PADI Beginner Freediver Course

Start your Freediving Journey here!

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Pre-requisites: 

• Ability to swim at least 200m, unaided. 

• 12 years of age. 

• Good physical health. 

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Required Equipment: 

• Mask

• Snorkel

• Wetsuit 

• Weight belt + Weights

• Fins

We are able to provide hire equipment at an extra cost, or we can help you with a heavily discounted Freediver package, exclusive to or our students. 

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Location: 

Queenscliffe 

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This course focuses on giving participants the theoretical understanding and practical skills that are required to develop their breath hold capacity, in addition to general freediving skills.

 

Course Outcomes: At the end of the PADI Beginner Freediving course, participants will be able to understand and discuss the importance of freediving specific equipment, key safety concepts and freediving anatomy and physiology. Additionally, participants will be able to demonstrate basic freediver skills, such as breath holding, static apnoea, dynamic apnoea, free immersion and rescue skills, amongst others.

 

Course Objectives: 

• Discuss the core disciplines of freediving.

• Understand the benefits of specific Freediving equipment, how to equip and utilise safely.

• Gain a basic understand of freediving physiology and anatomy and apply to freediving.

• Discuss and demonstrate how to equalise. 

• Discuss and demonstrate increasing breath hold ability.

• Demonstrate safe breathing practices. 

• Demonstrate the role of the 'buddy' diver in static and dynamic apnoea.  

• Understand and demonstrate static apnoea, dynamic apnoea, free immersion and duck diving.

• Recognise and recover a freediver in distress, including shallow water blackout.

• Demonstrate freediver rescue techniques. 

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Performance Criteria:

• Demonstrate the ability to swim continuously for 200m unaided or 300m with a mask, snorkel and fins. 

• Demonstrate how to correctly set up and put on freediving equipment appropriate for static and dynamic apnoea. 

• Demonstrate safe and proper breathing techniques for freediving. 

• Perform at least three correctly executed static apnoea attempts, with at least one 90 seconds in duration. 

• Demonstrate correct buddy procedures. 

• Perform at least one dynamic apnoea attempt, under the water for a distance of 25m.

• Demonstrate the rescue of a Freediver simulating a blackout on the surface and under the water. 

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What's Included:

• PADI Basic Freediver certificate course (first half of the PADI Freediver certificate).

• Lifetime access to PADI online e-learning modules.

• Face to face theory session.

• Freediving equipment discussion and demonstration.

• Practical pool session.

• Complimentary access to our online video catalogue.

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Price: $369