AquaMissions

PADI Seal Team program at a glance:

AquaMissions 1 - 5
1, 2, 3, 4, 5:
· Basic scuba diving skills
· Underwater fun and games
Complete Level 1 - become a PADI Seal Team member!

PADI MASTER Seal Team Specialty AquaMissions:
· Creature ID Specialist
· Environmental Specialist
· Inner Space Specialist
· Navigation Specialist
· Night Specialist
· Safety Specialist
· Search & Recovery Specialist
· Skin Diver Specialist
· Snapshot Specialist
· Wreck Specialist
Complete Specialty AquaMissions - become a PADI MASTER Seal Team member!


AquaMission 1
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!

AquaMission 1 Skills:
· 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
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).

AquaMission 2 Skills:
· 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
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!

AquaMission 3 Skills:
· 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
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.

AquaMission 4 Skills:
· 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
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.

AquaMission 5 Skills: New Skills:
· 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)

PADI Master Seal Team Specialty AquaMissions

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:
· Identify aquatic creatures
· Hand signals for aquatic creatures
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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:
· Fin pivot
· Hover
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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:
· Take pictures underwater
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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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