Night Diving- What You Need to Know

If you haven't tried it yet then I understand the thoughts that go through peoples mind. Just seems creepy to dive at night, or the sea monster is going to sneak up behind me and eat me. Whatever your thoughts are they are most likely wrong. Night diving is amazing. My wife said, "You will never ever get me to dive at night". She loves it now. I bailed on the last night dive and she went anyway. Mark P. was so nervous about night diving he worried about it even before we went on the trip. After, he loved it. Story after story people fall in love with night diving. 

I admit it seems mysterious, yet so alluring. The site you dove during the day is a different site at night. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal critters emerge. If you’ve wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.

The course teaches you to focus on what you can see in your light’s beam, on controlling your buoyancy by feel, on staying with your buddy and on paying attention to details you may overlook during the day. During three night dives, you’ll practice:

• Light handling and communication techniques.

• Entering, exiting and navigating in the dark.

• Identifying how animals  change behavior at night.