Freediving is the world’s fastest-growing underwater sport. Get in on the action and become a Basic Freediving Instructor! As a Basic Freediving Instructor, you will help others learn to freedive with the Snorkel Diver, Try Freediving and Basic Freediving courses. Gain experience with this entry-level instructor rating.
Once you get comfortable teaching the basics of freediving, take the next step to advance your freediving instructor career. Get started today!
Basic Freediving Instructor
Are you a scuba professional interested in starting a new career in freediving? Introduce water enthusiasts to the exciting freediving world and help them set a free dive record of their own with this entry-level program.
Facts and Training Standards
| Minimum Age for Participation | 18 |
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Training Prerequisites
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| Amount of Academic Sessions | 5 |
| Amount of Pool/Confined Water Sessions | 1 |
| Amount of Open Water Dives | Not applicable / mandatory |
| Maximum Training Depth | Not applicable / mandatory |
| Suggested Duration of the Training Program | 08-12 h |
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Start teaching to further your career
Start teaching Freediving and Ecology Programs to collect valuable teaching experience and generate more income as an SSI Professional! But remember, learning never stops, so continue your professional freediving career by attending an Freediving Instructor Training Course (FITC) to qualify as an SSI Freediving Instructor.
Additional Specialty Instructor qualifications will provide you with more diversity and flexibility, whilst opening up new income options. Becoming a Freediving Instructor is just the beginning of an exciting career pathway.
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Scuba Schools International (SSI) began in 1970, and today, we are the name to trust in the freediving industry. It is easy to go freediving with SSI wherever you choose. We represent more than 3,300 training centers and resorts in over 130 countries and have over 50,000 affiliated SSI Professionals and growing every day.
The experience that SSI has built in the last 5 decades of training divers has resulted in the most sophisticated and effective freediving education system there is. Our progressive and personalized training approach, combined with a scientific education system, ensures you have the best foundation as a freediving instructor in the industry.
SSI’s globally recognized freediving programs are thought to deliver the best freediving experiences to create the best recreational freedivers. By working closely with our freediving professionals and training centers around the world, we ensure you get the best training to become a freediving instructor.
There is an SSI freediving course to suit nearly every freediving discipline, dive environment, and passion out there. SSI Training offers freediving learning materials online in more than 30 languages, so your students can start learning right away!
We look forward to welcoming you to the SSI freediving instructor community with our uncompromising standards and methodology.
Your new career starts here. Join SSI and become a freediving instructor today!
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