Freediving courses
AIDA Instructor since 2018, Vera teaches in different countries will ensure you educate yourself in complete safety and comfort. In March and April 2025, courses will be available in Dahab, Egypt: book your course in the online shop!
Important Note
To make the most of your freediving experience, a good understanding of English, French, or Italian is recommended.
If you're not confident in the water or new to basic swimming and snorkelling skills, I recommend adding a Preparatory Day. This session covers essential techniques such as relaxed breathing, breath-holding, and efficient movement in the water—ensuring you feel comfortable and ready to dive.
Preparatory Day
If you don’t have much experience with being in the water and want to maximise the chances of success for your first freediving course, this preparatory day is perfect for you. Thanks to 2 water sessions and dry exercises, you’ll feel more comfortable and you’ll familiarise with breathing through a snorkel and holding your breath. The idea is to perfect swimming techniques essential to make the most of your following course and to start the next day with a self-confidence otherwise difficult to achieve without preparation.
Prerequisites: be 18 years old, be able to swim at least 100m non-stop
Requirements: none
Course length: 1 day
AIDA 2
The static and dynamic sessions in confined water are used to teach relaxation, breathing, finning and safety techniques. In the open water sessions students will apply the skills they have learned in the pool / confined water sessions and combine them with the basic skills of open water freediving such as equalizing, duck diving, vertical swimming, body positioning, turns and use of buoyancy.
Prerequisites: be 18 years old, be able to swim at least 200m non-stop without fins or at least 300m non-stop with mask, fins and snorkel
Requirements: 2 minutes STA; 40 meters DYN, 16 meters CWT, theoretical exam
Course length: 2 to 3 days
AIDA 3
The course is designed to further develop skills from previous levels, to acquire new skills and gain a higher knowledge of safety procedures and techniques. The new techniques that are introduced are free-fall, Frenzel Equalizing, the use of training tables, the risks of increasing and decreasing pressure and also how to minimize these risks.
Prerequisites: have completed the AIDA2 course or have completed the AIDA2 Crossover Evaluation if crossing over from another freediving agency
Requirements: 2:45 minutes STA; 55 meters DYN, 24 meters CWT, theoretical exam
Course length: 3 to 4 days
MONOFIN WORKSHOP
The AIDA Monofin Freediver course is designed to be an introduction to Monofin swimming and to help the student develop the basic skills, techniques and knowledge necessary to start using the Monofin efficiently. Students will be acquainted with different approaches to freediving with a Monofin, exercises designed to work on this swimming style and ways of planning a training program.
Prerequisites: have completed the AIDA2 Freediver course/ AIDA2 Pool Freediver course or have completed the Crossover Evaluation if crossing over from another freediving agency; have your own monofin
Requirements: none
Course length: 1 day
NO FINS WORKSHOP
The AIDA No Fins course is designed to be an introduction to CNF and to help the student develop the basic skills, techniques and knowledge necessary to become comfortable in swimming without fins.
Prerequisites: have completed the AIDA2 Freediver course/ AIDA2 Pool Freediver course or have completed the Crossover Evaluation if crossing over from another freediving agency
Requirements: none
Course length: 1 day
YOUTH COURSES
There are three courses for children from 6 to 11 years old: Bronze Dolphin, Silver Dolphin or Gold Dolphin. Each course lasts 3 days.
AIDA Junior course is for adolescents from 12 to 15 years old and lasts 4 days of teaching.
Each of the Youth courses has a section for parents educating them on proper post-course supervision of children in the water.
Prerequisites: be 6 years of age or older, the child's own wish to take the course
Requirements: none
