Are you a passionate freediver looking to turn your passion into a career? Becoming a PADI Freediver Instructor is the perfect choice for you!

DEEPHUMANS is the first PADI Freediver Instructor Development Center in Turkey with 7 branches, offering all PADI Freediving courses from Beginner to Instructor level.

Since the launch of the PADI Freediver program, it has quickly become the most popular freediving education system worldwide, and freediving is one of the fastest-growing water sports, making the role of a freediving instructor highly impressive.

After completing the PADI Freediver Instructor course, you will have the opportunity to travel the world, meet interesting people, experience different cultures, and share your passion for freediving with others!

Course Program

The 10-day PADI Freediver Instructor course consists of three sections: Knowledge Development, Confined Water Workshops, and Open Water Workshops.

Knowledge Development

You will learn how to conduct PADI Freediver courses, review freediving physiology and psychology, and acquire coaching techniques to support student development and rescue techniques using a student-centered approach.

Confined Water Workshops

You will learn how to conduct effective presentations, demonstrate skills, ensure student safety underwater, and assist with overcoming mistakes.

Open Water Workshops

Starting with fundamental topics, you’ll learn how to select a dive site, organize and supervise students in a group, recognize and correct common mistakes, and how to handle them most efficiently.

Prerequisites

To enroll in the PADI Freediver Instructor course, you must:

• Hold a PADI Master Freediver (or equivalent) certification
• Be at least 18 years old
• Be a current Emergency First Response (CPR/First Aid) Instructor
• Provide a current medical statement signed by a doctor within the last 12 months (confirming no contraindications for freediving)

If you are not an Emergency First Response (CPR/First Aid) Instructor, you can complete this certification up to 2 days before starting the Freediver Instructor training.

ALREADY A PADI INSTRUCTOR?

Are you interested in becoming a PADI Freediver Instructor? Are you a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor looking to expand your career into freediving? How about increasing your opportunities by also teaching freediving? Would you like to change your career to focus solely on teaching freediving?

Our training lasts for 10 days and includes:

• PADI Freediver course content
• PADI Advanced Freediver course content
• Five additional days of training (including effective fin use, developing training plans, creating high CO2/low O2 tolerance, dry land training, stretching, and more)
• Workshop series – equalization clinics, static and dynamic apnea, open water logistics, rope management, etc.
• Assistance with Equipment Maintenance
• Providing advice on topics such as marine life, equipment selection, and the best dive locations for both students and certified divers!

In the Freediver Instructor training, we cover:

• PADI Standards for Basic Freediver / Freediver courses
• Conducting theoretical lessons in a classroom
• Presenting confined and open water skills
• Risk Management, Legal Liability, and Freediver Safety
• The Freediving Profession and Your Role as an Instructor
• Marketing Plan

We will teach you how to anticipate and resolve common problems that arise in PADI Freediver courses.

Performance Requirements:

• Maximum 40-meter constant weight dive
• Rescue a diver who has blacked out from 15 meters and perform 50 meters of surface artificial respiration
• Dive 15 meters 5 times within a 1-minute breath interval
• 4 minutes static apnea
• Maximum 100 meters dynamic apnea
• 400 meters swim without equipment (max. time 10 minutes) and 800 meters swim with equipment (max. time 15 minutes)
• Assist a diver who has blacked out and lost motor control in shallow water

Upon successful completion of this program, you will be certified to teach and certify PADI Basic Freediver and PADI Freediver courses.