Live Seminar
Freediving Skills
- Freediver Course
- Duration: 4 hrs
- Cost: 20 €
- Participants: up to 4
- Language: English
- Interaction: Questions & Discussion
Master the practical skills required for safe and efficient freediving. This seminar covers equipment setup, buoyancy control, dive technique, equalization, buddy procedures, safety protocols, rescue skills, and the fundamentals of static and dynamic apnea.
Contents
Open Water Skills
- Equipment Placement, Dressing, Preparation and Entry into the Water.
- The technique of surface swimming.
- The initial adjustment of buoyancy on the surface.
- Buoyancy adjustment before each dive: the rule of two thirds of neutral buoyancy at 2/3rds of the diving depth.
- The Technique of the Dive: The Step by Step Method of Performing a Freedive:
- The preparation for apnea.
- The body’s resting position before the dive (Placement of the body on the surface).
- Body preparation (Relaxation).
- The mental and psychological preparation (Self-concentration)
- The breathing method during preparation.
- The last breaths – The final deep inhalation.
- The movements of the dive phase.
- Equalising techniques – “clearing” the ears.
- The equalisation of air pressure inside the mask.
- The movements of the ascent phase.
- The preparation for apnea.
- The Buddy System in Freediving
- Planning a Freedive.
- Organizing a Day’s Series of Freedives.
- Dangerous Incidents in Freediving: Problems that Block or Delay the Ascent.
- Safe Freediving Practices.
- Extra skills:
- The procedures for free immersion.
- The procedures for constant weight freediving along a vertical drop line.
Confined Water Skills
- The steps for static and dynamic apnea.
- The safety procedures for static and dynamic apnea.
- The buddy’s role during static and dynamic apnea.
Rescue Skills
- How you bring an unresponsive (blacked out) freediver to the surface.
- The techniques for rescuing an unresponsive blacked out) freediver at the surface.
Learning outcomes
Participants will learn:
- Proper equipment setup and water entry procedures
- Efficient dive preparation and breathing techniques
- Buoyancy control and equalization methods
- Safe buddy system practices
- Static and dynamic apnea procedures
- Rescue techniques for blackout situations
- Planning and organizing safe freediving sessions
