All life on Earth is supported by the ocean. Without it, nothing can exist. It’s vital to protect and conserve it now, for our future and for the survival of the animals who call the ocean home. Our purpose is to showcase the beauty and peace of the ocean by providing retreats and courses, enriching our students and guests with knowledge and opportunity.

Freediving is an amazing way to learn more about your limits, change your mindset, challenge yourself and improve fitness, all while finding inner peace, relaxation and quiet. Our instructors are trained and qualified to deliver informative and guided freediving courses from a beginner to master level.
Freediving is our gateway to connecting with life in the ocean, a bonus of joining our freediving course, is using your new skillset to connect with, and discover the ocean on your own breath.

At Diving in Paradise, we believe that animals thrive in the wild where they are free to display their natural behaviours. We do not agree with keeping animals in captivity and strive to show our guests and students that you can experience these animals in the wild, where they belong. Our mission is to contribute to the demise of captive animal facilities and connect people back with animals in their origin.

Taylor McKeown is the head PADI freediving instructor at Diving in Paradise.
Taylor's love for the aquatic world started when she was an aspiring young swimmer who had Olympic dreams, but also loved watching and learning about whales, dolphins and other marine life.

Taylor's love for swimming quickly grew into a career, with selection on multiple junior Australian teams when she was a teenager.
In 2014, her swimming career took off, when Taylor won her first ever gold medal at the Commonwealth Games as a 19 year old. This win was the start of 8 years of representation for the Australian Dolphins Swimming Team.
During this time, Taylor went on to compete at 3 Commonwealth Games, 2 world championships and an Olympic Games. Her career highlights include a silver medal at the Olympics, 2 bronze medals at the world championships, a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and 7 Australian titles.

In 2017, Taylor completed her first PADI beginner freediving course and fell more in love with freediving than swimming. Taylor then knew her future post swimming was going to be in freediving.

In 2021, retirement lingered, so Taylor established Diving in Paradise, as a fully qualified PADI freediving instructor and animal ecologist, ready to share her love and passion for freediving and the ocean with others.

In 2022, at her last Commonwealth Games, Taylor retired and Diving in Paradise became her new, most passionate and biggest career focus.

Taylor is excited to share her wealth of knowledge in freediving and educate guests and divers about the ocean.

Diving in Paradise is proud to be partnered with PADI, a globally dominating scuba training company who have now expanded into the freediving world and have the best resources available for students via their eLearning. PADI have great progression for students with professional guidance at every step through the freediver courses. PADI are advocates for ocean conservation and through their AWARE Foundation, they are paving the way for fighting climate change, marine habitat loss and vulnerable species protection.