The program
5 AquaMissions · two days · pool training
Kids scuba in the Red Sea · PADI Seal Team Hurghada · Ages 8 and up
PADI Seal Team in Hurghada gives children five AquaMissions across two days, in a pool where they learn real diving skills through games rather than lessons. It suits any child aged eight or over who tried scuba once and immediately wanted more.
5 AquaMissions · two days · pool training
€150 per child · equipment included
Ages 8+ · no experience needed · small groups
PADI Seal Team Hurghada costs €150 per child and runs over two days. Children complete five AquaMissions in a swimming pool, learning basic scuba skills through structured games and challenges. Importantly, children must be at least eight years old, and they need no previous experience whatsoever. Complete child-sized scuba equipment, a qualified PADI Professional, the PADI Seal Team materials and hotel transfer within Hurghada all come with the price.
Seal Team is a recognition program rather than a diving certification. Even so, it gives children far more water time than a one-hour taster, so they finish genuinely confident instead of merely curious. Furthermore, the program follows the standards published by PADI. Red Sea Diving is a PADI dive operator based in Hurghada, Egypt, and has run diving and liveaboard trips on the Red Sea since 2000.
| Course | PADI Seal Team, a recognition program rather than a diving certification |
|---|---|
| Price | €150 per child |
| Duration | 2 days |
| Dives | 5 AquaMissions in a pool or equivalent confined water, no open water dives |
| Minimum age | 8 years |
| Prerequisite | None. Parental consent plus the signed PADI registration and medical forms |
| Location | Swimming pool or equivalent confined water in Hurghada, Egypt |
| Availability | Year-round, on request, subject to pool and instructor availability |
| Included | Complete scuba equipment child-sized where available, a qualified PADI Professional, the PADI Seal Team logbook and recognition materials, drinking water, hotel transfer within Hurghada |
| Not included | Transfer surcharge from El Gouna, Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh, Soma Bay and other outlying hotels. No diving certification is issued |
| Operator | Red Sea Diving, a PADI dive operator based in Hurghada, Egypt, since 2000 |
PADI Seal Team is a pool-based scuba program for children aged eight and over, built around five AquaMissions across two days rather than a single session. In practice, most children’s diving programs stop at one hour in the shallow end.
Seal Team keeps going, because five separate sessions give a child time to stop concentrating on the equipment and start enjoying the water. Meanwhile, every AquaMission arrives as a challenge rather than a lesson. Children clear a mask, recover a regulator, hover, swim an obstacle course and work as a team, yet from their side it simply feels like the best afternoon of the holiday.
Above all, the instructor stays with the group throughout, and no child is ever pushed to complete a mission they are not enjoying.
PADI Seal Team Hurghada is built from five AquaMissions, spread across two days so that nothing is rushed. Each mission adds one layer of skill on top of the last.
First of all, your child meets the equipment, learns how it works and takes their first breaths underwater. Everything happens in shallow water, standing depth, with the instructor within arm’s reach.
Next come the core scuba skills: clearing water from a mask, recovering a regulator, and moving calmly rather than quickly. Children repeat each one until it stops feeling strange.
Then they learn to hover, which children usually find the most satisfying part. Floating in one place without touching the bottom feels like a genuine superpower at that age.
Afterwards the sessions turn into challenges: an obstacle course, an underwater construction task, or a search-and-recover game. Meanwhile the skills keep building without anybody calling them skills.
Finally, the group works together on a mission that needs communication and buddy awareness. That teamwork is exactly what real diving depends on later.
PADI Seal Team Hurghada is open to children aged eight and over, and all five AquaMissions stay in confined water. Consequently, the instructor is within arm’s reach for every minute of the two days.
In short, children aged eight and over who feel comfortable in water and can follow simple safety instructions. A parent or guardian completes the PADI registration and medical forms. Your child needs no previous experience, and does not have to be a strong swimmer.
All five AquaMissions take place in a swimming pool or equivalent confined water, never in open sea. Because of that, conditions stay identical from one session to the next, which is exactly what young learners need.
