3 days · Certification
Become a certified freediver.
AIDA2 and AIDA3 run with a minimum of 2 participants at every location. Booking alone? Sign up anyway: we register you and pair you with another student on nearby dates. If no second participant is found for that period, the course may not run.
The world’s most recognized entry-level freediving certification. Over three days you’ll build safe breath-hold habits, learn rescue skills, and dive to 12 m on a single breath (the AIDA2 certification depth; we train a little deeper once you’re ready). You can start from zero — AIDA1 content is included, no prior experience required.
How pressure, oxygen and the dive reflex work. Pool session: static breath-hold (2:00 target) and 40 m dynamic swims.
Buoy setup, duck dives and line dives to 10–12 m. Buddying and rescue practice — the skills that make freediving safe.
Refining technique, the 12 m certification dive (deeper practice up to about 16 m if you’re ready), and a relaxed written exam. Certification registered the same week.
Rental sizes are limited: tell us your height, weight and foot size when booking. If we can’t fit you, we arrange rental from a partner shop at cost. Okinawa site and boat fees vary by location — ask us for a quote.
Yes — AIDA2 is designed as a first course and includes all AIDA1 content. Most of our students have never freedived before day one.
AIDA has partial certifications for exactly this. If you pass the pool requirements but not the open-water ones (usually equalization and the 12 m dive), you are certified AIDA2 Pool Freediver; if the pool requirements aren’t met, AIDA1. Either way you can come back and complete what’s left in a make-up session, paying only the facility fee.
No. AIDA requires at least 2.5 days: two pool sessions plus three open-water sessions spread over at least two days, with no more than two ocean sessions per day. We schedule 3 full days.
Yes. AIDA2 and AIDA3 need 2 participants to run, at every location, but you can book alone: we register you as a solo booker and pair you with another student on nearby dates, then confirm. If nobody else signs up for that period, the course may not run — check the schedule page for dates that already have one person waiting.