AIDA 4 - Master Freediver

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The Assistant Instructor course is the highest level of training attainable within the AIDA recreational freediving education system . One of the purposes of this course is to prepare successful candidates for the role of "Assistant Instructor". This new role will include leading an appropriate warm-up session for confined and open water freediving and supervising students of all course levels during their confined or open water sessions.

This course familiarises students with techniques, knowledge and safety procedures for deep freediving that go beyond recreational freediving. The new techniques will include FRC diving, mouth-fill equalization and packing. 

In addition to the in-water skills this course introduces full body warm-ups and stretching, specific stretching of breathing muscles, training concepts and diet that benefits the freediver and help shape their development as a diver. You will also be, acquainted with packing and reverse packing, mainly within vital capacity as a part of the dry lessons.

An important set of skills concerns managing open water equipment. The use of appropriate knots and braiding techniques, setting the depth on the dive line, constructing a safe bottom weight from a weight belt and diving leads, safe handling of other additional equipment (bottom plate, torches, lanyards, etc.).

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 AIDA 3 course or have completed the AIDA 3 Crossover Evaluation if crossing over from another freediving agency
• Have completed the AIDA Medical Form.
• Have completed the Liability Release form.
• Have completed a course in First Aid with CPR within the last two years

• 3:30 minutes STA
• 70 meters DYNB
• 32 meters CWTB
• the theoretical exam-passing score is 75% 

•  On successful completion of this course the student is awarded the AIDA 4 Master Freediver certification and is 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 Physics - Dalton's Law, Boyle's Law, Henry's law, Decompression Sickness, Nitrogen Narcosis, Failure Depth, and how to increase VC and decrease RV, FRC Diving, Mouth-Fill, Packing, Fitness and Training, Nutrition and Diet for Freedivers. [360 mins]
2. Pool session: consists of a minimum of 2 sessions performing statics, dynamics, and safety procedures. [360 mins]
3. Open water sessions: a minimum of 4 sessions over two days practicing the skills of mouth-fill, FRC dives, rescuing a blacked-out diver from 20 meters, and simulating equipment failures and emergencies such as ascending from 20 meters with only one fin or no mask and towing an inert freediver for a minimum of 50 meters. The student will also learn to prepare freediving buoys and lines and set appropriate depths. The student will also have the opportunity to perform a variable weight dive to a maximum depth of 40 meters. [480 mins]

•  Brisbane, Gold Coast

1 - 4 students