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Once you have completed Part One of the PADI SEAL TEAM Program keep diving by participating in Aqaumission Specialty Dives. When you complete 10 Aquamissions you can apply for your PADI Master Seal Team Membership.
Listed below are Aquamissions outlined in your Seal Team Aquamission Activity Book and many other SERPENT AQUATIC Aquamissions you can participate in.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
MARS Explorer MODEL MAKER SPECIALIST
In this aquamission your task is to build a model of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The origianl was launched in 2005 to search for water on palnet Mars. Your task is to construct this model while at the bottom of the pool.
KNOT SPECIALIST
In this Aquamission you learn how to tie knots underwater. As a diver there is often a need to secure objets while underwater so join the fun and see how good you are.
UNDERWATER PUMPKIN CARVING SPECIALIST
In this October Aquamission, you get to carve a pumpkin underwater. It's tough work and yes you do have to catch al the pumpkin parts before they drift off in the pool. You get to keep your pumpkin.
CHRSTMAS TREE DECORATING SPECIALIST
Each December we put a Christmas tree in the pool. Your task is to decorate the tree underwater. and then remove the decorations. It's teamwork and lots of fun because the tree is upside down with the base floating on the surface.
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