Sea Base - Merit Badges - SCUBA Diving Merit Badge

Are you going on the Sea Base high adventure sailing, snorkeling trip and thinking, I'll bet I could do most of the requirements for the SCUBA Diving Merit Badge? You are RIGHT! Here's what you could get signed off on the SCUBA merit badge!

Be sure to get your Blue Card and a counselor assigned BEFORE you leave for Sea Base! Then document completion of anything you do on the trip. Be prepared to show your counselor photos, if he or she is not there with you, whenever possible, to demonstrate you competency and completion of requirements.

SCUBA Diving Merit Badge

You can find and print to bring with you,

The requirements below are almost exactly what you’ll be doing all week, anyway, so this is a perfect merit badge to work on at Sea Base.

✅ Requirements you can likely complete at Sea Base

Below is a summary and checklist. The highlighted requirements could be done during Sea Base. You can learn the others while there, and if a SCUBA merit badge counselor is there, do those, too. See the pamphlet or workbook above for details. Learn, during the trip, about those you must later explain to you counselor.

🤿 SCUBA Diving Checklist

This is only a checklist and a summary of requirements - you must see the BSA pamphlet or workbook for the detailed requirements!

Req	Description	Done	Initials
1	Show proof of age, health history, and parental approval; meet medical requirements for diving
2	Earn the Swimming merit badge or demonstrate equivalent swimming ability and water skills
3	Discuss hazards of scuba diving and explain preventive safety measures and emergency procedures
4	Explain physics and physiology of diving (pressure, buoyancy, gas laws, effects on body)
5	Describe scuba equipment and its proper use, care, and maintenance
6	Explain dive planning, including dive tables/computers, depth limits, and buddy system
7	Demonstrate basic scuba skills in confined water (mask clearing, regulator recovery, buoyancy control, etc.)
8	Complete required open-water dives demonstrating safe diving skills and procedures
9	Earn an entry-level scuba certification from a recognized agency (e.g., Open Water Diver)