ADVANCED FREEDIVER
Push Your Limits with Confidence
Full Course Information
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COURSE DETAILS:
Achieving a new freediving time or depth is an incredible feeling, fulfilling the desire to do your best. The PADI Advanced Freediver course helps refine your skills and allows you to progress while learning how your body performs during apnea.
About the Course
Achieving a new freediving time or reaching a new depth is an incredible experience. It fulfils that personal desire to excel and take pride in your accomplishments. The PADI Advanced Freediver course is designed to help you refine and improve your freediving skills, allowing you to progress gradually while learning how your body performs during apnea.
The PADI Advanced Freediver course consists of three main phases:
Knowledge Development: Learn about advanced freediving techniques and equipment. Study independently using the PADI Freediver eLearning program, or join instructor-led classroom sessions if eLearning is unavailable in your language.
Confined Water Session: Learn stretching and relaxation techniques and improve your static and dynamic apnea skills. Goals: Static apnea of 2 minutes 30 seconds (2 minutes for freedivers under 18) and dynamic apnea of 50 meters/165 feet (40 meters/130 feet for those under 18).
Open Water Sessions: Practice deeper free immersion, constant weight freedives, buddy procedures, and rescue techniques. Goal: Constant weight freedive to 20 meters/65 feet (15 meters/50 feet for those under 18).
Equipment
You need a freediving mask, snorkel, bifins, wetsuit, and weight belt. Your instructor may allow the use of monofins. You'll also need a surface signaling device and a freediving computer (or a depth gauge and timer).
What to Bring
Low-volume mask and J-style freediving snorkel
Freediving fins OR bifins (standard SCUBA fins)
Surface signalling device
Freediving computer (or a depth gauge and timer).
Appropriate exposure protection
A change of clothes
A secure swimsuit
Towels
Water and snacks
Notebook
Please note. Students are responsible for supplying their own equipment, such as highlighted above. A computer may be rented from the company. Weight belts and weights will be provided.
Important Medical Information for Freediving and Mermaid Students
Freediving requires a certain level of health and physical fitness. If you have chronic medical conditions, are taking specific medications, or have recently undergone surgery, you may need written clearance from a physician before participating in any diving activities.
Please download and review the Diver Medical form before enrolling in a freediving or mermaid course to determine whether you'll need medical approval.
Please note: Instructors, Divemasters, and dive shop staff are not qualified to provide medical advice—only licensed medical professionals can assess your fitness for diving and provide medical clearance if necessary.
INCLUDED
Highly trained dive instructor.
All necessary equipment (the student must supply freediving masks, fins, and exposure suits)
REQUIREMENTS
Minimum age: 15 years
PADI Freediver certification (or equivalent from another organization)
CPR and First Aid training within the last 24 months (EFR Primary and Secondary Care)
You may complete CPR training during the course. Your instructor might also offer the PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Specialty.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
This course is made up of 2 components, you need both to complete the certification.
Your e-Learning is your self-study material from PADI and the training course is with our instructors at Pocna Dive Center. Contact us if you have any questions.
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High-Quality Equipment & Facilities
Scuba diving equipment allows you to visit the underwater world by making it possible to breathe, see, and move comfortably while below the surface. It is important that all our equipment including our compressors are fully maintained and regularly checked for both your comfort and your safety. We want to make sure that you are fully comfortable and confident with our equipment. To help, we offer opportunities to practice in our on-site pool, or we provide refresher classes for experienced divers who haven't been in the ocean for a while.
Environmental Responsibility
At our center, we take this responsibility seriously. We are proud members of Green Finns and PADI Aware ambassadors. In addition, we collaborate with the Saving Our Sharks Foundation and run our own Ambassadors Del Mar initiative. This initiative is focused on providing children and fishermen on the island with the opportunity to learn about conservation and diving.
