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Freediving e-Learning Platform

Based in Training Videos of the Digitalized Freediving Theory and Skills

About the Platform

Learn freediving from anywhere

Open a freediving course and watch the Educational Training Videos of all the Theory and Diving Skills

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1In general

Watch the Theory and Skills as a Series of Special Educational Training Videos

2What you get

Hundreds of Videos from real freediving training
AI Professional Voice Ppresentations
AI Animations & Drawings

3By Yannis Detorakis

One of the first PADI Freediving Instructor Trainers worldwide
The Author of Several Freediving Manuals - Best Sellers in Amazon
A Freediver Instructor with thousands of Certified freedivers

How to proceed

All Freediving Levels

Choose The Level
Watch the Theory and Skils as a Series of Special Educational Training Videos

Freediving Seminars

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Choose a Theory Subject
Book your live Online Seminar with Y. Detorakis within the next 2 - 3 days
OR watch the Videotaped Seminar on the subject
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Online Freediving Courses

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Freediver

The Freediver level is the basic training in all aspects of freediving, for a person to learn to freedive, as an amateur, up to 10 meters depth.

Freediving Instructor Trainer PADI

Yannis Detorakis

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Advanced Freediver

The second level or Advanced Freediver trains the freediver in deep freediving reaching 20 meters in depth.

Freediving Instructor Trainer PADI

Yannis Detorakis

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Master Freediver

The 3rd level or Master Freediver level, is the highest level of training, in all aspects of deep freediving, and it is designed to develop a freediver’s skills from 20 to 30 meters deep.

Freediving Instructor Trainer PADI

Yannis Detorakis

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Freediving Special Subjects

Special subjects are freediving theory chapters or skills development common for all 3 levels of training or common knowledge for deep freediving (Advanced and Master Freediver Levels).

They are very important topics that usually cover every level of freediving training and therefore they deserve a special place in our digital video training library!

Freediving Instructor Trainer PADI

Yannis Detorakis

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Online Freediving Seminars

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Live Theory Seminars

for all Freediving Courses

Freediver

Advanced Freediver

Master Freediver

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Questions & Answers

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How Questions Work

In the Questions and Answers Section all members can submit any of their questions to be answered by Yannis Detorakis, the Platforms’ owner and designer, as a veteran Freediver Instructor Trainer. You can submit any question about freediving, spear-fishing and underwater photography. Your question can be about everything in the platform: the training videos sector and the freediving theory and skills, of any level and any topic or about the online Seminars in Freediving and our “Magazine” Articles, news and activities. Feel free to ask about anything that caught your attention and you need some clarification or guidance!

Why Learn With Us

Advanced Online Learning

Access quality freediving education wherever you are, whenever it suits your schedule.

Deep Freediving Knowledge

Go beyond passive learning with seminars on-demand, Q&A, and guidance through membership.

Bookstore & Community

Deepen your understanding through curated books, articles, and continuing education resources.

Owner & Instructor

Meet Yannis Detorakis

Yannis Detorakis experience in training freedivers and freediving instructors, exceeds 2,000 certified students, from 2001 to date! But his experience in freediver training spans 38 years, since 1988!

He certified hundreds of freedivers and freediving instructors, from 2016 to 2026, as one of the first PADI Freediver Instructor Trainers worldwide. Between 2017 and 2026 he was the Freediving Training Director at Spyros Kartelias PADI CDC Dive Center in Athens, Greece.

He certified more than 1,500 freedivers the years 2004 – 2016 as the first PADI Freediver Instructor in Greece, teaching his own designed PADI distinctive specialties, at his 5 Star PADI Diving Center “Atlantis Diving” in Athens, Greece. The Freediver courses he designed in 2004 were soon to become the official 3 levels in PADI freediver training (at 2016): Freediver, Advanced Freediver and Master Freediver.

Yannis has published a series of books and manuals about freediving since 1995. Some of them are unique in the world, like the biography of Stathis Hatzis, The Physiology of Freediving and the Equipment of Freediving. His books can be found printed in hard cover or as kindle e-books at all Amazon bookstores, in English and Greek editions.

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Freediving Books by Yannis Detorakis

Underwater Microcosmos of Greek Mani

Yannis DetorakisU/W Photography Microcosmos of Greek Mani The book is a collection of underwater macro-photography of sea creatures and plants covering the seabed and the water from the surface to 40 meters deep. The writer takes us with him in a “virtual” diving voyage to the vertical walls of Greek ...
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