If the medical questionnaire flags anything that could affect safety on scuba, your child needs a doctor’s approval first. Simply mention it when you inquire, and a local physician can usually sign off the same day.
Where the facility allows it, parents watch from a designated area at the poolside. In addition, most children settle faster knowing you are nearby, and the photographs come out better too.
PADI Seal Team in Hurghada takes place in a swimming pool or equivalent confined water, never on a boat and never in open sea. As a result, depth and visibility stay the same across all five AquaMissions, which is what makes the two days work for young learners. Meanwhile, we confirm the exact location together with your booking, because it depends on the dates and on the pool available. Hotel transfer within Hurghada is included in the €150.
The €150 price of PADI Seal Team Hurghada covers one child for all five AquaMissions across both days.
Transfers from El Gouna, Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh, Soma Bay and hotels well outside Hurghada may carry a small surcharge. Send us your hotel name and we confirm the total before you book.
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Both programs start at age eight, yet in practice they answer different questions. PADI Bubblemaker costs €75 and lasts one hour, which suits a family who simply wants to see whether their child likes it.
By contrast, Seal Team costs €150 and gives five sessions across two days. Because the water time is so much greater, children move past the novelty and actually learn something they keep.
As a result, many families book Bubblemaker early in the holiday and add Seal Team once they watch how their child takes to it.
From age ten, children who finish PADI Seal Team are often ready for the PADI Junior Open Water Diver course at €350, which is a full international certification with real open-water dives. Even so, readiness depends on age, maturity, swimming ability and medical fitness rather than on enthusiasm alone.
Meanwhile the rest of the family can be in the water on the same days. Our Hurghada island and snorkeling trip works well alongside a morning session, and certified divers can join daily diving. Naturally, all our procedures appear on the diving safety page.
Why us
Above all, full emergency equipment, a documented action plan and a proper briefing before every session.
Indeed, more than two decades of diving and liveaboard operations out of Hurghada, on every Egyptian route.
Furthermore, children work in tiny groups, so the instructor keeps every young diver within reach the whole time.
Child-sized masks, fins and buoyancy devices wherever suitable kit is available, because gear that fits turns a nervous child into a confident one.
Moreover, the €150 covers the professional, the equipment, the materials and the transfer within Hurghada, with any surcharge confirmed beforehand.
In addition, children learn from the very first mission to watch marine life rather than touch it.
Questions
PADI Seal Team in Hurghada costs €150 per child. In other words, that price covers five AquaMissions, scuba equipment, the PADI Seal Team materials, professional supervision and hotel transfer within Hurghada.
PADI Seal Team runs over two days in total, so the five AquaMissions are split between them.
We spread the missions across two days deliberately, because young divers absorb far more with a break in between.
We include transfer within Hurghada. However, pickups from El Gouna, Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh or Soma Bay may carry a small surcharge, confirmed before booking.
All five AquaMissions happen in a swimming pool or equivalent confined water in Hurghada. In other words, PADI Seal Team never runs in open sea.
PADI Seal Team stays at pool depth only, while the instructor remains within arm’s reach throughout every mission.
Eight years old. Meanwhile, younger children can try PADI Bubblemaker instead, which also starts at eight but lasts a single hour.
Your child does not need to be a strong swimmer, although of course they should feel comfortable in water.
Swimwear, a towel and sun protection. Otherwise we provide all the scuba equipment, while a parent or guardian simply signs the registration and medical forms on the first day.
No. PADI Seal Team is a recognition program rather than a certification, so consequently it does not qualify a child to dive without a professional present.
Yes. Children receive the PADI Seal Team logbook and recognition materials, and afterwards they record each completed AquaMission themselves.
From age ten, the PADI Junior Open Water Diver course leads to a full international certification with real open-water dives.
To begin with, send us your child’s name and age, your preferred dates, their swimming ability, your hotel, your preferred language and anything medical we should know. Subsequently, we confirm availability, the pickup times and the two-day schedule within twenty-four hours.
This page was last reviewed by the Red Sea Diving instructor team in September 2026.
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