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An AI search produced the following: "Dive time" for National Outdoor Awards refers to the actual time spent underwater during a freediving or scuba diving activity, typically measured from the moment a diver enters the water until they resurface, and is used to track the duration of a dive for the purpose of earning an award based on specific depth or time requirements depending on the National Outdoor Award category. I know that does not answer your question however. For aquatics, requirement 4 is listed as: Complete the requirements for at least one of the following: Canoeing, Fishing, Fly-Fishing, Kayaking, Rowing, Scuba Diving, Small-Boat Sailing, Water Sports, or Whitewater merit badges or Ranger Award Fishing, Scuba or Watercraft electives. Complete at least 25 hours of on-the-water time, applying the skills that you learned in the merit badge or Ranger elective. I would interpret "on-the-water-time" for Scuba Diving as time in the water (on the boat) to/from the dive and prep time as you did, but within reason. As you state, if your son has 11 hours of dive time which includes 14 hours of travel and preparation on the boat that seems appropriate. Definitely, the time spend for prep time does fall into the category of "applying the skills you learned in the merit badge" but time simply riding on the boat getting to a location may not past muster. Those are just my thoughts, I'm not a merit badge counselor for Scuba Diving nor intimately familiar with the National Outdoor Awards. -
By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted
Exactly! Adding to my satisfaction is that two of my fellow leaders went at the same time, so now we're working on improving how our unit runs at the same time. By the time our tickets are finished, we will have significantly improved operational efficiency and have incorporated all the new adventure requirements into the operations in a scalable, repeatable way. And now when we need something, we have contacts at council as well as other units. Much better situation to be volunteering from. -
By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted
To me, the natural solution is for him to join the scout corps in Ecuador since that's where he lives now (https://scoutsecuador.org/) and then just come visit your troop whenever he's around as a social and networking visit. My troop had some foreign visitors like that, although mostly scouters. Some of my patrolmates had expatriated also, and joined in that case Scouts NZ while they were there. When they came back to Sweden, they brought scouting contacts with them. All part of the worldwide siblinghood of scouting. Your troop would be in an excellent position to earn the International Spirit Award! You would have an old scouting friend to visit, perhaps at an Ecuadorean camporee. You would have a much easier time planning cool high adventure in Ecuador with a local scouting friend to help. Lots of cool possibilities there! -
By OaklandAndy · Posted
I finished mine last fall, one of the better trainings that I've been to so far. Volunteering dynamics became a LOT easier once I networked with other leaders and focused in on what I needed to do to be a better leader for our scouts, volunteers, and parents.
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