particularly rich in this part of the world.

Indonesia has some eighty genera of reef building corals and around 2500 species of reef fishes (and still counting). It is said that the triangle of Bali-Philippines-New Guinea has the richest tropical marine fauna on our planet, so there is more then enough underwater life to make your PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty Course a succes while you spend your holidays here in Bali!

When you complete this specialty course, your view at the underwater world will be changed. You don't see just fish and coral, but individual species with distinct behaviors and strategies for surviving in a complex, rich and interactive ecosystem.

Course Overview

The PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty Dive Course is composed to be an introduction to the aquatic underwater environment and help the student Scuba diver developing safe and responsible interaction with marine life.

Contained in this course are the following:

  1. You will learn planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of diving in different aquatic environments;
  2. A basic overview of major aquatic kife groupings (kingdoms and phyla);
  3. Facts and information dispelling myths of potentially dangerous marine life;
  4. An overview of basic aquatic life interactions and associations;
  5. Responsible human interactions with marine life;
  6. Scuba diving technique used to help preserve bottom dwelling marine life and minimize marine life disturbance.

Prerequisites

  • Participating divers needs to be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver (or comparable certification from another dive training organisation);
  • Have minimum age of 10 years;
  • Evaluate and sign the PADI medical statement.

This Course Includes

  • Lunch and Drinking water
  • All equipment hire
  • Air fills (free Nitrox available for EANx certified divers)
  • PADI dive insurance during the diving days
  • Transfers before, during and after the diving from and to you accommodation
  • Free Copy of BIDP's "Bali Ocean" Scuba Diving DVD (with underwater video of Bali's dive sites)

Duration Of The Course

  • Recommended duration is 12 hours
  • 2 dives

 

"When U Like Nature" - PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty

 

  

 

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