Mermaiding Swim Classes
Do you want to be a mermaid?
Bring yourself, your friends, your family, whoever.
Our mermaid training classes are open to beginner to ensure that everyone can live their mermaid, merman, or merpeople dreams.
- Know Safety in water
- Know How to swim well with mermaid tails
- Know How to hold your breath & avoid panic in water
- To Introducing the art of swimming in water (combining art & sport)
- To educate students about protecting the environment, especially the ocean
- To find and train new athletes to be submitted to the National and International Mermaid Championship
PADI Certification
When you become a PADI diver, you join the largest community in the world for ocean change. With a network of 6,600 dive centers and resorts,128,000 professional members and over 29 million certified divers to date, we have a tremendous opportunity to mobilize millions of PADI Torchbearers to save the ocean.
In our mission to safeguard our blue planet, the PADI community with PADI AWARE Foundation is turning the tide on ocean change, but this is just the beginning.
Discover Mermaid
BEGINNER
The Discover Mermaid™experience introduces simple mermaid activities in confined water (i.e., a pool or place with pool-like conditions), shallow enough in which to stand. It is designed as a flexible, informative, enjoyable, and controlledexperience centered on letting you discover what it’s like to mermaid dive.
Padi Discover Mermaid Requirements
- To enroll in a Discover Mermaid experience, you must be at least six years old. • You need to be in good physical health • Comfortable in the water. • No prior experience with snorkeling, skin diving or freediving is required.
- You need to be in good physical health
- Comfortable in the water.
- No prior experience with snorkeling, skin diving or freediving is required.
The PADI Discover Mermaid experience consists of two introductory phases:
- After signing up for the PADI Discover Mermaid program you will listen to a briefing from your PADI Mermaid Instructor to learn the basics about being a mermaid.
- A shallow water session in which you'll wear a mermaid tail (and depending on the situation, perhaps other additional mermaid costuming) followed by mermaid swimming, going underwater and games.
- Approx. 2sessions/1day
- Mermaid Equipment Rental (fin and tail)
- Documentation by GoPro and Phone assisted by instructor
- Bali Mermaid School certification
Basic Mermaid
BEGINNER
The PADI Basic Mermaid™ course combines learning supporting knowledge and principles with a confined water skill development session to introduce the fun of fundamental mermaid diving. The course covers mermaid diving’s background and culture, primary safety considerations, equipment and basic water skills.
Padi Basic Mermaid Requirements
- To enroll in the PADI Basic Mermaid course, you must be at least six years old.
- You need to be able to swim at least 25m/80ft without swim aids,
- Able to float comfortably at the surface for at least 3 mins and
- In good physical health.
- No prior snorkeling, skin diving or freediving course completion is required
The PADI Basic Mermaid course consists of two phases:
- Study independently using PADI Basic Mermaid eLearning (or your instructor may conduct class sessions if not available in your language).
- A confined water (pool or pool-like location) session to learn and practice basic mermaid diving skills, problem prevention and handling, and how to make mermaid dives
- Approx. 4sessions/2days
- PADI official certification
- Mermaid Equipment Rental (tail and fin)
- T- Shirt
- Documentation by GoPro and Phone assisted by Instructor
PADI Mermaid
BEGINNER
The PADI Mermaid™ course includes knowledge development and at least two water skill sessions that develop more dynamic mermaid skills beyond Basic Mermaid™, including many skills that make mermaiding an underwater self-expressive art, separate from other types of diving. (Note that the PADI Mermaid course includes Basic Mermaid, so you can start with PADI Mermaid – there is no need to take Basic
Mermaid separately)
Padi Mermaid Requirements
- To enroll in a PADI Mermaid course, you must be at least ten years old.
- You need to be able to swim at least 50m/160ft without swim aids.
- Able to float comfortably at the surface for at least 5 mins and in good physical health.
- As an entry-level mermaid diving course, no prior experience with diving of any kind is required.
The Padi Mermaid Course Has Two Phases
- Knowledge development through independent study with the PADI Mermaid eLearning (or your instructor may conduct class sessions if not available in your language).
- Two confined water sessions to learn and prepare for mermaiding, rescue/problem management skills and the conduct of mermaid dives. You also learn mermaid skills, such as dolphin (butterfly) kicks, C-shape and U-shape side turns, and some skills distinct to mermaid diving, including backward somersault turn, underwater handshaking mermaid bubbles, and back glides.
- Approx. 6sessions/3days
- PADI official certification
- Mermaid Equipment Rental (tail and fin)
- T- Shirt
- Documentation by GoPro and Phone assisted by instructor
Advanced Mermaid
CONTINUING-EDUCATION
In the PADI Advanced Mermaid™ course, you’ll build on your PADI Mermaid ™ certification and apply it to the open water environment. You’ll learn the basics of how the open water environment differs from a pool or confined water (larger, deeper, more variable conditions) and be introduced to open water mermaiding techniques. You’ll also learn about aquatic life – what to expect, how it can affect you, and how you avoid harm.
Padi Advance Mermaid Requirements
- To enroll in the PADI Advanced Mermaid course you must be 12 years old or older.
- Have a PADI Mermaid certification (or a qualifying certification from another mermaid organization).
- You need to be able to swim at least 100m/320ft without swim aids.
- Able to float comfortably at the surface for at least 10 mins.
- In good physical health.
The Padi Advance Mermaid Course Consists Of Three Main Phases:
- Knowledge development through independent study with the PADI Advanced Mermaid eLearning (or your instructor may conduct class sessions if not available in your language).
- At least two confined water sessions, in which you'll learn to prepare for mermaiding, rescue/problem management skills and the conduct of mermaid dives. You also learn mermaid skills, such as dolphin (butterfly) kicks, C-shape and U-shape side turns, and some skills distinct to mermaid diving, including backward somersault turn, underwater handshaking mermaid bubbles, and back glides.
- Open water sessions in a natural local body of water, or purpose-built site significantly larger than a pool, suited to mermaid diving in which you learn and practice the set-up, conduct and execution of open water mermaid dives, including environmentally friendly mermaid diving techniques.
- Approx. 6sessions/3days
- PADI official certification
- Mermaid Equipment Rental
- T- Shirt
- Documentation by GoPro and Phone assisted by Instructor
- Transportation to open water spot
