Certified Freedivers

Courses · Spearfishing · FunDives · Skill Development
What’s your next adventure? Take your freediving to the next level, spearfishing, explore the best hideouts or sharpen your skills. Whatever you’re looking for, let’s make it happen.
FUNDIVES
  • Freediving Expeditions
  • Boat Trips
  • UnderWater Scooters
  • Location: Malta & Gozo
Let's have some FUN
SKILL DEVELOPMENT
  • Coaching Sessions
  • Spearfishing Courses
  • Workshops
  • Location: Malta & Gozo
improve performance

Certified Freedivers, welcome !

Choose your adventure
All certified freedivers are welcome to join the courses and activities mentioned on this page. It doesn’t matter if you got your freediving certification from APNEA TOTAL, MOLCHANOV, CMAS, SSI, PADI, AIDA or any other recognized certifying agency.
If you are a snorkeler, scuba diver or spearfisher without a certification, you need to get certified as a  Freediver  first.

Continue your Freediving Education

Apnea Total Malta offers courses of all levels, from the beginner freediver to the freediving instructor. Crossovers are accepted for almost all certified freedivers. In case of doubt regarding the certifying level, please contact us.

A female freediver at the surface of the sea holding a snorkel in her hands ready to do a duck dive in the blue water

Apnea Total Courses

Apnea Total relies on a series of 6 courses focused on practice. Two levels for beginners and 4 levels to continue your education. These freediving courses do not require passing a written exam.

Apnea Total was founded over 15 years ago by two freediving enthusiasts with a passion to share. Apnea Total is now a large family scattered across the world and whose freediving certifications are recognized worldwide.

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Molchanovs Courses

Molchanovs educational system is built on 3 recreational freediving courses. All levels combine an online course with in-person intensive water training. Upon completion of a Molchanovs course, you get access to weekly online freediving training.

The founders of Molchanovs are among the most famous names in freediving. Natalia Molchanova, known as the World’s Best Freediver, and her son Alexey Molchanov, multiple world record holder.

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Join a Freediving Activity

If, as a certified freediver, you are not interested in continuing your freediving education but prefer to improve a specific skill or simply enjoy the beauty of Malta's underwater world, a freediving activity is what you need.

Link to Apnea Total Malta Discover Freediving Course

Expeditions


Fun Diving at its best: an unforgettable freediving experience awaits you in Malta's blue water. Explore caves and wrecks with an experienced instructor as your guide.

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Link to Apnea Total Malta Coaching Sessions

Coaching


Improve a specific skill or your overall freediving under the guidance of an experienced and qualified freediving instructor. We will help you reach your goals.

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Link to Apnea Total Malta Boat Trips

Boat Trips


Enjoy a full day of Epic Freediving exploring multiple dive sites and rediscovering Malta from another point of view.

Get Onboard
Link to Apnea Total Malta DPV Tours

DPV Tours


Explore Malta's best dive sites without moving a fin thanks to our Underwater Scooter Tours. Freediving has never been that easy and fun.

Take me there
Link to Apnea Total Malta Workshops

Workshops

Equalization, breathing, how to self train, emergency 1st response, NL, etc. Just name it, we have it! Deepen your freediving knowledge and become a better freediver.

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Link to Apnea Total Malta Training Sessions

Training


Freediving Training on the line with fellow freedivers. You must be able to provide safety to your buddy to join this activity.

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Spearfishing for certified freedivers

We have two one-day spearfishing courses, depending on the level of knowledge and experience in spearfishing and also Spearfishing Safaris and Spearfishing Workshops.

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Discover Spearfishing


The Discover Spearfishing Course covers the basics of spearfishing and is suitable for freedivers with no experience and beginner spearfishermen.

Learn how to Spearfish!
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The Spearfisher


The Spearfisher Course will make you a better and safer underwater hunter. It has been designed for spearos keen to improve their spearfishing knowledge and techniques

Boost your Spearfishing!
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Spearfishing Safaris


Spearfishing sessions to maximize your chances of catching fish in Malta under the supervision and guidance of an experienced freediving and spearfishing instructor.

Let's go Spearfishing!
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Spearfishing Workshops


Customized spearfishing workshops to improve your skills exponentially, expand your knowledge, discover new equipment, etc.

Increase your Knowledge!

What our students say about their experience!

