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About Us

Our Mission

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Our mission is to bring awareness of the sport of freediving. Helping people discover their inner power, focus, and potential they have through freediving. We want to create a global family of freedivers. While emphasizing on creating a national freediving team in Costa Rica. How do we plan on doing this?

  • Give freediving courses, training, talks, and events.
  • Offer spearfishing safety courses and spearfishing charters.
  • Provide marine conservation courses, talks, and information.
  • Focus on bringing value to each students individual needs so they can progress at their own pace and needs.
  • Create local associations to promote freediving.
  • Through various associations create a national federation.
  • Emphasize safe freediving practices and how to conduct safe training environments.

Team Rica Freedivers

Brad Stephens 🇺🇸

Founder | Freediving & Spearfishing Instructor Trainer | Captain

Originally from Chicago, USA Brad decided to move Costa Rica at the age of 20 to peruse a career in diving and enjoy the beach life. He started by teaching scuba diving.  However he felt something was missing.

Once he tried spearfishing and freediving he quickly gave up the tanks. Making these newly found passions a new way of life. Starting Rica Freedivers in 2018.

Brad enjoys the self discovery, discipline, and mental focus you learn as a freediver and empowering his students to find the same.

Brad Stephens, Rica Freedivers Owner,
Ron Segura, Costa Rican freediver

Ron Segura 🇨🇷

Freediving Instructor | Marketing Director

Since I was young, sports have been an essential part of my life, especially gymnastics and swimming. However, freediving became my true passion. This sport has allowed me to connect deeply with the ocean and explore my own limits. Now, my goal is for more people to discover freediving and experience the unique benefits it offers for both body and mind.

Kian Jory 🇿🇦

Assistant Freediving Instructor | Spearfishing Guide

Originally born in South Africa, my family and I moved to Costa Rica in pursuit of a better life. Since settling in Quepos, I fell in love with the ocean and various water sports, including surfing, cliff jumping, freediving, and spearfishing. Now, I am super comfortable and experienced in the water and can dive to great depths and catch my family and myself dinner. Life near the water continues to excite me every day! .

Kian
Fernando

Fernando Sanchez 🇨🇷

Captain

Diving guide and instructor since 2010. Boat captain since 2017

Rica Freedivers
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