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Underwater Navigation Tips & Techniques
Learning how to use instruments and natural features to find your way around underwater is important. Accurate navigation will help you to reach your planned exit point at the end of a dive, and will also help you find and explore features of interest, such as wrecks.
Mapping the Site
It is easy to become disoriented in poor visibility, but good navigation skills will help you find your way, even when conditions are against you. Developing such skills will make you less dependent on other divers for your own safety if you always rely on your buddy to lead the way, you could find yourself in trouble if you become separated.
On first entering the water, make mental notes of the surrounding feature such as unusual rocks, coral, or your position on a wreck site. As you progress through the dive, try to build up a map of the site in your mind. At every turning point, note nearby features and which direction you turned in relation to them Look at the seabed geology, too: rocks often have features or show strata that make memorable visual markers. It may be helpful to jot notes down on a slate.
Natural Navigation Aids
A compass gives the most accurate directional information, but there are also clues in nature. If the water is clear and shallow enough, or if there are any shadows cast by rocks, you can use the Sun as a directional reference. On a morning dive, for example, the Sun will be in the east, fake note of which way the current is running. (If you are diving close to slack water, at high or low tide, this may change by as much as 180° as the tide begins to turn.) Even if you cannot feel the current, you can find visual clues to its direction. Plankton, for example, drift along with the current, so shoals of fish station themselves lacing into the current so that (hey can feed on them. Kelp fronds flow in the direction of the current. Exhaust bubbles will rise up toward the surface (unless you are in a down current).
Following a Reef
On a basic reef dive, swim out with the reef wall on one side of your body and then return with the wall on your other side. When diving around a wreck, try to maintain either a clockwise or counter-clockwise motion, especially if the wreckage is fragmented. Keep the main part of the wreck to one side of your body during the dive, so that you return to your starting point after one circuit.
Laying a Distance Line
In low-visibility environments - such as murky temperate waters - it may be necessary to lay lines to aid navigation back to a convenient point. Lines can also be used to search an area: if you know the approximate position of a specific site, natural object, or artifact, you can use a line, in arcs of different lengths, to scan a large area of seabed efficiently.
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