Description
Overview Night Dive Specialty on Gili Meno
2 or 3 days – 3 open water dives – explore the night
Diving does not end when the sun sets! Meet the incredible marine life that only comes out at night for a completely unique diving experience. Become an experienced night diver with the Night Dive Specialty on Gili Meno. Although it may seem scary, many divers fall in love with diving in the dark!
We at Divine Divers on Gili Meno think it is best to experience your first night dive together with an instructor in a controlled environment. Overcome your fear, or get more out of night diving with the Night Diving specialty.
While night diving you will observe different marine creatures, such as unique crustaceans and mollusks you never knew existed, as well as unique behaviours from animals such as lionfish, octopus and turtles.
As an added bonus, only when night diving can you experience the beautiful and fascinating natural phenomenon of bioluminescent plankton, where thousands of tiny plankton glow when a chemical reaction that takes place inside them causes them to light up.
During this course you will learn:
- Night dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and potential problems
- Additional equipment requirements
- Light handling and communication techniques
- Practise underwater navigation at night
- Find entry and exit points in the dark
- Avoid disorientation
- Control your buoyancy at night without visible reference
- Observe how marine organisms differ or change behaviour at night, including use of specialist Ultraviolet Light torches to experience fluorescent plankton.
Upon completion, you will earn your PADI Night Diver certification.
Content and Schedule
The night dive specialty course requires three night dives, and as such is typically completed over three evenings. With a combination of online learning, in-person theory sessions and open water training dives, you will become comfortable and confident on night dives.
Two of the dives will use “normal” light, whereas the last one will take place with UV (blue) light.
If you don’t have three evenings, we can also include an early morning dive where we enter the water at night and exit at dawn.
Inclusions
Our diving courses on Gili Meno are all-inclusive and you will encounter no hidden costs during your diving journey.
- Maximum 4 students per instructor.
- Multilingual instructors.
- Full equipment.
- Theory and e-learning materials.
- Three open water dives.
- All boat rides to and from the dive sites.
- Certification.
- Lots of fun!
Please note, the Gili Islands are located in a Marine Park. Therefore all divers are required to pay a one time Marine Park fee of 100.000 IDR. This fee is NOT included in our prices. We collect it in cash at our dive center on Gili Meno.
Pre-Requisites
To enrol in the PADI Night Diver Specialty with Divine Divers on Gili Meno you must:
- Be at least 12 years or older
- (Junior) Open Water certification or qualifying entry-level certification
- Be fit and healthy.
- All diving students are required to comply with a Medical-Statement
Booking and cancellations
Our cancellation policy is flexible and we are trying our best to meet your holiday schedule and potential interruptions of it. If you book a course in advance but you are then unable to do it for prooven medical reasons, we will reimburse you of course minus admin and transaction costs.
We accept bank transfers, cash and credit cards. Please note, a 3% surcharge applies to all credit card transactions.
Additional details
We conduct all our courses in line with PADI standards.
If you’d like to complete the theory before your arrival online, let us know and we will be glad to help you with registering and receiving the theory package.