GWS PADI seal Team

ages 8-10 years old

About the Course

The PADI Seal Team is for young scuba divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting AquaMissions. Here at GWS, we have been running SealTeam for a few years now, with returning young divers who are always asking their parents “Is it time to go diving yet?!” We take a lot of care to make our Seal Team fun, engaging, and safe for our young kiddos.

Beyond learning basic scuba skills, there are specialty AquaMissions, such as wreck diving, navigation, buoyancy, environmental awareness and more. . . In fact, we often say how our young SealTeam divers are the best divers we have at the shop! Their passion and attention to detail in learning their underwater skills is what makes SealTeam so much fun!

PADI Seal Team includes doing some cool stuff in the pool, meeting friends and sharing in the adventure of the underwater world.

To join the PADI Seal Team, a child must be 8 years of age or older. No prior experience with scuba diving is necessary, but kids should be comfortable in the water. Parental approval is required.

SEAL TEAM
MASTER SEAL TEAM

Here at GWS, where many of our staff are parents themselves,

we know there is nothing more important to you then your child

This is why we take extra care developing our kids programming and ensuring that our safety standards not just meet, but far exceed the guidelines set out by Padi

What our parents are saying:

  • Laura

    The Generation Wave Scuba team is incredible. It is clear they love to dive and to share that love with others. My 10 year old son joined the PADI Seal Team and says “it is the best thing ever!”. He has had a blast learning to dive with them. Felt safe and had fun the entire time. Can’t wait to continue to learn more through them and eventually obtain Open Water PADI Cert. He’s already making plans to join a diving trip haha. The Seal Team course through Generation Wave was an amazing intro to diving through fun and play. Great little group of fellow divers too.

  • Brian

    Ron and his team ran a special program for younger children not eligible for PADI. My son loves the ocean so we thought it would be great to check out the program. We were just window shopping but when we met Ron we were signed up right away. You won’t meet a more passionate and patient group of divers anywhere. Scuba is a wonderful passion but putting our 9 yr old in a scuba program was still terrifying for us. First day in training put us completely at ease. The safety and guidance provided was excellent. They always had someone within arms reach to make sure our son felt supported every step of the way. The effort put into preparing the Equipment prior to class was also impressive. They even built a ship wreck for the pool with a treasure hunt to put the new skills to use. The conservation training and the course material including the national graphics book and certification was also incredible. We now have a Seal Team graduate ready and prepared to get his PADI certificate when he turns 10. We highly recommend anyone looking to scuba to meet Ron and his team.

  • David

    I recently did my discover scuba diving and my son did his bubblemaker with Ron at Generation Wave Scuba. The experience was one of the best in my life. Ron was a fantastic teacher and very patient with my son who needs some extra time and attention. He had told me watching people take their first breaths underwater was what makes him do this. I’ve got to say after watching my son take his and flourish underwater I completely understand. I can not recommend this enough to anyone who wants to try scuba diving.

    Based on [this experience], my son continued his training and went through the PADI Seal Team program. It has been one of the best things we’ve experienced. The instructor team are absolutely amazing and the care and detail they put in to the program are at a level I haven’t seen before. They are amazing professionals that care about passing along their passion for scuba and it shows in everything they do. I can’t thank them enough for the dedication that they put into everything. They truly deserve far more than the 5 star limit.

  • Jon

    My 11 year old son has been with Generation Wave since Ron and Ken opened. He started here and has now achieved his junior open water, drysuit and Zombie apocalypse PADI certifications. They have treated him like family since the beginning and he absolutely loves the instruction and all of the dives that Generation Wave has offered. We couldn’t be more happy with our family’s experience with Generation Wave Scuba.

  • CJ

    Ron and his team are very professional and very enthusiastic about sharing/ teaching their passion of scuba diving. Ron help my daughter get her open water cert and it's very clear he is great with instructing kids. My daughter and I joined the "zombie apocalypse" dive today and experienced a fun way to help clean up a community lake.
    Thank you Ron and staff for all your great energy and effort to help get us to see/ enjoy a new underwater world! I highly recommend going to see Generation wave scuba for any of your scuba needs.

padi seal team

5 sessions - $600.00

Academic:

The PADI Seal Team program teaches responsibility and respect for the aquatic realm. It’s broken into two parts.

AquaMissions 1 - 5, covers basic scuba diving skills, such as breathing underwater, clearing a mask of water, recovering a regulator and swimming around experiencing the sensation of being weightless. Complete these AquaMissions and become a recognized PADI Seal Team Member. This experience may also count toward the PADI Open Water Diver course when old enough to participate in the course.

The course includes the following:

  • 5 x 2hr pool sessions with dedicated Instructors and Divemasters

  • Pizza back at the shop after each session (yum!)

  • Learning about coral conservation while eating this pizza (fun!)

  • All rental gear to scuba dive (We have child-specific gear sizes to ensure the safest and most comfortable experience possible)

  • Wetsuits for the chilly pool (Child and adult sizes to fit all our growing kiddos!)

  • BBQ after last session

padi Master seal team

10 sessions - $1200.00

Academic:

The PADI Seal Team program teaches responsibility and respect for the aquatic realm. It’s broken into two parts.

AquaMissions 1 - 5, covers basic scuba diving skills, such as breathing underwater, clearing a mask of water, recovering a regulator and swimming around experiencing the sensation of being weightless. Complete these AquaMissions and become a recognized PADI Seal Team Member. This experience may also count toward the PADI Open Water Diver course when old enough to participate in the course.

AquaMissions 5-10 cover specialties such as wreck diving, night diving, navigation, underwater magician, and Star Wars themed!

5 aquamissions + 5 specialty aquamissions (night diving, wreck diving, and more!)

The course includes the following:

  • 10x 2hr pool sessions with dedicated Instructors and Divemasters

  • Pizza back at the shop after each session (yum!)

  • Learning about coral conservation while eating this pizza (fun!)

  • All rental gear to scuba dive (We have child-specific gear sizes to ensure the safest and most comfortable experience possible)

  • Wetsuits for the chilly pool (Child and adult sizes to fit all our growing kiddos!)

  • BBQ after last session

  • Seal Team T-shirt

specialty aquamissions

peak performance buoyancy

SealTeam Members are taught how to hover using their gear and with their lungs. Seals will have an obstacle course of Hula-hoops (and other obstacles!) to go through without touching or getting tangled up in. We explore the academic concepts of buoyancy and water displacement!

Thanks to our friends at the Spray Lakes Centre, we are able to go to the pool after hours where the lifeguards will turn out all the lights so the Seal team can learn what it is like to night dive! They will learn how to communicate with torches (lights) instead of hand signals. This dive remains a fan favourite, year after year for both staff and Seals alike!

night diving

Generation Wave Scuba has a 30’ boat made out of PVC pipe that our friends at the Spray Lakes Pool lets us sink!!! The Seal Team learns how to draw the wreck with underwater slates with them learning to explain how to get through the wreck. The participants are also taught how to do line work so when they enter the wreck they can follow the line to get back out of the boat. The boat is not enclosed and is completely open for safety, but we have such a fun time decorating it and we even host a treasure hunt with prizes for our Seals!

wreck diving

other specialty aquamissions:

Underwater Magician

Search & Recovery

Star Wars themed

Underwater Navigation

Underwater Photography

Delayed Surface Marker Buoy . . . . & More!!!