Certification
Certification
AIDA Freediving Instructor is where personal depth progression becomes teaching responsibility. You arrive with AIDA 4 Master Freediver or crossover equivalence, current first aid with CPR, and performance numbers that would have sounded impossible before you started freediving. The course trains you to deliver AIDA student courses from pool introductions through advanced open water with rescue discipline at the centre of every session.
Minimum seven days blend classroom, confined water and open water with teaching assessments, written exams and a research presentation. Mouth-fill coaching feels awkward on land before it clicks underwater. That is normal. Instructor trainers watch if you can keep students calm when contractions start, not if you hit personal bests every day. Until then, dry equalisation drills look ridiculous in a hotel corridor. That is the point.
Cross-agency cards do not replace AIDA standards. Leave a comment when you book with crossover status, first aid expiry and Instructor Trainer availability.
AIDA Instructor is assessed through written exams, performance standards, teaching practice and presentation.
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Find activitiesIt is AIDA's professional instructor course qualifying you to teach AIDA freediving student courses. You must already meet AIDA 4 personal standards and pass instructor teaching assessments.
It is not a shortcut from recreational cards without crossover evaluation and performance proof on the line.
Insurance, centre contracts and IT invitation sit outside the certifying week itself.
AIDA 4 or equivalent crossover, age eighteen plus, current first aid with CPR within two years, and instructor performance requirements met during the course.
Leave a comment when you book with agency crossover status and recent depth log.
Minimum seven days per AIDA key standards with defined classroom, pool and open water session counts. Many centres run longer if weather or student readiness requires extra water time.
Do not book a flight home the morning after the scheduled last day. Instructor courses over-run when presentation marking runs late.
Examples include STA four to five minutes, DYNB over ninety metres, CWTB and FIM forty to fifty metres, CNF over twenty metres, plus rescue and stamina tests. Exact standards are set by AIDA and verified by your Instructor Trainer.
Arrive already close to numbers. Instructor course is not the place to learn Frenzel from zero.
Yes. AIDA 2-4 theory exams at ninety percent pass and instructor exams at seventy-five percent pass, alongside practical teaching and performance assessments.
Study before arrival. Re-sitting exams eats water time everyone needs.
Instructor Trainer assigns a topic at least one month before the course. You deliver written material and an oral presentation extending AIDA course knowledge.
Start early. Last-night slides show in your delivery.
Other agency instructors and advanced divers must complete AIDA crossover evaluation to prove AIDA 4 equivalence before instructor training. Cards alone do not skip performance and theory checks.
Leave a comment when you book with your non-AIDA certifications for crossover planning.
Personal freediving kit you trust at instructor performance level, notebook, presentation materials and any rigging tools your centre specifies.
Spare masks and lanyards matter when you are in the water all week.
Instructor Trainers may defer elements with a development plan. Blackouts or loss of motor control during standards attempts fail the course until remedial training.
Conservative training beats heroic depth days that end the pathway.
Teach AIDA courses at affiliated centres, build student pipelines, and progress toward Assistant Instructor Trainer or IT pathways when invited and experienced.
Insurance and centre affiliation are separate from the plastic instructor card.
adventuro lists AIDA Instructor courses at established depth venues with Instructor Trainers. Compare line infrastructure, boat support and crossover services.
Leave a comment when you book with AIDA 4 date, first aid expiry and preferred course dates.
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