Advancement Training

Sea Scout Advanced Leader Training

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Sea Scout Advanced Leadership

Sea Scout Advanced Leadership (SEAL) Training is a petty officer (youth) leadership training course offered by the National Sea Scouting Committee. This is a one week, hard core leadership course that is conducted at sea. If you successfully complete the course you will be awarded the SEAL Training Award, which is a silver pin with twin dolphins, to be worn on your uniform (see above). This course is a leadership course, not a seamanship course. It covers such topics as preparing, goal setting, organizing, supervising, commanding, communicating, training, motivating, and other skills that will help you in functioning as a leader in your Ship and in life.

To attend a SEAL class you must be a registered Sea Scout. You must have earned the Seaman Ordinary rank prior to attending SEAL training, and you must have a thorough, working knowledge of Chapter four of the Sea Scout Manual.

The Sea Scout Advanced leadership Training program is a course designed to teach leadership skills while at sea. SEAL is NOT a seamanship course. It is designed to "jump start" junior leaders for new units and to tune up leaders from more experienced ships. SEAL is a hard core, tough, physically and mentally demanding course, not a holiday or a boat ride. Applicants for SEAL must prepare themselves, because we do not have time to teach seamanship. Preparation consists of study of Chapter 4 of the NEW Sea Scout Manual and outlining that chapter in detail. Students must be able to perform basic coastal navigation on paper and must be able to tie all knots required for Apprentice and Ordinary ranks. Students must know the basic nomenclature of a sailing and power vessel, know helm commands and points of relative bearings. All of this information is in the Sea Scout Manual. You can be successful in this course even if you have only been in Sea Scouting for a few months. However you must be willing to learn and work hard at preparation.

To assist the student with preparation, two tests will be forwarded to your skipper. One test is over Chapter 4 of the Sea Scout Manual and the other is a test of basic coastal navigation. The navigation test consists of setting a course, computing speed, time and distance, compass error, fix by two lines of position and finding latitude and longitude. These tests are not to be returned, but are used by the applicant and his skipper to determine the applicants state of readiness. The skipper can tell if the applicant needs more help BEFORE he or she reports for SEAL training.

The Skipper's evaluation of the potential participant's readiness to undergo this training is of the utmost importance. Preparation and full readiness regarding the knowledge of seamanship as set out in Chapter 4 of the Sea Scout Manual and coastal piloting is absolutely essential prior to arrival at the training site. Failure to fully prepare ensures failure of this course and the waste of a valuable space for someone else that would have been able to participate. The skills taught are Preparing, Training, Supervising, Motivating, Problem solving, Communicating, Coordinating, Commanding, Delegating, Evaluating, Implementing, Goal Setting and Team Building. These skills are taught through group discussion, followed by a plan of action, followed by actual implementation of the skills at sea. The vessel used is a leadership laboratory. When we discuss and teach management skills, we also discuss their application in the ship, school, community and job. The mastering of the skills learned during SEAL will apply to everything you do in life. Each applicant must be physically fit, emotionally mature and arrive with a positive attitude. If the student travels from outside the course area, he or she must be mature enough to travel to and from a designated meeting place in the airport. We can pick up students at curbside, but we cannot meet them at the plane and hold their hand. They must collect their luggage alone and walk to curb side at the baggage terminal. Students must be prepared to operate in remote areas on the open ocean. In short we treat the students with respect and as adults. We expect adult performance. All National BSA rules apply. There will be no use of alcohol, drugs or tobacco products by students or adults. Young men and women are placed on the same boat, with a highly qualified captain and two adult instructors, one of each gender.

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