About Us
It’s about the family and the ocean.
Get ready to experience the unexpected. Be prepared for your family’s transformation. You will be amazed at how much your kids will pay attention and be present when they know what they are about to see and do is in real-time and not going to be replayed to watch on YouTube later. Family safety is first, and education and fun are top priorities. We love to go scuba diving.
Kids Sea Camp partners with personally selected, highly qualified, family-friendly PADI 5 Star scuba diving resorts to co-create special family event trips 100% focused on family time, family activities, and family dive training. These trips are for families with kids and grandkids who want to learn to dive, enjoy diving together, and meet other like-minded families. Our trips include room, diving as scheduled, select excursions as scheduled, meals stated, dive training stated for qualified students, kids dive rental gear, private instructors, private boats, and course materials for training courses purchased. Trips can also include other sports, culinary activities, yoga, and blow-karting. Each trip is unique to the destination you choose.
At Kids Sea Camp, you can help save sharks from extinction, restore ancient corals, explore sunken wrecks, jungle bike through a 200-year-old sugar plantation, take off on a magical cruise around Darwin’s Towers, kayak the Rock Islands of Palau and dive below the majestic Pitons of St. Lucia.
Founder Margo Peyton chose to be a PADI organization and provide a legacy of professional leadership, safety, and quality training to the next generation of divers. Learn more about Margo.
She selected a dive team of PADI Pros and five-star resorts worldwide to work with and provide engaging, interactive programs and opportunities to immerse your children from ages 4 to 17 in the underwater world through educational PADI training programs.
Some of the courses and programs offered are SASY (kids ages 4-7), PADI Seal Team (Ages 8 -11), Jr.Open Water Certification and Jr. Scuba Diver certification (ages 10-14), Jr. Adventure Diver (already certified kids ages 10-11), Jr. Advanced Open Water (already certified kids age 12-14), Open Water certification for kids and adults ( age 15+), and Advanced Open Water for kids and adults (already certified age 15+).
Plus, there are many PADI specialties courses such as photography, wreck, deep diver, underwater naturalist, rescue, master diver, night diver, shark diver, etc. Kids Sea Camp also teaches and trains students aged 18 and up for PADI Pro courses such as Dive Master and Instructor level courses.
Margo has crafted unique full-trip itineraries with unparalleled adventures, allowing families to bond, interact with local cultures, learn history, engage with wildlife, and meet like-minded scuba diving families from around the globe.
Travel on a Kids Sea Camp adventure once, and you will become part of a worldwide network of scuba diving families who keep coming back every year. See our Kids Sea Camp team.
MARGO PEYTON: Margo will receive the prestigious 2025 Beneath The Sea Pioneer of the Year award. In March of 2024, Margo was inducted into The International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame, located in Grand Cayman. She was awarded only the second PADI Lifetime Achievement award in 2020. by Drew Richardson, President of PADI. Sylvia Earl was the first recipient of that award. Margo has also received multiple times the PADI Elite MSDT instructor award, the 2019 Beneath The Sea Diver of the Year, the 2018 DEMA Hall of Fame, and the Reaching Out Award.
Margo was inducted in 2009 to the Women Divers Hall of Fame, 2016 SCUBAPRO Deep Elite Ambassador, 2024- 2017 PADI Ambassa diver, PADI Award of Excellence in training & education. In 2017, Margo was awarded by Rainer Jens of National Geographic Kids as The Family Travel Association’s Person of the Year Award. The Seiko 2017 Sea Hero Award with Scuba Diving Magazine. Margo has contributed to over 8,000 PADI youth diver certifications.
Margo has been a contributor and travel writer for Skin Diver Magazine, Sport Diver Magazine, Dive Training Magazines, DAN, Scuba Diving Magazine, Diver Magazine, Undersea Journal, and Departures Magazine. Margo is an expert on kids and diving, education, and training, and she has over 20 years of data and expertise continually in the diving industry. Margo is also a co-founder of Ocean Wishes a non-for profit that provides training grants, education and funds for coral restoration projects around the world.
Margo Peyton receives DEMA’s 2018 “Reaching Out” Award.
