Dedicated to Excitement, Fun and Adventure through Education and Exploration of our Oceans.
PADI family scuba, marine science field trips and hands-on kits — led by a marine biologist, across Florida.
FAMILIES · SCHOOLS · CO-OPS · THROUGHOUT FLORIDA
Adventure Kits
A new ocean topic in the mail every month. Twenty-four of them, with the experiments, specimens and tools included.
Homeschool Adventures
Marine science as your whole science curriculum, at three reading levels so every child in the house is on the same expedition.
Field Trips
We bring the ocean to your classroom, or take your students out to it — real specimens, real tools, real fieldwork.
Family Scuba
PADI training from a first breath in the pool to open water certification, taught to parents and children together.
The family that certifies together
Most dive shops teach children in one class and parents in another. We teach you as a family — because a newly certified 10-year-old can only dive with a certified adult anyway. Learn together, and you can actually go diving together.
First breaths
A confined water session in the shallow end. No experience needed and no certification required — just the first time breathing underwater, with you right there.
Discover Scuba Diving
A guided introductory dive under direct supervision. The try-before-you-commit option, and where most families start.
Open Water Diver
The full PADI certification course, taken side by side. Junior Open Water for ages 10 to 14, full Open Water Diver from 15 up. Certified for life.
Field trips they’ll continue to talk about all year long
Students handle real specimens, use real tools and ask a real marine biologist the questions they’ve been saving up. We come to you, or you come to the water.
We bring the ocean to you
A full marine science session delivered in your classroom, with everything carried in and carried out.
- Hands-on specimens and equipment
- Matched to your grade level
- No setup required from staff
- Purchase orders accepted
Out on the water with Tropical Sailing
Students get to the real thing — aboard a Tropical Sailing catamaran, along the shoreline and mangroves, meeting the animals that live there.
- Led by a marine biologist
- Field collection and identification
- Group sizes to suit your class
- Locations throughout Florida
Homeschool co-op days
A marine biologist comes to your co-op meet-up with the specimens, the tools and one Jr. Marine Biologist topic — taught at three levels so every age in the room is on the same expedition.
- One topic, three age levels
- Take-home kits at group pricing
- Half-day or full-day formats
- Step Up families welcome
Make the ocean your science year
Twenty-four topics, one a month, each a self-contained expedition: a lesson, the vocabulary, an experiment and a hands-on project. It drops into your science block with no prep on your part — and every topic comes in three reading levels, so your 6-year-old and your 11-year-old are on the same adventure.
Ages 4–6
Read-aloud lessons, sensory experiments, simple science.
Ages 7–9
Independent reading, real vocabulary, experiments they run themselves.
Ages 10–12
Research projects, ecosystems, conservation and the science behind it.
Adventure by mail
Not in Florida? The ocean comes to you. A new topic arrives every month with five or more hands-on activities, collectible flash cards and a certificate with your child’s name on it. Digital download versions are available worldwide.
FROM $45.99 / MONTH · FREE US SHIPPING
Started by a boat captain who couldn't find it anywhere
“I wanted to teach kids about our oceans in a fun and exciting way — a way I couldn’t find anywhere around South Florida. So I created one.”
I became a SCUBA instructor and camp counselor in the islands, then moved home to South Florida and started running ocean adventure camps in 2009. Thousands of children snorkeled, sailed, surfed and dived with us over the years — and the twenty-four kits started life as the lessons from those camps, tested on real kids before they were ever put in a box.
B.S. Environmental Education, Eckerd College · Minor in Marine Biology · PADI Scuba Instructor · Licensed boat captain · Homeschool mom of two
Maya also runs Business Mom in a Bikini, where she shares how she builds businesses that fund a life of freedom and adventure with her kids.
The ocean is right there
Tell us your group size, ages and where you are in Florida, and we’ll put an adventure together.
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