Freediving Courses

· Be 18 years of age or older (16 or 17 years old with parent or guardian consent)

· Be able to swim at least 100m non-stop

Requirements: none

Minimum water sessions: 1

This course offers a basic knowledge of freediving and introductory skills such as relaxation of body and mind, kicking techniques, duck dives and equalization.

· Be 18 years of age or older (16 or 17 years old with parent or guardian consent)

· Can swim at least 200m non-stop without fins or at least 300m non-stop with mask, fins and snorkel

Requirements: 2 minutes STA; 40 meters DYN, 12 meters CWT, theoretical exam

Minimum water sessions: 5

The static and dynamic sessions in confined water are used to teach relaxation, breathing, safety and kicking techniques. In the open water sessions students will apply the skills they have learned in the pool / confined water sessions and combine them with the basic skills of open water freediving such as equalizing, duck diving, vertical swimming, body positioning, turns and use of buoyancy. The freediving theory will include: Introduction to Freediving, Freediving Breathing Cycle, Basic Physiology of Freediving, Equalization, Freediving Techniques, Safety in Freediving, Equipment in Freediving, Freediving Disciplines.

· Be 18 years of age or older (16 or 17 years old with parent or guardian consent)

·Can swim at least 200m non-stop without fins or at least 300m non-stop with mask, fins and snorkel

· Have completed the AIDA2 course or have completed the AIDA2 Crossover Evaluation if crossing over from another freediving agency

Requirements: 2:45 minutes STA; 55 meters DYN, 24 meters CWT, theoretical exam

Minimum water sessions: 6

The course is designed to further develop skills from previous levels, to acquire new skills and gain a higher knowledge of safety procedures and techniques. The new techniques that are introduced are free-fall, Frenzel Equalizing, the use of training tables, the risks of increasing and decreasing pressure and also how to minimize these risks. Students will train these skills in the most common disciplines of freediving: Static Apnea, Dynamic Apnea, Free Immersion and Constant Weight.

Theory will include: Physiology, Equalization, Barotrauma, Lungs at Depth, Buoyancy, Shallow Water Blackout, Training Concepts, The Mammalian Dive Response, Decompression Sickness , Surface Intervals and the Freediver’s Code of Conduct.

AIDA Youth Program teaches water skills to children from 6 to 15 years old.

There are three courses for children from 6 to 11 years old: Bronze Dolphin, Silver Dolphin or Gold Dolphin. Each of them takes from 3 days of teaching. 4 days AIDA Junior course is for adolescents from 12 to 15 years old. Each of the Youth courses has a section for parents educating them on proper post-course supervision of children in the water.

Want to learn the technique to equalize to go deeper.