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

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Adventure Kits

A new ocean topic in the mail every month. Twenty-four of them, with the experiments, specimens and tools included.

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MARINE BIOLOGY

Homeschool Adventures

Marine science as your whole science curriculum, at three reading levels so every child in the house is on the same expedition.

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Girl in a snorkel mask holding a shell she found in shallow water THE SHORELINE

Field Trips

We bring the ocean to your classroom, or take your students out to it — real specimens, real tools, real fieldwork.

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Parent and child learning to scuba dive together during a pool training session UNDER THE SURFACE

Family Scuba

PADI training from a first breath in the pool to open water certification, taught to parents and children together.

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PADI SCUBA DISCOVER & OPEN WATER TRAINING

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.

AGES 8+ · POOL

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.

AGES 10+ · DISCOVER SCUBA

Discover Scuba Diving

A guided introductory dive under direct supervision. The try-before-you-commit option, and where most families start.

AGES 10+ · CERTIFICATION

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.

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Across Florida

Field trips they’ll still talk about in June

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.

Marine biologist teaching fish identification to kids on an outdoor field trip

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

Students get to the real thing — shoreline, mangroves and the animals that live there.

Led by a marine biologist
Field collection and identification
Group sizes to suit your class
Locations throughout Florida

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For homeschool families and co-ops

Make the ocean your science year

Boy grinning while lying on a paddleboard during a lesson in calm shallow water

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.

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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.

Shipped nationwide

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

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Under Blue Waters instructor smiling beside a paddleboard in the shallows SINCE 2009

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

Get in touch

The ocean is right there

Tell us your group size, ages and where you are in Florida, and we’ll put an adventure together.

Email Info@underbluewaters.com

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Education, Exploration, and Adventure