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Spearfishing
Basic Spearo COurse (iNCL cERTIFICATION)
R 2000
Getting your Feet Wet:
The Basic Spearfishing Course is designed for the newcomer, and contains various diving and spearfishing skills in order to start off your journey as a spearo.Â
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Learn proper new skills:
On this course you will complete both a basic diving course and a spearfishing orientation as well, you will learn about the spearguns often used in your diving area, the environment and how the winds and currents affect the fish you are hunting. Your instructor will explain the spearfishing gear, safety procedures, rescue and reading of the ocean.
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Focus on Spearfishing:
CMAS/PADI Qualification
Loading, aiming and reloading Speargun
Info on local fish species
Tracking techniques of fish
Information on reading and predicting local conditions
Commonly seen underwater in Cape Town:
Kelp Forests
Cape Bream
Sea Urchin
ship wreck
West Coast Rock Lobster
Red Roman Bream
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Course Requirements:
8 years or older
Medically fit to dive
No Diving Experience Required
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Course Outcomes:
Breathold of at least 90 sec
Dynamic Apnea of 25m or more
Buddy diving skills
Rescue and safety
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What is included:
The basic course is a shallow based course
All gear including speargun will be included
Spearfishing license free of charge
Membership to the South African Underwater Fishing Federation
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Let us take you on it!
SHOREDIVE SPEARO COURSE + spearfishing trip
R 4000
Full Spearfishing Course:
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What sets this course apart from the basic spearfishing course, is the ocean time, depth and extensive in-water training. On this course, you will not only learn about the sport but conditions depending, you will in fact go spearfishing with one of our experienced instructors.
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Learn proper new skills:
The course includes a full diving course and starts with e-learning, which can be done at home, at your own leisure. Once this is completed, the classroom becomes a swimming pool where we learn the basic skills of speargun use, breathold, fin stroke, rescue diving, safety and proper buddy diving. The pool becomes bigger as you step into the ocean, and train the skills of freediving and spearfishing in the ocean. In the ocean we will learn about the ocean life, fish species and legal sizes, where you can spear, proper open water techniques, diving to depths, safety, rescue and buddy diving in open water as a team.
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Focus on Spearfishing:
CMAS/PADI Qualification
Loading, aiming and reloading Speargun
Info on local fish species
Tracking techniques of fish
Information on reading and predicting local conditions
Commonly seen underwater in Cape Town:
Kelp Forests
Cape Bream
Sea Urchin
ship wreck
West Coast Rock Lobster
Red Roman Bream
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Course Requirements:
8 years or older
Medically fit to dive
No Diving Experience Required
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Course Outcomes:
Breathold of at least 90 sec
Dynamic Apnea of 25m or more
Minimum 10m deep dive or more
Buddy diving skills
Rescue and safety
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What is included:
This course is an Ocean Spearfishing Course
A Spearfishing trip to shoot your first fish
All gear including speargun will be included
Spearfishing license free of charge
Membership to the South African Underwater Fishing Federation
Introduction to the Hugeunote Spearfishing Club
DEEP SPEARO COURSE (iNCL cERTIFICATION)
R 4100
Take your Next Step:
This course is for for the person that wants to go to blue water and beyond, further, and learn advanced safety and rescue techniques. Buddy diving, advanced equalization, blue water spearfishing, boat spearfishing, watermanship and discipline.
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Continuing your education:
This course includes a full diving course, and will take you through the journey of different water environments and allow you to learn from highly experienced instructors, how your body works and experience the gear to a more technical degree. The pool session will cover more advanced hydrodynamic techniques, breathing and advanced rescue skills and other techniques that will allow you to advance your spearfishing.Â
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In the open water, the focus will be on control, discipline, proper technique, safety, rescue and deep spearfishing. All this to ensure that you reach your goal depth you set yourself.
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Our instructors will guide you and assist you on various stress tests, shift your mentality of watermanship, and coach you to where you yourself would like to be.
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Focus on Spearfishing:
CMAS/PADI Qualification
Instruction on Pelagic hunting equipment
Flasher Building workshop
Boat Diving Techniques
Training practices for shooting pelagic fish
What you could see on this course:
Blue water diving
Cape Bream
Ship Wrecks
West Coast Rock Lobster
Red Roman Bream
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Course Requirements:
12 years or older
Medically fit to dive
Completed Freediver Course or equivalent
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Course Outcomes:
Breathold of at least 2:30 min
Dynamic Apnea of 50m or more
Minimum 20m deep dive or more
Buddy diving skills
Rescue and safety
performance equalization
self-discipline at depth
PADI FREEDIVE INSTRUCTOR
GET IN TOUCH
From R15 000 - R22 000
A Career in Freediving:
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PADI is the largest and most successful dive training institute in the world, training 70% of all divers worldwide. The PADI Freediver Instructor Training allows you to teach freediving, opening up a career in diving. It allows you to join this extensive team of PADI Professionals and train freedivers.
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Knowledgeable Team:
Instructor Trainer Charl Marais gives you exclusive attention for the full duration of the instructor training. Together with his staff instructor, Charl works in a team with Brittnee Engelbrecht to give you a premium experience in freedive instructor training. With combined experience of more than 20 years in freediving, and PADI professionals for 10 years, the team has trained Freediver instructors all over Southern Africa and Island Africa.
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Course Requirements:
18 years or older
Medically fit to dive
Completed Advanced Freediver Course or similar
It’s a Journey:
From the classroom presentations, to the confined and open water training, the PADI Freediver instructor Training is tailored and specifically designed with state of the art teaching techniques, and the latest freediving techniques to make you the best freediver instructor possible.
What do I get in this course:
Emergency First Response
PADI Freediver Instructor
PADI Adventure Freediver Instructor
Course Outcomes:
Breath-hold of at least 3:30 min
Dynamic Apnea of 75m or more
Minimum 32m deep dive or more (50m Max)
Professionalism
Thorough understanding of Freediver Physiology
Master equalization and hydrodynamics