AIDA 3 - Advanced Ocean Freediver

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The course is designed to further develop skills from previous levels, acquire new skills, and gain a higher knowledge of safety procedures and techniques. 

The new techniques that are introduced are free-fall, Frenzel Equalizing, the use of training tables, the risks of increasing and decreasing pressure, and how to minimize these risks.

Includes all gear during class to use (wetsuits, fins, snorkels, weights), pool entry, boat trip to and from the dive site, underwater videos, and unlimited deep pool sessions to practice.

• Be 18 years of age or older (16 or 17 years old with parent or guardian consent)
• Have completed the AIDA2 course or have completed the AIDA2 Crossover Evaluation if crossing over from another freediving agency
• Have completed the AIDA Medical Form.
• Have completed the Liability Release form.

• 2:45 minutes STA
• 55 meters DYNB
• 24 meters CWTB
• the theoretical exam-passing score is 75% 

• After successfully completing this course, the student is awarded the AIDA 3 Advanced Freediver certification and registered on the AIDA website Education Online System (EOS). 

The AIDA 2 course consists of three introductory phases:

1. Theory: The instructor will deliver a class in person focusing on knowledge development, including Physiology, Equalization, Barotrauma, Lungs at Depth, Buoyancy, Shallow Water Blackout, Training Concepts, The Mammalian Dive Response, Decompression Sickness, Surface Intervals and the Freediver's Code of Conduct.  [240 mins]
2. Pool sessions:  based on practicing the freediving skills of static apnea, dynamic apnea, and rescues to an advanced level. This consists of 2 pool sessions across two days. [360 mins]
3. Open water sessions: students will practice the freediving skills of free immersion, constant weight, equalization, and safety to an advanced level. This consists of 4 open water sessions across two days. [480 mins]

 Brisbane, Gold Coast

1 - 4 students