Every diver equalizes. On every descent, on every dive, for as long as they keep diving. And almost none of them have been taught how.

You got a few minutes on it in your Open Water course, somewhere between mask clearing and buddy checks, and that was the last time anyone mentioned it.

Buoyancy gets a specialty. Navigation gets a specialty. But the thing you do more often than either of them gets four minutes and a shrug.

In freediving it's the opposite. Equalization decides whether you dive at all, so it gets taken apart completley — drilled, coached, argued over.

That's where this course was built, and that's where I've spent years teaching it. The technique is the same either way. It just never made it across.

So we built a version for scuba divers.

Coach enough people and you notice they all get stuck in the same handful of places, in roughly the same order.

What's out there doesn't help with that. You get a perfect demonstration and nothing about what it looks like when it's going wrong. If you can't copy the demo, you're stuck with no idea why.

So I built the mistakes and the fixes into my courses itself. You can spot your own errors and correct them without someone watching over you.

Coaching is still there if you want it, but you shouldn't have to book a private session with me to have you point out a common mistake.

First things first; I'm not a scuba instructor, and I'm not going to pretend I can teach you anything about diving.

I teach one thing. Equalization. That's all I've done for years, one-to-one, in groups, and taking every equalization course I could get my hands on, because I'm a nerd like that.

I'm from the Netherlands originally, grew up around tulips, windmills, and lakes. Found freediving in 2019, left my job in 2022, and moved to Dahab, Egypt to 'do some diving'.... I just never went back to the Netherlands. ;-)