Molchanovs Wave 3

6 Days | Pool & Open Water | 18,500 Baht

The Wave 3 course is the final step before becoming an instructor. This advanced level prepares you to act as an assistant instructor and gives you the foundation to join the Molchanovs Instructor Course if you want to build a professional freediving career.

What You’ll Learn

  • Confident dives to 40m in open water

  • Advanced equalization: Frenzel + mouth-fill, reverse packing

  • FRC dives (Functional Residual Capacity) to adapt for depth

  • Safety protocols to reduce depth-related risks

  • Mental training techniques, including attention deconcentration for focus at depth

  • Insight into ancient freediving practices and their modern applications

Course Benefits

With Wave 3, you’ll expand both your physical skills and mental resilience. You’ll dive deeper, safer, and with greater awareness—while taking the next step toward becoming a professional freediver.

Prerequisites

  • Wave 2 certification (or crossover evaluation)

  • Active first aid certificate

Pool Requirements

  • Static (STA): 3 min 30 sec

  • Dynamic with fins (DYNB): 75 m

  • Dynamic no fins (DNF): 50 m

Open Water Requirements

  • CWTB & FIM: 34–40 m

  • CNF: 25 m

  • CWTB Buddying: 20 m

  • Rescue: 20 m

  • Surface tow: 20 m

  • Retrieve an incapacitated freediver from 30 m