PADI Freediver Course
If you’ve always wanted to enter the underwater world quietly, on your own terms, staying only as long as your breath allows, then freediving is for you.
Freediving is about inward power, discipline, and control. This course will help you break through mental and physical barriers and allow you to reach depths you never thought you could go on one breath.
Taking the PADI Freediver Course with Dive California in San Diego is your first step toward discovering why freediving is becoming the most popular way to explore beneath the surface.
Course Content
- Introduction to Freediving
- Freediving Equipment
- Physiology of Freediving
- Breathing Techniques of Freediving
- Equalization Techniques of Freediving
- Relaxation & Stretching
- Essential Safety Procedures
Course Fee: $450
Lifetime Certification
Already a certified freediver? Take a refresher course for no cost!
[ Availability depends on class size. ]
The PADI Freediver course takes 3 days to complete.
After you book, you’ll get access to PADI Freediver eLearning. Complete all required knowledge reviews and the final exam before your first meeting with your instructor. The eLearning materials are yours to keep so you can reference them anytime.
Day One
Classroom Session | 12 PM to 6 PM
A relaxed and fun classroom session! We’ll review Freediving Theory, Breath Hold Techniques, and Safety Protocols.
Day Two
Pool Training Session | 8 AM to 4 PM
In the confined water session, you’ll get to practice breath hold techniques in the pool.
Goal: static apnea of 90 seconds, dynamic apnea of 25 meters / 80 feet.
Day Three
Open Water Training | 7 AM to 1:30 PM
Now that you feel confident freediving in the pool, we’ll head out to the ocean to practice free immersion and constant weight freedives, while learning proper buddy procedures.
Goal: constant weight freedive of 10 meters / 30 feet
Your instructor will be available after the course to offer you guidance on continued development, freediving progression planning, freediving gear advice, and other consultations!
FAQs
The course fee is $450. Remember that your freediving certification lasts a lifetime and you never have to get it “renewed” as long as you don’t let your skills get rusty.
Your course fee includes:
- Course Tuition
- PADI Freediver eLearning (online study materials)
- PADI Certification Processing Fee
- Pool Sessions
- Open Water Sessions
- Students are responsible for securing their own transportation to the course venues (classroom, pool, and ocean)
- Snacks and drinks
- Required freediving equipment (see next section)
- Freediving Mask & Snorkel
- Freediving Fins
- Freediving Wetsuit
- Gloves & Socks
- Rubber Weight Belt
- To enroll in the PADI Freediver course you must be at least 13 years old
- You need adequate swimming skills (must be able to comfortably swim 218 yards / 200 meters) and be in good physical health
- No prior experience with snorkeling, skin diving, or freediving is required
When you take the PADI Freediver course with Dive California, you’ll have no more than a 4:1 student-to-instructor ratio. We limit group sizes to 4 students to maximize safety and make sure that you get the highest-possible attention and guidance from your instructor.
Why Us?
Here’s why you take the PADI Freediving course with Dive California!
- One course fee, no extra rental costs.
- We’ll offer you a comprehensive and intensive training program so you can master your basic skills and build the competence required to become a confident freediver!
- You’ll have a highly experienced instructor (the #1 PADI Instructor Trainer on the US West Coast and Hawaiian Islands) with over 15 year of freediving teaching experience, holding 4 additional Instructor certifications from other freediving training agencies.
- Low class sizes — you’ll never have more than 4 total students in your course so you’ll get more personalized and detailed attention from your instructor.