Dan was born in Latvia in
1984.
He grew up in Riga to the
shore of the Baltic sea and
lived there until he was 5,
when he moved to Haifa in
Israel to the shore of the
Mediterranean sea. His
favorite in water activity
as a child has always been
to pass a distance as great
as possible underwater on a
single breath.
Dan participated in many
different sports since he
was young including:
Athletics, Hockey, Street
Skating, Cycling and Shaulin
Kung Fu.
In 2004 he moved to Eilat to
the shore of the Red sea and
rediscovered his breath
holding abilities and his
passion for freediving. He
stayed in Eilat and began
teaching freediving fulltime
in 2006.
Dan has graduated with
honours from the AIDA
International Freediving
Instructor
course,
in which he was tutored by 3 world class athletes and champions:
Lotta Ericson (Sweden), Linda Paganeli (Italy) and Jean-Pol Francois
(Belgium).
In 2007 he bacame an AIDA Master Instructor and began teaching the
AIDA 4 star (deep diving speciality) Course.
Dan has taken part in the famous Triple Depth staff. He Specializes
in safety diving and Monofin freediving techniques and has also been
certified as an AIDA International judge.
