Landlubber — compass navigation practice
Walk the patterns with your phone as referee: it reads your heading, counts your steps, and draws the shape you actually walked. Navigation is the one dive skill that gives no feedback — a student swims a square, surfaces forty metres from the shot line, and nobody can say which leg went wrong. This gives the feedback back.
What Landlubber does
Practise underwater compass navigation, on dry land
- Reads your heading as you walk it
- Counts your steps, so the distance is honest
- Draws the shape you walked over the one you meant
- Dry drills, before anybody gets wet
Beta testing · iPhone and Android · ₹799
Common questions
- How can I practise compass navigation without getting in the water?
- Landlubber drills the patterns on dry land — reciprocal, square, triangle, U-pattern and expanding square — then runs the same patterns in a dive simulator where you swim on compass with a slate and a fin-kick count.
- Which navigation patterns does it cover?
- Reciprocal, square, triangle, U-pattern and expanding square: the five that show up in Advanced Open Water, search and recovery, and any dive where you have to find your way back.
- Can I get a build?
- Landlubber is in beta and not on the stores yet. Ask for a build and you will get a TestFlight invite on iPhone or a direct install on Android. It is a paid app at ₹799 once it ships.