The Team

Meet the Team

Nathan Williams


  • Qualifications: PADI Freediving Instructor

    Nathan has been freediving for over 15 years and trained under two of Australia’s freediving pioneers, Clinton Laurence and Marlon Quinn. Nathan sees freediving as a powerful way to bring people together, support ocean conservation, and help others experience the mental health benefits of time in the water.

    With years of coaching and teaching experience, Nathan is passionate about helping people feel safe, confident, and calm in the ocean. He looks forward to meeting you and welcoming you into the Deep South Freediving community.

Jacob Virtue


  • Qualifications: PADI Freediving Instructor

    Jacob has explored Tasmania’s coastal waters since his early teens, developing a lifelong connection to the ocean through freediving and scuba diving on fishing missions. Over the past few years, he has focused on freediving as both a discipline and a way to experience the sea with greater awareness and respect, while also proudly identifying as an underwater hockey player.

    As a freediving instructor, Jacob brings together his love of the water and his passion for helping others build confidence, safety, and calm beneath the surface. He continues to enjoy spearfishing and sharing the mental clarity and joy that freediving brings to life in the ocean.

Georgie Davidson


  • Qualifications: Molchanovs W2 Freediving Instructor

    Georgie is a Molchanovs freediving instructor with a passion for bringing people to the ocean and making it an acessable place for everyone. She has her own dive business, Liv For The Sea, running ocean expeditions around the world.

    She favours an indidualised teaching approach, tailoring sessions to the needs of each student. With 15 years working on the ocean, her background as a scuba dive master, deckhand and emergency nurse mean she’s got you covered.

Knut Heinatz

  • Knut has loved the ocean since childhood, and that bond deepened through his PhD in marine biology. Two years ago he took up freediving and found it the most honest way to be in the ocean he'd studied from the surface - just your breath, your body, and the ocean.

    Nature photography has long been a passion too, and his eye for the right moment now helps him share what he sees underwater. Not only to raise awareness for protecting these waters, especially in Tasmania, but to show why freediving itself is such a beautiful way to connect with the ocean and everything in it.

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Join the Deep South Community

Freediving is better together. When you train with Deep South, you're joining a supportive community of ocean lovers who push boundaries and celebrate progress as one.

Connect with experienced freedivers for regular group sessions, find trusted dive buddies for weekend ocean adventures, and access our network for tips, encouragement, and trip planning. We organise social events, explore Tasmania's best dive sites together, and build genuine friendships through our shared passion.

The mental resilience and trust developed through freediving create bonds that extend far beyond the water. You're not just learning a skill—you're finding your tribe.

Dive deeper. Together.

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