Irish National Freediving Association

🇮🇪🌏💦 REPRESENT IRELAND at the AIDA World Championships!

Calling all Irish freediving athletes 📢👋! Registration is now OPEN:

The 35th AIDA Depth World Championships will take place from September 20 - October 3 2025, in Limassol, Cyprus. 💦

We are now inviting Irish athletes with active membership to apply to compete! ☘️💪

🐋 Available disciplines: CNF, CWTB, FIM, CWT

🤙 In the case that that the number of applicants exceeds the places available, team selection will be based on ranked points earned in competition over the previous 18 months. As per AIDA standards, witnessed performances can also be accepted, but will be evaluated at 80% of the points.

🤜🤛 Athletes wishing to compete must have the financial means to do so. However, subsidies towards the competition entry fees will be available. This allotted amount from AIDA International will be split amongst those Irish athletes who apply, with others in their applicable gender category.

📋 If you are interested in representing Ireland at the depth world championships:
• send us your details
• with which disciplines you’d like to compete in
• as well as your highest AIDA ranked points in those disciplines

📬 DM us here, or email to AIDA Ireland;
[email protected]

📆 Applications are open until the June 14.

Let’s go Ireland ☘️🙌!

☘️ Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! 🇮🇪 Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

🍻 Cheers to all Irish freedivers at home & abroad! 💪🏅

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Represent Ireland at the AIDA World Championships! 🇮🇪🌏💦

Calling all Irish freediving athletes 📢👋!

The AIDA Pool World Championships will take place from June 25th to July 3rd in Wakayama Japan. 💦

We are now inviting Irish athletes with active membership to apply to compete! ☘️💪

🤙 In the case that that the number of applicants exceeds the places available, team selection will be based on ranked points earned in competition over the previous 18 months. As per AIDA standards, witnessed performances can also be accepted, but will be evaluated at 80% of the points.

🤜🤛 Athletes wishing to compete must have the financial means to do so. However, subsidies towards the competition entry fees will be available. This allotted amount from AIDA International will be split amongst those Irish athletes who apply, with others in their applicable gender category.

📋 If you are interested in representing Ireland at the pool world championships:
• send us your details
• with which disciplines you’d like to compete in
• as well as your highest AIDA ranked points in those disciplines

📬 DM us here, or email to AIDA Ireland;
[email protected]

📆 Applications are open until the 15th March.

Let’s go Ireland ☘️🙌!

Previous members SAVE €5 on your 2025 membership if you sign-up now! 🤙

By renewing for 2025 within 3 months of your 2024 membership expiring, you do not have to pay the €5 registration sign-up fee. All those registering for the first time are only required to pay this fee only once upon initial sign-up!

PREVIOUS MEMBERS: check your inboxes for relevant info. 🤟🧜🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️

NEW MEMBERS: go to this Google Form Link for registration steps! 🤜🤛💦
https://forms.gle/dMRaPb6HRH9xwA9b9

Contact our e-mail with any questions you may have:
[email protected]

2025 Memberships NOW OPEN 🥳🇮🇪💦 Join us!

In 2024 our memberships rose to 60+ members in just a few months of our foundations being laid! ☘️🌍🌊 To see the enthusiasm & desire to grow this sport together in Ireland & with Irish freedivers around the globe shows so much promise for all we can do as a community moving forward.

Exciting times are ahead & we are stoked to have even more of you be a part of them! 🤙

NEW MEMBERS: Membership info & registration form is through the link in our bio 🔗📲🤿
https://forms.gle/dMRaPb6HRH9xwA9b9

RETURNING MEMBERS: Check your e-mail for member renewal form. This will be a simpler process than initial registration - so you’ll be done in just a couple of minutes 📧🧑‍💻🙌

💌 Contact us with questions/for tech support either here in our DM’s or via our e-mail:
[email protected]

Happy & safe diving every-buddy! 🤟

#2025

🫁💪 Congratulations to Kathy Macdonald on setting a new AIDA STA record for Ireland with an impressive time of 5 minutes and 57 seconds at the UNU Competition in Tampa, Florida, this December! 🏅

With a personal best of 6 minutes and 12 seconds, we wish her continued success in representing Ireland in future competitions! 🇮🇪🙌

Next AIDA Ireland Meeting is Wed, November 27 🗓️🙌

We have lots of exciting things to talk about as AIDA Ireland moves into 2025! 🥳 All Registered Members are welcome to attend - the more the merrier as we embark on this together 🤜🤛

Meeting info and link will be sent out to registered members. 📧🧑‍💻

Not yet a member?

✅🔗 Fill out the membership link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecS-1cSGQxHSwy837XlE0dqGMdRvWXVrsp6YBuGvgSn6ihng/viewform
✅🇮🇪 AND ALSO register on your AIDA International profile, indicating “AIDA Ireland” as your National.
⚠️ Note - Your membership will only be complete when you have completed both of those steps (and are eligible).

See you next week! 👏💦

Hey everyone! The next meeting for AIDA Ireland is on Wednesday, June 26 at 19:30.

We are continuing the process of setting up our board and reviewing the constitution and membership details, the next steps for continuing to build our new AIDA Ireland!

All Irish freedivers, or freedivers in Ireland are welcome to attend.

It will be a short meeting for around an hour to discuss next steps in moving forward with this new freediving association.

Please make an effort to attend if you have an interest in helping to promote freediving in Ireland!

If you are interested in joining please send us a message with your email address to be added to the meeting invite.

AIDA Ireland now confirmed as official National Observer Member of AIDA International.

Another step in the process of helping to promote the growth of the sport in Ireland and for Irish freedivers around the world!

There will be a meeting soon to discuss how we will be moving forward, for any freedivers in Ireland and for any interested Irish freedivers abroad.

Register your interest at the below link and you will be sent an online meeting invite via email when the date is set.

https://forms.gle/aKgrKCQJBaFh1rkU9

The Irish ladies are absolutely on fire these days, records are being broken more than ever and this past weekend Nina McGowan was the Irish lady on the podium collecting the honours!

Competing at the Poseidon Games Depth Challenge, Nina set 3 new AIDA National Records over the course of the 3 competition days and not only that but she also secured herself the overall winning position on the podium with her 3 flawless dives!

Nina has based herself at Freedive Superhome in Panglao, Philipeans for the last few months, fully dedicating her time and energy to her freediving training. This location is a hotspot for serious freedivers and attracts athletes from all over the globe. So it should come as no surprise that all of this hard work has paid off.

Nina improved on Niamh Guilfoyles AIDA National Record of 35m from May of this year, first to 44m and then subsequently 46 meters in the no-fins (CNF) category. This also improves on Nina’s own CMAS record from October 2022, meaning that she now holds the Irish CNF record under both AIDA & CMAS.

On day 2 of the Poseidon Depth Games, Nina took a rest from the physically demanding CNF discipline to test herself in the free-immersion (FIM) category, where the athlete uses the rope to pull themselves down and then back up again. Here she completed a spectacular dive to 58m, beating Kathy Macdonalds previous record of 55m set in Greece in September 2022.

When speaking about how she felt the competition went, Nina said; “Super happy to set 3 new National Records. Delighted to get here as the old EQ (equalisation) was the stumbling block for a long time. I had a wee dance for myself when the ladies gave me my card for the photo! Very happy!”

We’re all looking forward to see what’s to come from Nina in the future, what an exciting time for Irish Freediving.