NAUI Freediver Course

[island_sands]

Has anyone done this course? I met a guy this evening who is a NAUI Freediving Instructor. He said he did the course in Thailand.

 

[beero1000]

I don't know about NAUI but I took a PDIC freediving course at dutch springs, PA. It was good because I was just starting and needed someone to show me what to do and how to do it. It was 2 days and $250. by the second day i was comfortably diving to around 100 feet.

 

[Amphibious]

I am a Naui Skindiving instructor (well, it;s not valid anymore), have never heard of a NAUI freediving Instructor ticket.

 

[island_sands]

yeah sounded weird to me. I said to the guy are you sure it's not the skindiving programme? He reckons he had to dive to 30m.. but as he was in Thailand it was too shallow so only did 27m.

I am not knocking him or anything.. but it just didn't sound right.

 

[island_sands]

I don't know about NAUI but I took a PDIC freediving course at dutch springs, PA. It was good because I was just starting and needed someone to show me what to do and how to do it. It was 2 days and $250. by the second day i was comfortably diving to around 100 feet.

Very nice! do you still have the manual for that?

 

[Amphibious]

doesn;t sound right, I'm not aware of any Naui course that has a breath hold requirement like that. maybe he was trying to impress, pull some digits?

 

[tylerz]

I was just down in the Bahamas, coming from Canada, and a fellow and I were discussing abilities while hanging out on the line... it went something like this:

other guy: "... yeah, I am having a hard time with my ears, but even so the other day I hit a PB of 110."

tylerz: compute, beep, compute, blurp, blurpute, "So, how deep can you go in a minute-fifty?"

other guy: blank stare, long pause, awkward silence, "Umm, a minute-fifty? I don't know... I can go 110..."

tylerz: interupt, feeling stupid, "Oh right! You guys are imperial here. 110 feet! Gotcha."

other guy: cracking a gut, "110 meters!!!! Hhaha, no way, you thought... ahahah!"

Point of the story... maybe there is a metric problem here.

 

[island_sands]

no, this is guy is local (from Emirates) and they work in metres.

 

[Stephan Whelan]

There is an official NAUI programme. I have seen the manual and course outline at DEMA. I believe it was an offshoot from Kirk's time in Cayman but i'm not 100% sure about that.

What I can tell you is that it does exist.

 

[Jon]

NAUI has had a freediving manual out for quite some time- I think it's called MASTERING BREATH HOLD DIVING. I'm not sure if they have a distincitve specialty or not but that's what they guy might hav written up- just like Sam and I have done with PADI.

Kirk's manual and program were written for IANTD- since he was a trimix instructor trainer for them first. They have a freediving manual and an ADVANCED FREEDIVER MANUAL. He helped to write them both.

I have copies of both the NAUI book and the IANTD book. They are both good, but the book Umberto came out with, in English, last year is much more detailed.

Jon

 

[beero1000]

Very nice! do you still have the manual for that?

yea, I still have the two pamphlets. one is a short outline (5-6 pages) of what was covered and another is was written by Trace Malinowski (who also taught the course) and is about 20 pages long.

I did a quick search and found these links

http://forums.deeperblue.net/general-freediving/21594-iantd-freediver-program.html

http://hometown.aol.com/tracemalin/

 

[DanielMontreal]

I did a freediving class in Thailand.Was with apnea total in Koh Tao.With F.R.E.E. not NAUI.Maybe the guy just got mixed up.Who knows.

 

[tylerz]

How was the F.R.E.E course?

 

[DanielMontreal]

Awesome to say the least.
Going back to do the master freediver internship (6 weeks) in a few months.
Monica and Eusebio are great.
Their website is Apnea Total