Seal Team

The PADI Seal Team program is an exciting underwater activity-filled introduction to the world of diving. The PADI Seal Team program provides children the chance to experience the adventure, discovery and thrills of the underwater world. It also provides parents or guardians with a structured program that lets their children develop skills, learn about the aquatic realm and have a lot of good, healthy fun.

If you are at least 10 years old you can be part of the Seal Team!

Getting Kids into the Team

To become official members of the PADI Seal Team, kids must complete the first five of 15 Aqua Missions. These activities develop fundamental scuba skills and knowledge while preparing kids for further adventure. Children learn about diving by watching the PADI Seal Team video, through the PADI Seal Team Aqua Mission Activity Book and during pre-dive briefings with their PADI Instructor. Each Aqua Mission consists of a briefing, a skill session and a game or activity. Completing the pool dive and answering challenge questions in their PADI Seal Team Aqua Mission Logbooks earns young divers an Aqua Mission decal. Finishing Aqua Missions 1-5, which is equivalent to completing the skills in Confined Water Dive One from the Open Water Diver Course, means youngsters are PADI Seal Team members. Receiving a PADI Seal Team member card and wall certificate recognizes their accomplishments and allows them to work toward PADI Master Seal Team recognition.

AQUA MISSION 1
Upon completion of Aqua Mission 1, youngsters will be able to answer the following questions:
• What is the most important safety rule for scuba diving?
• How do you keep your ears comfortable while scuba diving?
• How do you know how much air is left in your scuba tank?

Skills
• Shallow water entry
• Don and adjust equipment
• Underwater breathing
• Underwater swimming
• Air gauge reading and understanding
• Air supply signaling
• Ear clearing (equalizing)
• Hand signals (OK, Up, Down, I Have a Problem, Stop)
• Ascent

AQUA MISSION 2
Upon completion of Aqua Mission 2, youngsters will be able to answer the following questions:
• What do you do when your regulator is out of your mouth?
•What is a purge button?
• How do you avoid a mask squeeze?

Skills
• Shallow water entry
• Don and adjust equipment
• Regulator removal and bubble blowing
• Regulator replacement and clearing (purge button)
• Regulator removal and recovery (in front of diver)
• Mask equalization
• Hand signals (Blow Bubbles)
• Ascent

AQUA MISSION 3
Upon completion of Aqua Mission 3, youngsters will be able to answer the following questions:
• What does the inflator hose on a BCD do?
• What is your extra regulator called?
• What does S.A.F.E. stand for?

Skills
• Shallow water entry
• Don and adjust equipment
• Inflate/deflate BCD at surface (power inflator)
• Clear a partially flooded mask
• Octopus breathing (alternate air source use – must be supplied by the instructor)
• Hand signals (Low On Air, Out of Air, Share Air)
• Ascent

AQUA MISSION 4
Upon completion of Aqua Mission 4, youngsters will be able to answer the following questions:
• Which arm do you use when you recover your regulator?
• What are you controlling when you do a fin pivot?
• What is hovering?

Skills
• Shallow water entry
• Don and adjust equipment
• Regulator removal and recovery (from behind the shoulder)
• Regulator replacement and clearing (blowing hard)
• Underwater weightlessness: Neutral buoyancy – fin pivot (power inflator only)
• Underwater weightlessness: Neutral buoyancy – hovering (power inflator only)
• Ascent

AQUA MISSION 5
Upon completion of Aqua Mission 5, youngsters will be able to answer the following question:
• What is the best way to move through the water?
• What are four important things to remember about scuba diving?
• Why are snorkels good to use on the surface?

Skills
• Snorkel clearing – blast method
• Snorkel to regulator exchange
• Surface swim with scuba

If this activity is of interest to you, please contact us and we will be delighted to answer any additional questions you may have and asssit you in the best possible way we can.

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