AIDA Level 3 Advanced Freediver

Description

• Prerequisites:
  • 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
  Requirements: 2:45 minutes STA, 55 meters DYNB, 24 meters CWTB, theoretical exam-passing score is 75%
  Minimum water sessions: 6

  The course is designed to further develop skills from previous levels, to 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 also how to minimize these risks. Students will train these skills in the most common disciplines of freediving: Static Apnea, Dynamic Apnea, Free Immersion and Constant Weight Bi fins.

  The theory will include: 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.

  INSTRUCTOR SUPERVISION

  Active AIDA Instructor or Higher

  KEY STANDARDS
  • Student to Instructor ratios for pool or confined water: 8:1 with a certified assistant 12:1
  • Student to Instructor ratios for open water: 4:1 with a certified assistant 6:1
  • Minimum Classroom Sessions (if teaching): 3 (minimum 3 hours total)
  • Minimum Knowledge Review Session (if self-study): 1 session of min. 90min
  • Minimum Confined Water Sessions: 2
  • Max Confined Water depth: 5m
  • Minimum Open Water Sessions: 4 over at least 2 days
  • Max Open Water depth: 30m
  • The course should run over at least 3 days