Details & Itinerary

Self-paced online learning, classroom session for breathwork and relaxation, pool session for breath-hold coaching and freediving skills:

• PADI FREEDIVER E-LEARNING ONLINE AT YOUR OWN PACE (Allow up to 8 hours)
• CLASSROOM SESSION FOR INDIVIDUAL GOAL SETTING, GAP ANALYSIS & PRACTICAL BREATHWORK EXERCISES
  (includes guided meditation and theory re-cap)
• PERSONALISED COACHING FOR OPTIMAL BREATH-HOLD DEVELOPMENT & FREEDIVING LEARNING
  (learn without the pressure of performance with tailored coaching)

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Before you know it, you’ll be swimming freely underwater with all the beauty and poise you’ve dreamed about.

• Take your snorkelling to new levels with refined breathing and relaxation techniques, and find a place of inner calm in Victoria’s often challenging marine environment
• Learn the core breathhold foundations with 8+ years experienced PADI Freediving and Mermaiding Instructor Trainer, Marlon Quinn and find out why it’s about so much more than just holding your breath
• If your dream is to swim freely underwater, to meet marine life calmly eye-to-eye and enjoy amazing underwater terrain in a range of conditions, then choose WaterMaarq
• Join Melbourne and Victoria’s premiere dedicated freediving school & charter boat, and Australia’s first PADI Freediver Centre
• If you are looking for a better diving experience and to develop your aquatic adventure skills, our breath-hold training methods will take you further

Many people might presume freediving is all about holding your breath as long as possible, pushing through uncontrollable urges to breathe, and then racing to the surface gasping and out of breath. Sounds horrible, right?

At WaterMaarq, freediving is all about moving peacefully with grace underwater, interacting closely and meaningfully with marine life, all in a state of calm and wonderment that brings you the most fulfilling enjoyment one can create safely in the sea.

The PADI Basic Freediver course is the place where you discover more and practice the foundations of this art and discipline of freediving, and as Bruce Lee famously said, “Be water, my friend“.

In this course you’ll learn that holding your breath is not about suffering as long as possible until you can hold no more, it is about finding new comfort and relaxation that means your time swimming underwater is fun, free and safe.

Using classroom breathwork techniques and pool breath-hold training, you’ll connect and develop the way of extending the calm and easy nice phase of breath-hold.

In this way you’ll swiftly notice that gradually increasing your adaptation and quality practice comfortably improves your breath-hold much more significantly than the less effective manner of pushing limits and forcing breathhold. 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

You are guaranteed to learn the discipline and art of freediving in the most professional manner with WaterMaarq. Operating since 2014  WaterMaarq was founded by Master Freediving Instructor Marlon Quinn, who learned to freedive in Italy, Egypt and Greece with World Champions and record holders Umberto Pelizzari and Stavros Kastrinakis. Certified under AIDA, Apnea Academy and PADI Freediver systems, the training methods developed by Marlon are a unique feature of the practical development students will adopt in learning to freedive and becoming certified under the worldwide recognised system of PADI Freediving education.  

EXPERT INSTRUCTORS

What makes the best instructor or coach? It’s a time-honoured question. Is it the best athlete that knows best or the coach that teaches better? How can a student develop and learn the most with the least effort and time?

At WaterMaarq the best instructor is the one that can tailor the learning to each student. To identify each student’s specific needs and shape the learning experience to make the most of the time and training efforts that they share. This provides the student with maximum benefit and the instructor with the rewards of seeing their student grow beyond their belief.

As Victoria’s Number One Adventure Tourism operators we are experts in taking new and beginner freedivers from fear to inner calm with our highly experienced and certified freediving instructors by your side, all in just a few quality focussed sessions.

Join the award-winning WaterMaarq on a PADI Basic Freediver course and experience it for yourself. See guest reviews on TripAdvisor.

FREEDIVING CERTIFICATION

The PADI Freediver education system is recognised worldwide, so wherever you go, you can freedive with ease as a certified freediver.

Successful completion of the PADI Basic Freediver course essentially qualifies you as a pool freediver, a certification recognised across the world. This is the first half of the level one training known as PADI Freediver. 

Once students complete the Basic course, then the next step is to attend two PADI Freediver training boat dives. These take the learning of the Basic course in the pool and in the open water students then apply these skills to depth training on the dive line.

Learning to freedive on a course fast-tracks your learning in a safe, methodical manner in a controlled environment, it’s the best way to make progress properly and safely.