{"id":43427,"date":"2019-05-17T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=43427"},"modified":"2019-05-17T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:56:12","slug":"largest-freediving-academy-in-the-world-now-open-in-bohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/05\/17\/largest-freediving-academy-in-the-world-now-open-in-bohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Freediving Academy in the World Now Open in Bohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Being\u00a0a part of the \u201cCoral Triangle\u201d\u2014a marine ecosystem that houses different species of coral and fishes, the Philippines is known to have the best freediving spots in the world because of its outstanding marine biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With this, a lot of tourists frequently visit freediving hot spots in the country including Palawan, Cebu, and Bohol. And if you are curious about how this water sport works, the world\u2019s largest academy for freediving has recently opened its doors in Panglao, Bohol last <\/span><b>March<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>FREEDIVE+ Freedive Academy Panglao <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is a p<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rofessional freediving development center situated in <\/span><b>Panglao, Bohol<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the freediving capital of Asia. It is founded by professional freedivers Sura Dai, Cao Yu, and Vincent Sparreboom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bu0BNoWHq8Z\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This center offers freediving courses from two leading and renowned freediving certification agencies namely the <strong>Scuba Schools International (SSI)<\/strong> and <\/span><strong>Association Internationale pour le D\u00e9veloppement de l&#8217;Apn\u00e9e (<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>AIDA<\/strong>). It includes basic training for beginners, different levels of SSI courses, and a complete set of Master courses too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43443\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/freedive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/freedive.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/freedive-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/freedive-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/freedive-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE FREEDIVE+ Freedive Academy Panglao Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The whole facility is designed for freediving enthusiasts with 5 fully-equipped classrooms, a freediving instructor trainer classroom, Apnea gym, four-lane 25 meter-pool, and a yoga and stretching area. They also\u00a0have 50-meter walk access to the ocean where clients can freedive and see the spectacular coral walls underneath the crystal waters of Panglao beach.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Freediving in Panglao Philippines\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/160362465?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, this is just the first phase of Freedive+&#8217;s development. They are aiming to add more facilities like the restaurant and a total of 30 luxury apartments\u00a0to be finished by mid-2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For those who want to enroll in\u00a0freediving training, it costs a starting rate of <strong>$350<\/strong> or more than <strong>Php 18,000<\/strong> <strong>per month<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For more information about Freedive Academy Panglao, you may contact them at 0927-860-5655 or visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freediveacademy.com\/\">website<\/a> or follow their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/freediveplus\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/freediveplus\/\">Instagram<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sources: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freediveacademy.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freedive Academy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com\/worlds-largest-freediving-center-to-open-in-the-philippines\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deeper Blue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/places\/coral-triangle\">World Wild Life<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Image grabbed from\u00a0FREEDIVE+ Freedive Academy Panglao Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREEDIVE+ Freedive Academy Panglao is a professional freediving development center situated in Panglao, Bohol, the freediving capital of Asia. It is founded by professional freedivers Sura Dai, Cao Yu, and Vincent Sparreboom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[460,8913,8910,8906,8905,8909,8911,8908,8907,119,8912,8914],"class_list":["post-43427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-launching-and-opening","tag-bohol","tag-freedive-academy-panglao","tag-freedive-spots","tag-freedive","tag-freediving","tag-freediving-center","tag-freediving-courses","tag-largest-freediving-facility","tag-panglao-bohol","tag-philippines","tag-scuba-schools-international","tag-watersports"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/53285771_2344644952483790_6145186898309739846_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43427"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43485,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427\/revisions\/43485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}