It is decided ! NEMO33 Brussels opens its doors for freediving and apnea.
Wonderful fresh and mineralized water, pleasant to the skin, without chlorine and without smell, heated by solar panels at a tempretaure of 32°-33°C. Increasing depths in the form of bearings to match your levels of learning. Hot showers, clean air, healthy products at our restaurant, a bar with underwater view of the pool, and a shop with materials for apnea,
Does it temp you? Here are the conditions for freediving at NEMO33 - Bruxelles :
1- The sesion reserved for freedivers will be on saturday night between 21h to 23h ONLY WITH A CLUB RESERVATION. Starting on Januay 1st, 2011.
2- During this sesion of 2 hours, the pool of NEMO33 is open for freedivers of any federation (SSI, FFESSM, LIFRAS, NELOS, AIDA, etc) that belong to a freediving club and come with their own instructor - supervisor .
3- The price is 30€ per person for two hours. The club (or federation) that does the reservation must agree to pay for at least 15 people. This price includes only the acces to NEMO33 and not any insurance. The participants must be members of the club that reserves, and the group can not exceed 33 participants.
4- A session can be reserved to only ONE CLUB. A club is defined as an legally formed and autonomous entity .
5- THE CLUB that reserves is ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE for the use of the pool and pit of NEMO33. The standards of the excercices are defined by the responsible of the group and must be aproved by the instructor of NEMO33 that is present. It is asked to all participants to think and act applying the principles of safety and common sense.
6- The visiting club is expected to organize the safety logistics AND to provide ALL the resources necessary to assist the participants. The list of safety material is left to your discretion, but must contain at least oxygen and how to provide it. The club is legally responsible for the safety of all the participants.
7- All participants must respect and follow the instructions of the responsible of the club and the instructor of NEMO33. Here are the minimum rules that should be respected:
- BUDDY SYSTEM : A freedivers must always be supervised by its buddy from the surface from the start of the freedive until 30 seconds after he/she exists the water and he/she signals "OK".
- Respect the surface intervals: For a dive until -20m: the surface interval will be calculated according to the dive time (surface interval in minutes= 2 x dive time). Under 20m : The surface interval should be calculated according to the maximun depth reached (minutes on the surface = the reached depth divided by 5).
- Use of a safety line for all dives on the pit of 35m.
- Not static apnea beyond 2,5m deep.
8- The goal is: ZERO INCIDENTS!
Incidents such as blackouts, samba, loss of consciousness, MUST BE AVOIDED!.
The responsible of the incident must STOP DEFINETELY and will be RESPONSIBLE for the cancelation of freediving and apnea at NEMO33
9- For bookings, email us including your preferences of date and the aproximate number of participants: dive(at)nemo33.com. To confirm the reservation, a payment of 15 participants (15 x 30€ =450€) must be received within 5 days.
10- If the sessions on saturdays evenings are trully successful we will open another additional schedules.
- We do not have yet any apnea materials available at NEMO33.
- The visiting club is allowed to bring all the materials needed for their practice (buoys, ropes, weights). No metalic objets must remain in the pool. Weights and any other metalic objects must be covered by fabric or foam of a minimum of 5cm (to protect the tiles in case of falling pieces).
We open a school of apnea for all the FREEDIVERS and apneists.
The delivered certifications are worldwide recognized (see at the section COURSES under "Golden Palm Price").
You will find all the details clicking on COURSES/SSI, APNEA.
After obtaining one of our certifications, you will have access to special sessions.
We organize a CROSSOVER COURSE for all FREEDIVING or APNEA INSTRUCTORS who want to become FREEDIVING INSTRUCTOR SSI.
Our school is afiliated to SSI, and our instructors (AIDA, LIFRAS, FFESSM, etc) are trained under the standards of SSI.
The wish of our school is to teach rigorously this magical discipline.
Being an INSTRUCTOR at NEMO33 gives you the advantage of teaching under great conditions the whole year, with a motivated team. Your passion for teaching can be combined with your job.
If you wish to do your crossover to FREEDIVING INSTRUCTOR SSI and start this adventure with us, do not hesitate to contact us as soon as possible: aca (at) nemo33.comAll the team of NEMO33 Brussels is waiting for you !