ArmDiving Instructors
OUR INSTRUCTORS
Only certified instructors are working for ArmDiving. We offer PADI Scuba Diving, SSI Freediving, and Emergency First Response courses in Armenia which are passed by qualified and experienced specialists.
Grigor Avetisyan
PADI Scuba Diving Instructor- Instructor #: 444331
- Birth year: 1986
- Phone: +374 93 60-83-28
- Email:grigor-avetisyan-86@mail.ru
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Grigor Avetisyan is a fan of active, extreme sports.
Since 2006 he has been involved in alpinism and parachute sports, and since 2016, he has added another extreme sport – diving. He made his first diving in 2016 in Sevan lake and has received 18 scuba diving certificates, and the First Wave of Freediving certificate. In 2019 Grigor received Dive Master qualification in Dahab. In 2021 he received PADI Instructor qualification in Dahab.
Olga Davydova
SSI Freediving instructor- Phone: +374 77 47-75-97
- Email:olgitta.free@gmail.com
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Olga started practicing hatha yoga and freediving in 2010. Very quickly, freediving turned from an exciting hobby into a way of life.
In 2013, she completed an instructor course with Natalia Molchanova, and since then has been actively working as a freediving instructor, teaching people to love water and find themselves in it. Over the years, Olga has trained several hundred people, from complete beginners and people who cannot swim and have a fear of water and holding their breath, to competitive freedivers.
Since 2019, Olga has become the champion of Russia in depth disciplines, participated in many competitions, including World Cups and Championships, became a national record holder in deep diving without fins and free immersion, and in 2020 set three world records in deep diving in the icy water of the mountain lake Cherik-kel in Kabardino-Balkaria.
Olga founded the FreeBalance freediving and yoga school. Today, she is an SSI instructor-trainer, also training future freediving instructors.
On August 22, 2023, Olga set a CMAS World Senior world record on Lake Sevan in the discipline: CONSTANT WEIGHT WITH NO FINS IN FRESH WATER.
On November 16, 2023, Olga became an AIDA judge. In October 2024, she became a CMAS judge.
Ariel Malhasyan
Emergence First Response Instructor- Instructor #: 443989
- Birth year: 1979
- Phone: +374 93 77-68-00
- Email:amalhasyan@yandex.ru
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Having graduated from the Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heraci in 2001, Ariel has been working at the ambulance as a paramedic.
Currently a member of the Armenian Alpinism and Tourism Federation as a qualified Tourism Instructor. In July 2021 he received the title of rescuer by MES of RA. Ariel dived the first time in Lake Sevan in 2014. Today he is a master scuba diver. In 2019 he received his Emergency First Response certificate and became an instructor in ArmDiving.
