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Scouts Water Activities Activity Badge

Scouts Water Activities Activity Badge

Water Activities badge

From scuba diving to water skiing, hit the water and indulge your passion, for a fantastic water activities experience.

How to earn your badge:

  1. Reach one of these standards:
    1. Snorkel Diver Award of the British Sub-Aqua Club.
    2. British Water Ski Federation Cutting Edge Bronze Award.
    3. Royal Yachting Association National (RYA) Youth Windsurfing Scheme Stage 1.
    4. British Sub-Aqua Club Try Dive or Adventure Diver, or the Discover Scuba Diving Award of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors.
    5. BKSA (British Kite Sports Association) Level One.
    6. British Rowing Learn2Row (L2R) course in a fixed seat craft.
    7. Leadership Activity Permit for Power Boating or Personal Watercraft (Jet Ski), a Leadership Permit for Narrow Boating or Motor Cruising or the RYA Level 2 Powerboat Award.

Tips

  • UK Headquarters can provide alternative requirements for water sports not listed above. You can gain a badge for every standard you meet.

  • We have recently merged the Power Coxswain and Pulling (Fixed Seat Rowing) activity badges into this badge. For more information about this please see our Programme and Badge updates webpage.

June 2026.

Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.

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