This website is home to a group of Freedivers known as Apneists
UK. Our membership makes up the large proportion of Freedivers
in the North of the UK and Wales.We have sessions in Manchester,
Stockport, Liverpool, Sheffield, Yorkshire and Bangor. We are
growing steadily each year finding more freedivers to enjoy the
sport with us. We are passionate about the sport and have been
doing it for over a decade, we are in the sport because we love
it, that is very important when looking for a group. We run the
UK Nationals, have UK squad members as part of the group, we have
recreational trips and basically Freedive whenever we can.
The group started with a couple of Freedivers, one of whom was
the former UK Freediving champion John Moorcroft who is now still
a lead member of the group and helps teach new freedivers. The
group steadily grew based around our main training site which
is Dorothea quarry in North Wales where we have permanent lines
set up specifically for Freediving. The club is a loose group
of people from all walks of life, some are recreational some are
competitive some are professional teachers of the sport. All have
the same goal: To help each and every person in the group to train
safey and help the freediver next to them to reach their goals.
We run professional AIDA Freediving courses for those in good
health and over 18 years of age. Our classrooms and pool for the
courses we run are based in Manchester at
Aquatech Diving School and our Internationally Qualified Instructors
will travel the length and breadth of the country for groups if
sufficient interest is there. We have our club meet every Monday
from 7.00pm - 9.00pm. We also have pool sessions in Liverpool
(Fridays 8.30pm) and Stockport (Sundays 8.00pm) with other informal
sessions too.
After qualifying we have a very active group and do lots of diving,
no armchair Apneists allowed. We train depth at Capernwray in
the lakes and Vivian in Llanberis and Dosthill in Tamworth. Our
true home though is Dorothea quarry in North Wales, nowhere else
is deep enough.