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Nina Dostal
9 October 2026
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Ich habe bei ApneaTotal meinen Advanced Freediver Kurs gemacht und würde es auf der Stelle wieder hier tun! Meine Instruktorin Reggie war stets bemüht, dass ich mich wohl und sicher fühle. Sie war die ganze Zeit so aufmerksam und hat mir dabei so viele Tipps gegeben, wie ich gewisse Dinge verbessern kann. Außerdem war alles total flexibel und unkompliziert, gleichzeitig hab ich mir so viel von diesem Kurs mitgenommen und so schöne Tauchsessions gehabt. Ich kann ApneaTotal jedem empfehlen, der auf Malta nach einer guten Freediving Schule sucht!
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Laurie Tupper
6 October 2026
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Arturo The Man! Incredible last minute organisation of an Advanced Freediver Course for me after my planned school had to cancel last minute. With a few key tips and new pointers I was able to absolutely smash my expectations of what I was capable of before the course. Seems to have great intuition for when to encourage students to push limits and when to slow things down a bit, all with safety as the key priority. Had some equalisation issues on one of my deep diving days so Arturo was patient, kind but firm that it wasn’t the day to push it and bent over backwards to rearrange for another day on my short trip and make sure I could complete my course before leaving Malta. Can’t recommend his coaching enough. Apnea Total also an interesting different association to try out if you have previous experience with a different one (I crossed over from AIDA 2)
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FEIFEI WANG (XIAOYUGANFEIFE327)
2 October 2026
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This is a fantastic dive school. The instructors are great fun, highly responsible and patient with students. I had a really good experience.
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Lorenzo Zini
2 October 2026
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I took the Discover Spearfishing course, and it was a fantastic day. Both the theory and practical sessions are well-structured, and Arturo is truly an expert. Highly recommended.
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Art Is
30 September 2026
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Great experience overall. Went spearfishing for 2 days in a row and I got tons of useful tips on how to approach fish, how to handle the gun etc. Mediterranean is no joke so really need to be on point with the technique. Saw some cool spots as well! Thanks!
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Aurélien Malik Benbernou
26 September 2026
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this is exactly what i was looking for . professionalism in a friendly atmosphere .
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윤현준
21 September 2026
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이집트에서 아이다2따고 처음하는 프리다이빙이어서 조금 긴장된 상태로 펀다이빙을 나갔는데 Reggie강사님의 긍정적이고 밝은 에너지 덕분에 금방 긴장이 풀릴수 있었습니다. 제 컨디션과 실력에 맞추어 다이빙 깊이나 코스(동굴 통과 등)를 그때그때 바꿔주셔서 더욱 재밌게 다이빙을 즐길 수 있었던 것 같습니다. 물 밖으로 나왔을때 걷기도 힘들 정도로 지쳤지만 얼굴은 웃는 얼굴로 나왔습니다. 몰타 프리다이빙 찾고계시면 강력하게 추천드립니다
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Mats
19 September 2026
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I came for the free diving discovery day and then extended it to the full course because I liked it so much and felt so well taken care of. Reggie is a superb instructor, both in theory as in practical sessions. Absolutely professional and safe at every step. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn freediving!
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Stephan Steurer
19 September 2026
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Wir hatten nur einen Tag Zeit und haben uns deshalb für den Discover Course entschieden. Rückblickend die richtige Entscheidung: Der Vormittag bestand aus Theorie und Einweisung, sodass wir die Grundlagen und die Sicherheitsaspekte verstanden hatten, bevor es überhaupt ins Wasser ging. Am Nachmittag folgte die Praxiseinheit in herrlich blauem, klarem Wasser, und wir konnten das Gelernte tatsächlich umgehend und erfolgreich umsetzen. Dazu trägt vor allem Arturo bei. Mit seiner persönlichen und zugleich professionellen Art motiviert er, nimmt sich Zeit und vermittelt ein Gefühl von Sicherheit und Vertrauen, das bei diesem Vorhaben viel wert ist. Dazu kommt seine lockere, humorvolle Seite, die einem die Anspannung nimmt und dafür sorgt, dass man mit Spaß bei der Sache bleibt. Da die Gruppe klein bleibt, kann er auf jeden Einzelnen individuell eingehen, und wer Spanisch spricht, merkt schnell, wie sehr er sich freut, auch mal auf Spanisch zu erklären. Für alle mit knappem Zeitbudget, die Freediving ernsthaft ausprobieren wollen: klare Empfehlung. Wir bleiben auf jeden Fall dran und kommen dafür gerne noch einmal nach Gozo zu Apnea Total Malta, so gut hat es uns gefallen.
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Eva Pot
18 September 2026
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I had an amazing time doing the introductory spearfishing course and freediving coaching sessions. Safety was the first priority which felt very nice, especially with the spearfishing. I found Arturo’s method of teaching very encouraging and I was able to really improve my technique while having a lot of fun!

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