Formation AP Diluant Air

An eight-dive rebreather course on the AP Diving unit, run out of Port de la Pointe Rouge into the dive sites of the Parc National des Calanques. The course is led by Fabien, who became an AP Diving instructor in 2025 and combines a background in neurosciences with four years of rebreather diving experience.

The Calanques provide a varied training environment: sea fan walls, submerged grottos, arches and wrecks — enough variety across eight dives to cover different conditions and profiles without leaving the local area. CIP runs rebreather outings every day, with the option to stay underwater up to 120 minutes per dive, which makes the training schedule flexible around the student.

AP Diving has been producing commercially available closed-circuit rebreathers since 1997 and holds CE certification since 2003. The brand's documentation of tens of thousands of dives is part of why CIP chose it: spare parts are available worldwide, the behavior is predictable, and the redundancy built into the system is readable rather than hidden. The course covers the unit from first principles through to independent operation.

From this certification, the program at CIP extends into trimix normoxique dives (65€ to 85€ per dive depending on configuration) for divers who want to push further into technical diving. The center also offers Two Tanks and Afterwork formats for certified rebreather divers who want to explore the Calanques on their own schedule.