PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty

Underwater Naturalist specialty certification course at Sail Fish Scuba dive center is fun and rewarding.

This course takes only a 2 tank dive to complete. You earn a PADI Specialty Diver certification at the end of the course.

If you are already a certified Open Water diver and you have a desire to understand better what you are seeing when diving, this is the course for you.

Course Overview

Make two open water scuba dives under the direct supervision of a PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty Instructor.

Before you jump off the boat to go diving you will need read the UW Naturalist manual.

As with all training manuals there are knowledge reviews to complete as well.

What you learn topics

Ecology is the study of living things and their interrelations with each other and with their environment.

Community  is a collection of different organisms living and interacting in an ecosystem.

Population is a group of the same species living and interacting within a community.

Habitat includes the area and conditions in which you find an organism.

A microhabitat exists on a very small scale.

An organism’s role in it’s habitat is called its niche.

Grecian Rocks Reef Lettuce Sea Slug
Lettuce Sea Slug on Grecian Rocks Reef

Dive 1 skills

Passively observe aquatic life.

Apply diving techniques used to preserve bottom dwelling organisms and minimize disturbance of all aquatic life.

Locate and identify, by common or scientific name, at least two local aquatic plants.

Locate, observe and identify, by common or scientific name, at least four local aquatic invertebrate animals.

Locate, observe and identify, by common or scientific name, at least five local aquatic vertebrate animals.

5 Marine Symbiotic Relationships

Lettuce Sea Slug Key Largo Grecian Rocks Reef
Lettuce Sea Slug

Dive 2 skills

Passively observe aquatic life.

Apply diving techniques used to preserve bottom-dwelling organisms and minimize disturbance of all aquatic life.

Identify and observe as many examples of symbiotic and predator/prey relationships as possible.

( Review the symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.)

Locate as many indications of impact by man on the local aquatic environment as possible, and evaluate the possible causes.

Cool Examples of Symbiotic Relationships in the Ocean

Do you know why divers should avoid ever feeding aquatic animals?

Want to know the answer? Sign up now for this course!

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PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty