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Based in Athens, Greece, Pure Apnea Master Instructor Trainer Sakis Batsos is, to use his own words, “obsessively passionate about freediving”. Sakis’ training philosophy at his school, Freedivers Academy,  is to first make his students feel safe and secure before

Roman Ondruj has been instrumental in developing freediving and Pure Apnea in Eastern Europe over the last decade. Roman has worn many freediving hats. He started as a competitive freediver and reached 85m in the Constant Weight with Fins discipline.

Meet Elys Lai, one of the bright new stars of freediving in Singapore. Elys qualified as a Pure Apnea instructor last year and has been training new freedivers for FreediveXQ. She holds 7 national records and shares her passion for

We caught up with one of Indonesia’s most passionate freediving instructors and freediving photographers, Samsul Rois. Samsul lives in Jakarta, where he helps train new freedivers at the Freediving Society freediving school which was started by Indonesian record holder, Nikita

Vid Ogris has lived the freediving instructor dream life in Asia and is now settled back in his home country Slovenia where he runs his own freediving school Apnea Bled. We caught up with him and found out more about

Nicholas Kouvaras is one of the most experienced freediving instructors in the world. He has been teaching freediving for almost a quarter of a century and is also a highly accomplished underwater photographer and videographer. Nicholas is a very modest