Courses/ Certification Options

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Skin diving is snorkeling while making breath-hold dives to observe aquatic life, up close and personal. 

To enroll in a PADI Skin Diver course, you must be at least 8 years old. You need adequate swimming skills and comfort in the water. No prior experience is required.

The PADI Skin Diver course teaches you about:

• How to choose, adjust and use skin diving equipment.
• Basic safety guidelines for being in and around the water.
• Snorkeling and skin diving techniques including checking buoyancy, surface swimming, clearing water from your snorkel and performing effortless surface dives.
• Going on an optional skin dive at a local dive site.

The PADI Basic Freediver course is a subset of the PADI Freediver course. It's a great first step for developing solid freediving skills. You learn basic freediving principles and focus on practicing breathhold techniques in a pool or confined water site.

The PADI Basic Freediver course consists of two main phases:

• Knowledge development through independent study with the PADI Freediver eLearning (or your instructor may conduct class sessions if not available in a language you understand).
• Confined water session to learn breathhold techniques as well as static and dynamic apnea, plus proper buddy procedures. Goal - static apnea of 90 seconds and dynamic apnea of 25 metres/80 feet.

To enroll in a PADI Freediver course you must be at least 12 years old. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with snorkeling, skin diving or freediving is required.

The PADI Freediver course consists of three main phases:

• Knowledge development about freediving principles through independent study with PADI Freediver eLearning (or your instructor may conduct class sessions if not available in a language you understand).
• Confined water session to learn breathhold techniques as well as static and dynamic apnea. Goal - static apnea of 90 seconds and dynamic apnea of 25 metres/80 feet.
• Open water sessions to practice free immersion and constant weight freedives, plus proper buddy procedures. Goal - constant weight freedive of 10 metres/30 feet.

This course is for any self-taught freediver who wants to better manage the risks inherent in this activity, freedivers certified by other agencies that wish to learn PFI’s methods of safety, or aquatic professionals that want to be able to better react to potentially hazardous situations.

• Minimum age of 10 for Junior Safe Buddy or 16 years for full Safe Buddy
• Competent swimming skills
• PFI Snorkeler/Skin Diver or equivalent skill level

• Equipment requirements
• Safety and problem management
• Safety for constant ballast
• Safety signals for static
• Safety for dynamic (optional)
• Recovery breathing
• Buoyancy for safety
• Buddy separation
• LMC and surface blackout

The PADI Advanced Freediver course consists of three main phases:

• Knowledge development about advanced freediving techniques and equipment. You'll study independently using the PADI Freediver eLearning (or your instructor may conduct class sessions if not available in your language).
• Confined water session to learn stretching and relaxation techniques as well as refine static and dynamic apnea. Goal - static apnea of 2 minutes, 30 seconds (2 minutes for freedivers younger than 18) and dynamic apnea of 50 metres/165 feet (40 metres/130 feet for freedivers younger than 18)
• Open water sessions to practice deeper free immersion and constant weight freedives, along with additional buddy procedures and rescue techniques. Goal - constant weight freedive of 20 meters/65 feet (15 metres/50 feet for freedivers younger than 18)

Contact us to discuss private training needs, private classes, family classes, and/or springs snorkel/freediving local or travel tours and adventures. 

A $150 non-refundable deposit secures your spot! You will receive applicable e-learning packages included in this deposit.

Two-day Freediver course pricing 

(includes Basic and Freediver courses):

$499

Advanced Freediver course pricing

(includes boat fees):

$799

Private training

(tailored to your needs):

$250/ half day

Snorkel/Freediving/Family rates:

Call to inquire