Ready to take your freediving career to the next level? This course is your route from certified Freediver Instructor to a genuinely sought-after professional rating, teaching deeper, more demanding students. Over seven intensive days you'll master coaching advanced apnea and open-water technique, rescue scenarios and depth supervision, walking away authorised to teach the full curriculum and stand out in a competitive freediving job market.

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About This Course

The PADI Advanced Freediving Instructor course is the next professional milestone for instructors who have already earned their PADI Freediver Instructor rating and want to teach at a higher level. It is a demanding, seven day programme built around one clear goal: preparing you to confidently and safely certify PADI Advanced Freedivers.

Because this is an instructor-level qualification, the course goes well beyond simply repeating advanced apnea and open water technique. You will work on how to teach depth-focused freediving skills, how to coach students through the mental and physical demands of deeper, longer dives, and how to run advanced training sessions that keep every participant safe.

Safety sits at the centre of everything covered here. You will refine your ability to supervise buddy pairs at depth, manage rescue scenarios specific to advanced freediving, and instil the discipline and self-awareness that advanced freedivers need to progress responsibly.

By the end of the course you will be authorised to teach the full PADI Advanced Freediver curriculum, adding a genuinely sought-after qualification to your instructor portfolio and opening the door to working with more experienced freediving students.

The process

How The Course Works

Step 1
Proving Your Track Record
Before you can move up, PADI wants to see you have already put in the teaching hours. You need a solid certification history as a Freediver Instructor and current EFR Primary and Secondary Care training behind you, so the foundations are properly in place before you take on deeper, more demanding disciplines.
PADI states candidates must have certified at least 25 PADI Freedivers and completed EFR Primary and Secondary Care training within 24 months.
Step 2
Advanced Disciplines, Advanced Teaching
This is where you build the skill set to safely coach divers into deeper, more technical freediving disciplines. You refine your own performance under a Course Director's eye while learning how to plan sessions, manage risk and bring students along safely as depths and demands increase.
Step 3
Instructor Evaluation
Your teaching is put to the test under direct supervision before the rating is signed off. Once you are through, you are recognised as an instructor who can take freedivers well beyond entry level - a genuinely sought-after credential in the freediving world.

Course curriculum

What You'll Learn

Learning Outcomes

Teach the PADI Advanced Freediver course
train advanced apnea and open-water freediving
safety protocols for advanced freediving

Getting ready

Before You Start & What's Next

Prerequisites

PADI Freediver Instructor rating
PADI Master Freediver certification
at least 25 certified PADI Freedivers issued
EFR within 24 months
medical clearance within 12 months

Next Steps

PADI Master Freediver Instructor
PADI Freediving Instructor Trainer (via Freediving Instructor Examination)
Additional freediving specialty instructor ratings

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Quick facts

Duration

7 days of structured training

Location

Unit 4, Bellman Court, Great Knollys Street, Reading, RG1 7HD

Certification

Recognised PADI qualification on completion

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