Discover your life aquatic

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We are based in Vancouver, BC and offer courses in the Lower Mainland and many other locations. If you would like us to come to your community, please contact us.

Click here for a list of our locations.

A private lesson starts at $85 + GST. The price includes pool admission, lane rental and our instruction fee. All lessons are backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. For more rates, semi-private lessons, please visit Book A Lesson.

We used to offer Total Immersion workshops, however, now we offer weekend clinics that follow a different outline and focus. This allows us to tailor our instruction to different audiences and even offer custom or advanced clinic options. We also put a lot of emphasis on excellent follow up and so offering single weekend workshops is no longer a priority for us, as we feel is not nearly as effective as a multi-session course.

For out of town weekend instruction, we have several options we feel are a good compromise between convenience and concrete benefits to your swimming.

For more information on courses offered on the weekend, please look at our courses page or contact us directly.

    Sea Hiker offered Total Immersion coaching for the first two and a half years. Since then we've evolved from that excellent foundation to offer instruction we feel addresses many areas that the Total Immersion system does not cover. It also offers us more flexibility to offer you tailored instruction, whether in a private lesson, weekly course or weekend clinic.

If you have pervious experience with Total Immersion, you are welcome to speak with us about how we can help you make the most of TI instructional materials, or use what you've learned previously and progress further in your swimming.

    This program is an amazing program designed to help swimmers learn freestyle by having the time to really explore the options for developing an efficient stroke. It is suitable for beginners and swimmers at every level. For more information, visit our course page.

    If we use a system, its only feature would be that we look to help people with their individual needs. We've found that one size does not fit all.

Our focus rests on what skills enable people to succeed across a range of activities and sports. Body awareness and the ability to guide one's own practice into what works best for each individual person are the foundations of our approach. 

Freediving is so often sensationalized by the media and unfortunately some freedivers feel the need to perpetuate misconceptions. We both have competitive freediving experience along with more than 25 years of snorkeling, skin diving, recreational freediving and seahiking experience. Holding your breath underwater is an activity just like any other. Take precautions and look to stay in your comfort zone and you can minimize risks.

The biggest benefit freediving has brought to our perspective on coaching is seeing how to help most people who are intimidated by deep water, large expanses of water and especially going underwater. It is an amazing process to see someone transform fear or anxiety and also powerful assumptions about freediving or any underwater activity into confidence, enjoyment and pure wonder.

Whether you engage in seahiking or freediving, the beauty of being underwater is something that everyone could enjoy.

Tyler swam competitively when he was young. Peter did not, but has since competed in triathlon and open water races.

Both of us have competitive freediving experience (elite level).

For more information on our background and how we feel it enhances our approach to instruction, check out our detailed biographies.