PADI Freedive Instructor Training

 PADI Freediver Instructor Training

Take your freediving to the professional level and learn how to safely and confidently teach others. The PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course develops experienced freedivers into competent instructors who can introduce students to freediving, develop their skills and manage freediver training safely.

Training combines instructor-level knowledge with practical teaching development in both confined and open water environments.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for experienced freedivers who want to turn their knowledge and passion for freediving into professional teaching skills.

It is ideal if you want to:

• Teach PADI freediving courses professionally
• Develop stronger teaching, coaching and presentation skills
• Learn how to manage freediver students safely
• Build a career in freediving instruction
• Add professional freediving instruction to an existing diving career

Prerequisites

To enrol in the PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course, you must:

• Be at least 18 years old
• Hold a PADI Master Freediver certification or qualifying certification from another recognised freediving organisation
• Have completed Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care training, or qualifying CPR and first-aid training, within the previous 24 months
• Provide a medical statement signed by a physician within the previous 12 months

PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors or higher may also qualify through an alternative pathway if they hold the required freediving and emergency-care qualifications.

Contact Cape Town Dive Centre if you are unsure whether your existing certifications meet the entry requirements.

What will you learn?

The course develops both your freediving ability and your ability to teach freediving effectively.

Instructor candidates work on:

• Instructor-level freediving knowledge
• PADI Freediver standards and procedures
• Planning and organising freediver training
• Conducting effective student briefings and debriefings
• Teaching and presenting freediving concepts
• Demonstrating freediving skills clearly and accurately
• Evaluating student performance and providing useful feedback
• Supervising confined-water and open-water training
• Freediving safety, rescue and risk-management considerations
• Developing the confidence and judgement required to teach freedivers professionally

The emphasis is not simply on being a strong freediver, but on learning how to teach, supervise and develop other freedivers safely and effectively.

Course structure

The PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course combines:

• Knowledge-development and instructor workshops
• Teaching and presentation development
• Confined-water training
• Open-water training
• Skill demonstration and evaluation
• Instructor-level assessment

The programme is performance based, and candidates must meet the required knowledge, teaching and in-water performance standards.

Course duration: Contact us for current course dates and scheduling.

Certification and outcome

Successful completion of the programme allows qualifying candidates to earn the PADI Freediver Instructor rating.

As a PADI Freediver Instructor, you enter the professional side of freediving and can begin teaching PADI freediving programmes within the scope of your instructor rating.

The course is therefore not simply an advanced freediving course — it is professional training designed to develop you from an experienced freediver into a safe, capable and confident freediving educator.