PADI Seal Team
Seal Team
We are still trying to find a suitable pool for the Seal Team. The current plan is to run Seal Team in the Summer Term when the weather will be warmer and use an outdoor, but heated, pool! Watch this space!
Birthday Parties
We can arrange Birthday parties for children or adults. We can take up to six students and introduce them to the underwater world! You'll have the chance to play with the underwater frisbee and Mr Sharky! Please contact us for more details.
All participants will receive a certificate to commemorate their achievement. If you prefer, we also offer snorkelling parties!
PADI Seal Team is a Scuba Diving Course especially designed for children ages 8-12 years old. All the sessions take place within the safe confines of a local pool, where the Seals learn many of the skills as someone taking the full Open Water Course. Having completed the first five Aquamissions, they become certified PADI Seal Members, with their very own Diving Certification Card. The Seals then progress onto the Specialty Aquamissions, which range from Search & Recovery, through Night and even a Wreck dive!! They will practice controlling their buoyancy, learn to tie knots underwater, use a compass and recognise many aquatic creatures that can be found off the Southwest coast. Weather permitting, we will take the Seals Skin Diving in the sea, once they have completed their Skin Diving Aquamission (hopefully by boat!)
Its not all work, we also play underwater frisbee and, invented by our Seals, Underwater Stick in the Mud!!!
If you have children who would be interested in becoming PADI Seals, please contact the Dive Centre.
Seal Team members have their very own website.
Check it out by clicking on the logo!!
Junior Open Water Divers
Proving that the Seal Team provides a really good grounding for youngsters wishing to progress further:
James is now an Open Water Diver, having finished his sea dives in the Red Sea. Since when he has joined us off Babbacombe for a dive.
Anastasia completed her Open Water course in the Seychelles, having started her Open Water course on her 10th birthday. Since then she has dived around the world with her parents!
Megan completed her Open Water course with JCD and has dived with her family in the Red Sea. She is due to take her Advanced Open Water course with us in 2009!
Master Seal
Anastasia became our first Master Seal after completing fifteen Aquamissions! As her last Aquamission was Skin Diver, she has also qualified as a PADI Skin Diver.
Well done too, to James and Jamie who also qualified as PADI Skin Divers.
Seals in the Red Sea
Jamie Spencer, another of our Seals, was lucky enough to jet off to the Red Sea in October. Below is a picture of him on a dive
Class of Autumn 2005
Another class of Seals graduated just before Christmas, so we held a celebration party at the Dive Centre with mince pies and chocolate logs. Congratulations to all of them! Three spent Christmas in the sun with their families, so hopefully were able to use their skills, and another Seal went on a last minute holiday to the Red Sea with his family. Become a Seal and see the world!!
Class of Summer 2005
Our first Seals were certified in June 2005, and we celebrated with a barbecue at the Dive Centre on a wonderful sunny Sunday evening. They are now diving hard to become Master Seals. Some of their photos are shown below....
