Lead Freediving Adventures

Freediving is the world’s fastest-growing underwater sport. Get in on the action and become an SSI freediving instructor today!

Do you dream of spending your days exploring the underwater world on a single breath? Push yourself to new levels of underwater breath-holding and teach others to do the same by training freediving. Learn how to become a freediving instructor and join this tight-knit community. SSI training offers the industry’s best digital online materials so you can get started right away.

If you want to live a life full of adventure, become an SSI Freediving instructor today!

Become a Freediving Instructor

Depending on your previous SSI training, you can become a Freediving Assistant Instructor, Freediving Instructor, or Advanced Freediving Instructor in no time. Then, expand your skills by taking a higher-level freediving course and core specialty programs.

If every freediving course you teach becomes your passion, join elite freedivers and take yourself to the highest SSI training levels with the Freediving Instructor Trainer course. A lifetime of underwater adventure starts here. Become an ambassador of the freediving lifestyle with SSI today!

Freediving Specialty Instructor

SSI Freediving Specialty Instructors can teach various SSI specialty courses to help students further their freediving training and improve their technique. Help progress students faster by teaching fun programs and introducing them to new freediving equipment.

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Basic Freediving Instructor

With the Basic Freediving Instructor course, active SSI scuba professionals can easily expand their diving career into the freediving market. Help water enthusiasts learn to freedive by teaching them basic freediving skills in this entry-level program.

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Freediving Assistant Instructor

Become an SSI Freediving Professional. If you are an experienced SSI Freediver and have completed the Training Techniques specialty, you can take the first step toward your professional freediving career by becoming a Freediving Assistant Instructor.

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Freediving Instructor

Become an SSI Freediving Instructor and take the first step toward a career in training freedivers. Create lifelong water enthusiasts and introduce them to the world of breath-hold training in a fun, safe environment with the SSI educational system.

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Advanced Freediving Instructor

Become an SSI Advanced Freediving Instructor and help your customers advance their freediving certification. You will step into an exciting new professional career with opportunities worldwide and train freedivers the skills needed to start competitive freediving. Join SSI today!

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Performance Freediving Instructor

Help your students set freediving records by teaching them the highest level of freediving skills as a Performance Freediving Instructor. Increase your students’ breath-hold time in this challenging yet rewarding freediving course, and enjoy a variety of employment opportunities around the world.

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Freediving Assistant Instructor Trainer

Join one of the most elite groups in SSI training as a Freediving Assistant Instructor Trainer. Spark passion in new freediving instructors as you help conduct some of the highest-level SSI courses. Enjoy global career opportunities - start your Freediving Assistant Instructor Trainer course today!

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Freediving Instructor Trainer

Spark passion in every new SSI freediver by achieving the highest level in breath-hold training – an SSI Freediving Instructor Trainer. Join an elite group of exceptional freedivers and enjoy global job opportunities. Start your SSI Freediving Instructor Training course today!

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Extend your Skills to further your career

Learning never stops! Continue your career by qualifying further in other training categories like Mermaid, Swim, Lifeguard and/or Scuba Diving. Additional qualifications will provide you with more diversity and flexibility as well as opening up new income opportunities.

Becoming an SSI Freediving Instructor is just the beginning of an exciting career pathway. 

Swim Teacher Adult

Do you want to inspire lifetime swimmers? Make a career out of swimming? Become a professional swimming teacher with SSI! Learn to teach babies, children or adults to swim, plus beginners up to competitive swimmers. Make a difference! Start today!

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Mermaid Instructor

Start a new career and become a mermaid instructor. Work your fairy tale job and go mermaid swimming in the most beautiful places in the world. Your professional SSI Mermaid Instructor certification is recognized worldwide!

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Lifeguard Instructor

Take the next exciting step in your Lifeguard career and learn how to be a lifeguard trainer! Train professional lifeguards. Become an SSI Lifeguard Instructor now with this internationally recognized course. Start making a difference today!

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Join us on an exciting journey of discovery and learn more about exhilarating diving adventures, dedicated conservation initiatives, and innovative educational opportunities that will help you illuminate the extraordinary beauty of the underwater world. Let's explore the underwater world together and delve into the hidden wonders beneath the gentle waves.

Explore career opportunities for freediving professionals worldwide

Check out MyDiveGuide - a unique dive site database featuring more than 10,000 dive sites, wildlife maps, featured destinations, and more. Plan an exciting vacation to become a freediving instructor, log your dives to track your progress and find freediving career opportunities. Your next freediving adventure starts here!

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Florida

The Sunshine State Florida offers many great and divers dive sites from the tropical Florida Keys to deep shipwrecks and crystal clear freshwater springs.

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Hawaii

Every possible type of adventure can be found in ’tropical paradise’ Hawaii including dramatic jagged cliffs, active volcanoes and clear turquoise waters.

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Greece

Greece makes for an excellent diving location where you can explore waters with incredible visibility, see a whole variety of marine life and discover wrecks.

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Mozambique

Mozambique has amazing offshore marine parks such as Quirimbas National Park

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Philippines

The Philippines is an archipelago composed of over 7,000 islands in three main regions: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

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Fiji

The archipelago of Fiji is as the Soft Coral Capital of the World, for its 80 different soft coral species that can be found by divers from all over the world.

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