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PADI Freediver Level 1 Course

from $550 per person 

Available in two formats:

  • 3-day standard course

  • 2-day intensive course

The PADI Freediver Level 1 course is your first full certification in freediving, where knowledge, practice, and the ocean come together.

 

We begin in the studio refining breath-hold and relaxation, and follow that with pool training, finning, and equalization skills in a calm, supportive setting. From there, you’ll take these foundations into the open water, learning how to dive safely with a buddy, apply rescue skills, and explore depth with confidence.

 

This course is open to anyone 12 years and older with confident swimming ability and good health. While performance goals are part of the certification process, every journey is individual—progress unfolds at your pace, guided with care.

  • Freediving theory and physiology: breathing cycle, mammalian dive reflex, pressure and equalization, safety and buddy systems..

  • Confined‑water skills: efficient finning, streamlined position, relaxation and recovery breathing, static and dynamic apnea practice.

  • Open‑water skills: free immersion and constant weight dives on a line, equalization technique, safe weighting, ascent control, surface protocols.

  • Safety and rescue: supervision, communication, LMC/blackout recognition, training in how to provide conduct an underwater rescue.

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Blueback PADI Freediver Level 1 Courses

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