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AquaMission 1
AquaMission 1 Skills: |
In your first AquaMission, you learn the basics of diving. You
get to breathe underwater,
learn about your air gauge and practice hand signals with your
instructor and PADI Seal Team
friends. It all starts here - have a great time!
- Shallow water entry
- Put on and adjust gear
- Hand signals (OK, up, down, I have a problem)
- Breathing underwater
- Underwater swimming
- Reading the air gauge
- Air supply signals
- Ear clearing (equalizing)
- Ascents
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AquaMission 2
AquaMission 2 Skills: |
In AquaMission #2, you build on your scuba skills by practicing
regulator skills. By
learning good regulator recovery methods, you become a more
confident diver and great
PADI Seal Team buddy (more on that later)
- Shallow water entry
- Put on and adjust gear
- Hand signals (blow bubbles)
- Regulator removal and blowing bubbles
- Replace regulator and clear (purge button)
- Regulator removal and recovery (in front of diver)
- Mask equalization · Ascent
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AquaMission 3
AquaMission 3 Skills: |
In the third AquaMission, you learn mask clearing, octopus
breathing and hand signal
skills. After this AquaMission, you're more than halfway to
becoming an official PADI
Seal Team member
- Shallow water entry
- Put on and adjust gear
- Hand signals (low on air, out of air, share air)
- Inflate/deflate BCD at surface (power inflator)
- Clear water from mask while underwater
- Octopus breathing (supplied by instructor)
- Ascent
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AquaMission 4
AquaMission 4 Skills:
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In this AquaMission, you learn what it's like to be weightless -
just like an Astronaut in
space! Controlling your buoyancy - being able to "hover"
underwater - is one of the
most important skills for a PADI Seal.
- Shallow water entry
- Put on and adjust gear
- Regulator removal and recovery (from behind shoulder)
- Replace regulator and clear (blowing hard)
- Fin pivot (power inflator) · Hovering (power inflator)
- Ascent
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AquaMission 5
AquaMission 5 Skills: |
This is your last AquaMission for level one! After this you'll
be an official PADI Seal
Team member! Get ready to show off what you've learned as you
move on to your
Specialty AquaMissions.
- Snorkel clearing (blast method)
- Snorkel to regulator exchange
- Surface swim with scuba
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Skills Mastery (Skill Circuit) |
- Shallow water entry
- Put on and adjust gear
- Snorkel to regulator exchange - surface swim to descent
line
- Deflate BCD at surface
- Descent
- Ear clearing (equalization)
- Breathing underwater
- Underwater swimming
- Read air gauge and air supply signaling
- Clear water from mask while underwater
- Octopus breathing (supplied by instructor)
- Hand signals (OK, up, down, stop, I have a problem, low
on air, out of air, share air)
- Regulator removal and recovery (from behind shoulder)
- Replace regulator and clear (blowing hard and purge
button)
- Fin pivot (power inflator) · Hovering (power inflator)
- Inflate BCD at surface (power inflator)
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PADI Master Seal Team Specialty AquaMissions |
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Creature ID Specialist |
In this AquaMission
you learn how to identify the aquatic animals in your local
area.
You'll also learn how some of these animals move or push
themselves through the water. It's time to think - and act -
like a fish.
Creature ID Skills
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Environmental Specialist |
In this AquaMission, you play the role of a scientist and
practice how to search for and
uncover the evil secrets of pollution. Knowing these skills will
help you protect the
environment above and below the water.
Environmental Skills:
- Swim feet high, head low search position
- Underwater clean-up using a search pattern
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Inner Space Specialist |
In this specialty AquaMission, you learn how to hover in the
water like an Astronaut.
You'll also play games that require you to float while catching
an underwater toy. Can
you make it through an underwater obstacle course?
Inner Space Skills:
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Navigation Specialist |
It's always good to know where you're going. In AquaMission:
Navigation Specialist,
you use a compass underwater. You'll also learn to measure
distance underwater!
Navigation Skills:
- Underwater compass use
- Measure distance by counting kick strokes
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Night Specialist |
This is one of the best AquaMissions yet! Whether you're diving
in the pool at night, or
have the indoor lights off during the day, you'll find diving in
the dark exciting and fun.
You and your Seal Team diver buddies will go crazy over this
dive.
Night Skills:
- Underwater dive light use
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Safety Specialist |
Good divers always know what to do if a problem comes up while
diving. In this fun -
yet important - AquaMission, you'll learn how to help your
fellow divers if they get in
trouble.
Safety Skills:
- Predive safety check (BCD, weights, releases, air, final
OK)
- Cramp removal, self and buddy
- Throw a rescue line or float
- Surface buoyancy, self and buddy
- Rescue tow
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Search & Recovery Specialist |
Having the skills to find lost items underwater is important to
a PADI Seal. In the Search
and Recovery AquaMission, you'll learn how to search for lost
items and bring them to
the surface.
Search & Recovery Skills:
- Search for a lost item on pool bottom
- Remove object from pool bottom using lift bag
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Skin Diver Specialist |
Although you'll be spending most of your time underwater as a
PADI Seal, good
snorkeling skills always come in handy.
Skin Diver Skills:
- Snorkel equipment adjustment.
- Snorkel swim on surface (no hands)
- Blast clear snorkel
- Remove water from mask
- Control direction while swimming
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Snapshot Specialist |
As you go through the Snapshot AquaMission, you get to try
underwater cameras and
take pictures of your PADI Seal Team buddies. They also take
pictures of you! Hang
your dive pictures everywhere so your friends know you're a
scuba diver!
Snapshot Skills:
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Wreck Specialist |
In this adventure-filled AquaMission, you learn what it takes to
explore a sunken wreck.
With the help of your Instructor, you will learn safe and proper
ways to look at sunken
treasures.
Wreck Skills:
- Buoyancy control
- Measure and map wreck underwater
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The
PADI Seal Team is for young divers who are looking for action-packed fun
in a pool by doing exciting scuba "AquaMissions." Have you ever wondered
what it's like to dive with flashlights, take digital pictures
underwater or float effortlessly like an Astronaut? These are
AquaMissions. You will learn about safe diving and you can try
AquaMissions. Like wreck, navigation, buoyancy, underwater photography,
environmental awareness and more. Here's your chance to do some cool
stuff in the pool, meet friends and share in the adventure of the
underwater world.
