Reef Chronicler · Learn
Learn it. For free. Whether or not you ever take the course.
The course's student handbook in full — 19 lessons, about 27 minutes of reading. No account, no sign-up, nothing to buy to read it.
This course is still being written. Reef Chronicler is under development and has not been
submitted to PADI. These lessons are published as the handbook is written, which means they will
change — sections will be added, rewritten and reordered, and what you read today may not be what
is here next month. They are worth reading; they are not yet worth memorizing.
Unlike the other courses here, these lessons have no practice slates yet. The recording forms exist in the course documents but are not wired into these pages. Each lesson does end with a three-question check — not a test, just a way to see that the lesson landed.
Unlike the other courses here, these lessons have no practice slates yet. The recording forms exist in the course documents but are not wired into these pages. Each lesson does end with a three-question check — not a test, just a way to see that the lesson landed.
Anyone can learn this. Only an instructor can certify you. Everything here is open — read
it because you are curious about how a reef gets photographed so it can be measured, or because
you want to run the method yourself. Nothing on this page is graded, recorded, or sent anywhere.
What a certification card attests is not that someone read something. It is that an instructor watched them do the work in water and judged them competent. That part cannot happen on a website — the reading is free, the card is not.
What a certification card attests is not that someone read something. It is that an instructor watched them do the work in water and judged them competent. That part cannot happen on a website — the reading is free, the card is not.
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- 01 What This Course Is 2 min
- 02 The Idea You Should Carry Out of Here 2 min
- 03 What You Will Produce 1 min
- 04 The references in the frame 1 min
- 05 Nothing Is Measured in the Water 1 min
- 06 You will not know if a frame is good until later 1 min
- 07 Scoring the Frame 2 min
- 08 Condition 3 min
- 09 Area affected, not colonies affected 1 min
- 10 Flags, not diagnoses 1 min
- 11 Dive 1 — Occupy 1 min
- 12 Dive 2 — Capture 1 min
- 13 Dive 3 — Prove the record 1 min
- 14 Dive 4 — Found a station 1 min
- 15 Auditing a Record You Inherited 2 min
- 16 The Return Visit 2 min
- 17 Reporting Rules That Are Easiest to Break 2 min
- 18 Safety 1 min
- 19 What You Leave With 1 min
Interested in the course itself? It is not an offering yet — the materials are still being
written and it has not gone to PADI. Questions are welcome, and the four courses underneath it are
all live. Get in touch.
Generated from the Reef Chronicler Student Handbook, version 0.04. The course documents are the authority; if these pages and they ever disagree, the documents are right.