WHY CHOOSE US?
A Little Bit About Us …
We are Sydney’s largest, best and friendliest freediving company!
Immersia was founded in 2020 in a tiny North Bondi apartment. Our founder, Bella Massey, had just stepped away from a management consulting career and was determined to share her love of the ocean with the world.
Our mission is to transform our guests into the “ocean people” they dream of. We are a freediving school, yes. But we’re so more than that.
We facilitate extraordinary underwater experiences, from beginner freediving classes, to ocean expeditions in the most magical places on Earth. Above all, we’re here to make sure our guests and community have access to coaching, information, safety skills, friendships and lifechanging experiences in the ocean.
What Makes Us Different?
We create experiences around bucket-list marine wildlife encounters; the kind of moments you’ll be proud of for the rest of your life.
OUR VALUES
Ethical animal interactions
Fair pay for staff and local suppliers.
Professional Safety Procedures, and a safe staff/guest ratio.
We give back. All expeditions involve an optional conservation activity, from coral planting to cleanups.
Everything we do is legal, insured and permitted
Transparency around inclusions, accommodation, facilities
OUR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Dedicated 24h support on expedition
Convenient, low risk and secure booking process
Regular communication about your trip
Professional, experienced facilitators who know how to deliver unforgettable moments. Your host won’t be just a content creator who cares more about his own photos than your experience or safety
Perhaps these things seem obvious.
However, we can confidently say that right now we are running the safest and most legitimate freediving retreat operation in the world.
How do we know? Constant research and feedback. We’re serious about being the best freediving operation on earth!
OUR PHILOSOPHY
It’s your own journey
Your strengths, struggles and reasons for being here are your own. No assholes here.
Happier > Deeper
We want to help you find your happy underwater, whatever that means. It’s not all about depth or time.
Safety Before Style
Safety is not sexy, but it’s important. Everything we do, we do safely.
Don’t Sh*t where you eat
We’re experiencing nature in a way most people never will. We try to leave it better than we found it.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
BELLA MASSEY
For me, ocean adventure travel embodies the joy I’ve found in this world: feeling alive, connected, and high on awe.
In 2017 moved from London to Sydney’s Bondi Beach. I was living a corporate, urban existence as a management consultant. Moving to the beach opened up the perfect opportunity to take up a new water sport. I chose freediving (tbh it was advanced snorkelling).
I was TERRIFIED of deep water, currents and sharks. Freediving didn’t come naturally. However, as I grew more confident I found a deep sense of physical freedom. Freediving felt like dancing without gravity. Silently observing the underwater world as a visitor felt so calming. I made some of my closest friends (and my husband) in Sydney’s freediving community. Freediving opened up travel opportunities. Before long I was exploring the underwater magic of Bali, Philippines, Hawaii and Tonga. Meeting whales and sharks peacefully underwater gave me a sense of being truly alive.
I constantly felt a sense of disappoinment that I’d gone so many years without knowing this side of life. I could help regular people discover the ocean and transform their physical, mental and social health. So, in 2020, I took the biggest leap of faith of my life and walked away from my career to start Immersia Freediving.
4 years on, we have grown faster than I ever imagined. We’ve been lucky enough to teach over 1000 people to freedive and we have now hosted snorkelling, swimming and freediving expeditions in some of the world’s most beautiful places.
