Ocean Freediving Lanzarote

Sergio Soria runs the school and lists himself as an Apnea Academy instructor, an AIDA instructor trainer and an SSI instructor. Courses run from a Discovery session through levels one, two and three, a combined one-and-two, basic and advanced monofin, an online equalisation course, a Surf Survival course and an instructor course. Sites named include open water around the island, the Museo Atlántico, wrecks and lava tubes.

WHAT IT IS AND IS NOT. The certification on offer is freediving. The site says that spearfishing is among the things you can do here, and that is carried as written rather than promoted into a course. That is the ordinary shape of instruction across most of Europe: you learn the breath-hold from an agency-certified school and the hunting from a club or a person, and a reader booking on the assumption that the two come together should know before paying.

WHY THAT DISTINCTION IS WORTH THE WORDS. Breath-hold training is the part with a fatality attached and the part where certification means something checkable. It is the right half to be formally taught.