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Lead Freediving Adventures

Freediving is the world’s fastest-growing underwater sport. Get in on the action and become an SSI freediving instructor today! Do you dream of spending your days exploring the underwater world on a single breath? Pushing yourself to new levels of underwater breath-holding and teaching others to freedive? If you want to live a life full of adventure, become a freediving instructor.

Become a Freediving Instructor

Depending on your previous SSI training, you can become a Freediving Assistant Instructor, Freediving Level 1, or Level 2 Instructor in no time. Then, expand your skills by taking a higher-level freediving course and core specialty programs. If every freediving course you teach becomes your passion, join elite freedivers and take yourself to the highest SSI training levels with the Freediving Instructor Trainer course. A lifetime of underwater adventure starts here. Become an ambassador of the freediving lifestyle with SSI today!

Freediving Specialty Instructor

SSI Freediving Specialty Instructors introduce students to advanced training programs to further their freediving training and improve technique. Help progress students faster by teaching fun programs and introducing them to new freediving equipment.

Freediving Assistant Instructor

Become an SSI Freediving Professional. If you are an experienced Level I freediver who has completed the Training Techniques specialty, you can make the first step into your professional freediving career today.

Basic Freediving Instructor

Active SSI scuba professionals can easily start a new career in freediving with the Basic Freediving Instructor course. Help water enthusiasts learn to freedive and show them how to set a free dive record of their own with this entry-level program.

Freediving Instructor Level I

Become an SSI Freediving Instructor Level 1 and take the first step of a career training freedivers. Create lifelong water enthusiasts and introduce them to the world of breath-hold training in a fun, safe environment with the SSI educational system.

Freediving Instructor Level II

Become an SSI Freediving Instructor Level 2 and help others improve their freediving technique. You will step into an exciting new professional career, discover freediving instructor jobs and train freedivers around the world. Join SSI today!

Freediving Instructor Level III

Help your students set freediving records by teaching them the highest freediving skills as a Freediving Instructor Level 3. Increase your students’ breath-hold time in this challenging yet rewarding course and enjoy freediving jobs around the world.

Freediving Assistant Instructor Trainer

Spark passion in every new SSI freediver by achieving the highest level in freediving instructor training. Join an elite group of exceptional freedivers and enjoy global job opportunities. Start your SSI Freediving Instructor Trainer course today!

Freediving Instructor Trainer

Spark passion in every new SSI freediver by achieving the highest level in freediving instructor training. Join an elite group of exceptional freedivers and enjoy global job opportunities. Start your SSI Freediving Instructor Trainer course today!

Extend your Skills to further your career

Learning never stops! Continue your career by qualifying further in other training categories like Mermaid, Swim, Lifeguard and/or Scuba Diving. Additional qualifications will provide you with more diversity and flexibilty as well as at the same time opening up new income options. Becoming a Freediving Instructor is just the beginning of an exciting career pathway.

Swim Teacher Adult

Do you want to inspire lifetime swimmers? Make a career out of swimming? Become a professional swimming teacher with SSI! Learn to teach babies, children or adults to swim, plus beginners up to competitive swimmers. Make a difference! Start today!

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Mermaid Instructor

Start a new career and become a mermaid instructor. Work your fairy tale job and go mermaid swimming in the most beautiful places in the world. Your professional SSI Mermaid Instructor certification is recognized worldwide!

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Lifeguard Instructor

Take the next exciting step in your Lifeguard career and learn how to be a lifeguard trainer! Train professional lifeguards. Become an SSI Lifeguard Instructor now with this internationally recognized course. Start making a difference today!

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Explore career opportunities for freediving professionals worldwide

Check out MyDiveGuide; a unique dive site database featuring more than 10,000 dive sites, wildlife maps, featured destinations and more. Plan an exciting vacation to become a freediving instructor, log your dives to track your progress and find freediving career opportunities. Your next freediving adventure starts here!

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Florida

The Sunshine State Florida offers many great and divers dive sites from the tropical Florida Keys to deep shipwrecks and crystal clear freshwater springs.

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Hawaii

Every possible type of adventure can be found in ’tropical paradise’ Hawaii including dramatic jagged cliffs, active volcanoes and clear turquoise waters.

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Greece

Greece makes for an excellent diving location where you can explore waters with incredible visibility, see a whole variety of marine life and discover wrecks.

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Mozambique

Mozambique has amazing offshore marine parks such as Quirimbas National Park

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Philippines

The Philippines is an archipelago composed of over 7,000 islands in three main regions: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

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Fiji

The archipelago of Fiji is as the Soft Coral Capital of the World, for its 80 different soft coral species that can be found by divers from all over the world.

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Federated States of Micronesia

Divers and Snorkelers from all around the world come every year to visit these picturesque islands, Micronesia.

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Spain

From the cool Atlantic waters of the Bay of Biscay in the north, to the warmer Mediterranean Sea to the south, Spain is perfect for year-round diving.

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Malaysia

One of the most exotic and favorite diving destinations is Malaysia.