CURRENT MISSION

I travel around the globe connecting people to the ocean

Are you an ocean lover? 🐳

On our planet 🌎 five billion people can not swim.

FCOA likes to change that, we do so by training coaches to run freediving events.

Freediving is our tool 🔧 to make people fall in love 💘 with the ocean.

Freediving Coaches Of Asia (FCOA) is a non profit certification agency for freediving, scuba, sailing and climbing. We collaborate with divers and sailors that like to participate in our mission.

We teach less privileged societies to swim, dive and sail and turn them into advocates for our environment.

Collaborators participate in teaching and in exchange they get to do their continued courses.

We operate mostly in the Philippines, India, Uganda and Zambia.
Our head quarters is in Calapan Mindoro.

Scuba licences can be converted to CMAS

http://FCOA.online

The program has an abundance of hands on teaching opportunities like no other course, its very practical, forward and no nonsense. Afterwards your ability to teach will be real and drilled in trough the daily repetition.

Many of our participants of the past now make a living teaching diving, we continue helping each other, we do workshops on event planning and marketing and experienced coaches keep coming back to help out.

The fact that this program gets conducted in the center of marine biodiversity at a place with caves and shipwrecks is a nice bonus.

Check out our website

Http://FCOA.online

Greetings from the Philippines

Jeroen Elout

Founder of Freediving Coaches of Asia

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW WE PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Most of the time I live and host in Calapan Mindoro Philippines

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is a special website and couch surfers are special people, in general, they are full of adventure, easy going, flexible, tolerant to peoples believes and cultures.

Occasionally it get's busy with couchsurfers here in Mindoro. some come for the mountains others for freediving, the biggest group we had here was 30 people with 7 nationalities 12 of them couch surfers.

Other experiences,

Meet ups for rock climbing
Meet ups for spanish classes, all trough CS

It might be most efficient to contact me via Facebook : Jeroen Elout

Interests

Diving, Sailing, trying new things

• writing
• cooking
• instructor
• flying
• aviation
• movies
• guitar
• camping
• scuba diving
• snorkeling
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

I make my own,

www.jeroenelout.0fees.net

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Setting up DivingDutchman, my litte one man divingschool on Malta in the medeteranian.

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy showing people the underwater world

What I Can Share with Hosts

When ever I'm hosted I like to cook to return the favor.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Belize, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Finland, Guatemala, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Thailand, United States

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