Filip Jakubiak

When I was young I constantly asked everyone around to draw me divers and the underwater world.
If I saw a magazine with a diver on the cover, I would stop at nothing, until I got it in my hands.
I remember diving on my fathers back, long before I learned how to swim, and how my mother
transformed the story
“Little Red Riding Hood”
to the “Red Diving Hood”
and the “Sea Wolf”.
I fell in love with diving
when I was young
and ever since then,
I’ve been chasing that dream.

My parents couldn’t afford diving lessons, so right after high school I was able to earn my own money, and I started taking my first classes.
This is also the time I came across freediving for the first time.
The concept of diving on a single breath, got me very excited.
In 2005, I started my training, and I was completely hooked on this pure form of diving.

Two years later in 2007, I got employed full time as a commercial diver. This gave me the opportunity to learn a very specialised form of diving, which is saturation diving. Due to different events in my life,
I had to set aside training and work
as a commercial diver
for the next 10 years.

I felt that there was something missing and that was freediving, because the most happiest times in my life, where when I was freediving, training, competing and spending time with other freedivers.
In 2017, I decided to fully get back to freediving.

Now I teach and pass on my knowledge to my students, and most of all, I get to share my passion.

I live my childhood dream,
I'm a diver.

I'm a deep addict.

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Diver nowadays

1 month ago

Due to my commercial work I step back from teaching. It’s hard to combine and plan freediving courses while I’m constantly on standby. I am bound by a contract and in any moment I can get a call to report to the ship. When I work and when I will be off is a big […]

Back in the sa(t)ddle

1 year ago

I had a call from commercial diving company that I’m working for. They want us to do some maintenance under the oil rig at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Since I have contract for 2 more years I couldn’t refuse. Other thing is that I don’t want because this job will boost my budget […]

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Got COVID!

1 year ago

On demand I’ve got COVID! Couple of days with poor sleep made difference and ‚finally’ I have my own Corona. Yep. I’ve made a test on 15th April and have quarantine till 24th. It was not so bad – three days of fever, pain in whole body and cough with brown (probably blood) stuff comin’ […]