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Spearfishing Courses Cape Town
Basic & Shoredive Spearo, Deep Spearfishing
PADI Instructor Training
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Spearfishing Course Cape Town
Why Book a Spearfishing Course in Cape Town?
Our spearfishing course in Cape Town gives you the skills to safely freedive, handle a speargun and understand local ocean conditions. Cape Town’s coastline offers some of the most diverse spearfishing in South Africa.Choose Basic, Shoredive, or Deep. We also run a PADI Freediver Instructor course for professionals.
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A structured spearfishing course gives you the foundation to dive safely, understand local fish species, and read ocean conditions. Whether you’re starting out or refining your skills, training with Apnea Addicts helps you safely sperafish in local waters.
Basic Spearfishing Course in Cape Town
Duration 1-2 DAYS
R 1500
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, including explaining, understanding and using spearfishing gear.
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Learn proper new skills:
On this course you complete both basic diving and an in-depth spearfishing orientation. You learn about spearguns used locally, the environment and how wind and currents affect the fish you hunt. Your instructor will explain the spearfishing gear, safety procedures, rescue and reading of the ocean.
Focus on Spearfishing:
Loading, aiming and reloading Speargun
Learning about standard spearguns and roller spearguns
Freedive techniques that aid Spearfishing
Info on local fish species
Where to spearfish
Training exercises for spearfishing
Tracking techniques of fish
Information on reading and predicting local conditions
Certified Instructor:Â Charl, Dewald or Brittnee
Location:Â Cape Town
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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SHOREDIVE SPEARfishing COURSE In Cape Town
Kelp forest and Ocean Training with Spearfishing Trip
Course Duration 2 days
R 3000
Course Duration 2 days
R 3000
Full Spearo Course:
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 dive training to a depth up to 16m deep and starts with a classroom and breathold session, The classroom then becomes a swimming pool where we learn the basic skills of speargun use, spearfishing equipment, 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:
Loading, aiming and reloading Speargun
Use of a standardand roller speargun and other spearfishing equipment
Deep freediving up to 16m
breathold of more than a minute
Info on local fish species
Cleaning and preparing fish
Tracking techniques of fish
Information on reading and predicting local conditions
Certified Instructor: Charl, Dewald or Brittnee
Location:Â Cape Town
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
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 spearfishing course in cape town
Deep Ocean Training and Spearfishing Trip
Course Duration: 2 days
R 3800
Course Duration: 2 days
R 3800
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 equipment, watermanship and discipline.
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
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.
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.
Focus on Spearfishing:
Instruction on Pelagic hunting equipment
Functioning with reels and buoy lines
Flasher Building workshop
Use of a standard, roller and inverted roller speargun
Deep freediving up to 30m deep
breathold of more than a minute
Boat Diving Techniques
Training practices for shooting pelagic fish
Certified Instructor: Charl, Dewald or Brittnee
Location:Â Cape Town
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 Freediver Instructor Course – Career Path in Diving
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From R15 000 - R22 000
A Career in Freediving:
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.
Course Requirements:
18 years or older
Medically fit to dive
Completed Advanced Freediver Course or similar
Instructor:Â Charl and Brittnee
Location:Â South Africa
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