A pioneer in the family dive training and travel market, Margo continues to be a leader in this field. As the owner and founder of Family Dive Adventures & Kids Sea Camp and (501c) Ocean Wishes, Peyton’s efforts to connect and educate families through diving around the world have done much to help grow the industry. Since its inception in 2000, Kids Sea Camp has been responsible for more than 8,100 youth diver certifications, including some high-functioning special needs adults and children. With 24 weeks a year, spanning 13 countries, it’s common to have three generations of divers on any given week. Her mission is to help families disconnect from their virtual worlds and reconnect through diving and travel.
Peyton is a member of the Women Diver Hall of Fame and the Family Travel Association’s (FTA) board of advisors and was initially the sole representative for the diving industry. She is also a PADI Amasadiver and a PADI Youth Advisory Committee member. She is recognized as an industry authority on youth diver education. Nearly every industry dive publication seeks Peyton’s expertise for family travel and youth-related articles, including DAN, Sport Diver, Diver UK, Scuba Diving, Dive News Group, Undersea Journal, Diver, and Dive Training. Peyton also works to make a difference by providing scholarships, training grants, and internships for the next generation of divers. She financially contributes to and sponsors various conservation programs that address issues like marine habitat conservation and shark protection. Peyton inspires people of all ages and has been instrumental in growing the dive industry by inspiring younger generations and their families.
Want to know what Kids Sea Camp and Margo Peyton are all about? (see links)
https://www.scubapro.com/deep-elite-ambassadors
https://www.padi.com/ambassadivers/margo-peyton
http://www.alertdiver.com/DAN-Member-Profile-Margo-Peyton
https://familytravel.org/board/margo-peyton/
https://www.scubadiving.com/margo-peyton-joins-scuba-divings-sea-heroes
https://www.sportdiver.com/article/news/kids-sea-camp-curacao-episode-wins-2-emmy-awards
https://padiprosamericas.com/2016/07/27/my-padi-interview-margo-peyton-family-dive-adventures/
How our families describe what Kids Sea Camp is:
“They are kids scuba camp. They provide the world’s best kids’ scuba vacations.”
“Kids Sea Camp is a kid-dive vacation that adults also get to attend. It is a family scuba diving camp. Many people who attend with diving families, but they are nondiving adults, say we are a family adventure camp.”
Social media and Scuba Diving Magazine call us the best family dive vacation because we offer family dive trips and kids’ dive trips, where kids learn to scuba in a custom-created, safe, kid-friendly environment.
Terrific quality kids’ scuba training is not easy to find. It’s available at very few PADI dive shops around the world. Kids Sea Camp is one of the few organizations that provide PADI Seal Team and SASY programs during family dive holidays. Most kids’ scuba holidays or family scuba holidays don’t offer private boats or friendly, private, kids-friendly pro dive staff. Kids Sea Camp events include the kid’s scuba gear and dive gear needed in the package and rental scuba equipment for adults who do not own gear and need to rent dive gear.
Kids Sea Camp is a PADI 5-star scuba shop selling dive gear for families traveling with them.
Kids Sea Camp provides an online scuba store that offers the following: scuba masks, Scuba fins, dive regulator systems, BCs, dive computers, crew coats and boat coats, dive apparel, COVID protective face masks, dive bags, travel luggage, hats, T-shirts, kids’ dive gear, adult dive gear, complete scuba gear sets, luggage for family dive travel, and dive site flip charts.
Kids Sea Camp was voted #1 in family dive travel by Scuba Diving Magazine readers in 2020 — 2024.
Kids Sea Camp provides Bonaire dive trips, St. Lucia dive trips and vacations, liveaboard dive travel, Roatan dive trips & vacations, Palau family dive trips and vacations, luxury dive liveaboards trips on the Arenui, Luxury honeymoon, and romantic dive vacations for adults. We also provide empty nester dive vacations. Private holidays and family or couple-dive vacations can be booked to Fiji, Indonesia, Maldives, the Philippines, the Cayman Islands, and many more.
Just give us a call today to book your next great adventure vacation. 803-419-2556