Courses

Master Freediver Course (AIDA 4)

This 4-day intensive course allows you to dive to a maximum depth of **40m** with an independent buddy or professional guide, and teaches you not only how to improve your diving but how to improve your safety and the safety of others.

This course familiarizes students with techniques, knowledge and safety procedures for deep freediving that go beyond recreational freediving. The new techniques will include **FRC diving, mouth-fill equalization, and packing**. The skills are developed within these categories of freediving: Static Apnea, Dynamic Apnea, Constant Weight, Free Immersion and Variable Weight.

In addition to the in-water skills, this course introduces full body warm-ups and stretching, specific stretching of breathing muscles, training concepts and diet that benefits the freediver and help shape their development as a diver. You will also be acquainted with packing and reverse packing, mainly within vital capacity as a part of the dry lessons.

An important set of skills concerns managing open water equipment. This includes the use of appropriate knots and braiding techniques, setting the depth on the dive line, constructing a safe bottom weight, and safe handling of other additional equipment (bottom plate, torches, lanyards, etc.).

One of the purposes of this course is to prepare successful candidates for the role of “Assistant Instructor”. This new role will include leading an appropriate warm-up session for confined and open water freediving and supervising students of all course levels during their sessions.

Theory Sessions:

• Physics – Dalton’s Law, Boyle’s Law, Henry’s law
• Decompression Sickness, Nitrogen Narcosis, Failure Depth
• How to increase VC and decrease RV, FRC Diving
• Mouth-Fill, Packing, Fitness and Training
• Nutrition and Diet for Freedivers