All Island School students are instructed and certified in SCUBA and free-diving. Weekly dives give students a personal connection to the subjects they study. While diving, students are able to visit themes discussed in the science curriculum. Supplementary rescue, navigation, and diving naturalist skills are all required components of our dive program.

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The Sea Kayaking Program offers students a unique opportunity to explore their surrounding environment. Students participate in a three-day and an eight-day expedition during their semester. The emphasis of the three-day expedition is introduction to kayak travel and safety skills, coastal navigation, camping skills, and leadership skills such as effective communication and teamwork. On the eight-day expedition, students are given the opportunity to practice and refine many of the skills learned on the previous trip. Students actively lead the group on and off the water by selecting campsites, preparing food and shelter, and planning their route and activities. During this longer excursion, students also participate in a 48-hour solo experience that offers a time for reflection on the semester and life. This time of solitude is a rare challenge for a high school student and is often a highlight of the program. The 8-day expedition is set near the peak of the semester to clarify and enforce the importance of making connections between the classroom and the outside world. Students return to campus with a feeling of empowerment and focus to excel during the remainder of their semester.

It may sound confusing those who associate north as "up", but it makes perfect sense to Bahamians who orient themselves according to the direction of the ocean currents that run south to north, a legacy of a long sailing tradition. That is one of the purposes of the trip-to orient students to the Eleutheran perspective by taking them on a three day cultural and natural adventure tour of the island. Over the course of the trip, students are given time to explore the various settlements around the island and are encouraged to talk to and ask questions of the people they meet, applying the ethnographic techniques learned in Humanities.  The days are also filled with excursions to local attractions, such as beaches for body surfing, warm water pools for relaxation, bat caves to hike through, tidal channels that offer a rapid-like ride, and ocean holes to snorkel.  To create a context for their visits to the various settlements and natural features of the island and to help guise their curiosity, students are given historical, anthropological and geological articles relating to Eleuthera, as well as unanswered questions about each stop. The Down Island Trip aims to model the place-based learning philosophy, that our cultural and natural surroundings, wherever we may be, have much to teach us about other people, our environment and ultimately ourselves.