Learn Freediving in Dahab (Red Sea)

What you can realistically reach: A beginner course (2–3 days) realistically takes you to a calm 16–20 m on a single breath, because the limit at this stage is relaxation and technique, not years of training. Instructor level is weeks of work, not days.

Schools in Dahab (Red Sea)

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Freedive Dahab
  Beginner to Instructor Package / Freediving Master Program (2-4+ weeks)
  Freedive Dahab is an SSI freediving school founded in 2003 by former world record holder Lotta Ericson, offering a Beginner-to-Instructor pathway and a 2-to-4-week Master Program training at Dahab's Lighthouse and Blue Hole sites.
  https://freedivedahab.com/
• Dahab Freedivers
  AIDA Instructor Course (requires AIDA 4)
  Dahab Freedivers is an AIDA freediving school in Dahab running courses from AIDA 1 through the AIDA Instructor Course, plus a 2-to-4-week non-certifying Master Program with multiple coaching sessions weekly.
  https://www.dahabfreedivers.com/
• Touchdown Freediving
  Ultimate Freediver (one-month intensive)
  Touchdown (Touchdown Space) is a Dahab freediving centre founded by Lithuanian record holder Gus Kreivenas, whose one-month Ultimate Freediver intensive combines 10 lectures, 25 dry sessions and 18 water sessions at the Blue Hole.
  https://touchdown-space.com/

The room

• Group — Small by necessity — usually a few students per instructor in the water, for safety.
• A normal day — Mornings on breath-hold theory and dry technique, afternoons doing supervised dives in open water or a pool.
• Who comes — Often solo travellers, divers and freedivers of mixed levels, 20s–50s.

Want the rest — a normal day, first hour to last? Ask the school; a serious one answers in two minutes.

The credential

AIDA 1-4 / Molchanovs Wave 1-3 -> Instructor · Certifying body: AIDA / Molchanovs / Apnea Academy / SSI

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Freediving

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.