Instructs competent and comfortable freedivers in essential safety and problem management with a high emphasis on proper technique development, training and equipment. A thorough understanding of the physics and physiology of freediving is instructed along with training programs to better further the freedivers physical and mental performance.

• Intermediate Safety and Buddy Procedures
• Equipment for Performance Freediving
• Proper Ventilation for Gas Saturation and Volume
• Psychological Aspects of Freediving
• Physics and Physiology of Freediving
• Confined Water Static Apnea Development
• Open Water Constant Ballast Development
• Techniques for Intermediate Freediving

Is this course for you?

Your knowledge of safety, rescue or problem management is limited. You’re comfortable with basic freediving and achieve depths anywhere from 6 - 30m / 20 - 99 feet with relative comfort and have a breath-hold time of around 1 minute or longer. You’re not sure of extended freediving physiology or the physics that affect you during your freedives. You have experience in Scuba, Freediving and/or Spearfishing. If so then this is the course for you!

Download and review the PFI medical form . If you say YES to any questions you may need to get doctors approval to take part in the course. Email us if you have any questions about the medical form.

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Format / Duration

Intermediate Freediver is held over 4-days, 8-hrs / day
5 classroom sessions
3 pool sessions
3 open water sessions

Prerequisites

• Basic Freediver or experience with Freediving, spearfishing or scuba diving (general comfort in the water)
• Good health and fitness
• 12 years of age with guardian permission
• Static Apnea (breath-hold) of 1:00 minute dry
• Constant Ballast (unassisted freedive) of 6 meters / 20 feet

Cost

$695.00 and includes the following:

• Personalized instruction from world record holders & trainer
• 1 instructor/assistant : 4-8 student divers ratio (inwater)
• ‘Intermediate Freediver Student Manual’
• ‘Intermediate Freediver Student Workbook’
• Pool and Classroom sessions
• Open Water instruction
• Hands on experience with specialty freediving equipment
• Clinic DVD and PFI T-Shirt
• Certification card and wall certificate
• Boat and other travel related fees may be an additional charge where applicable

Locations

Lauderdale Divers at 1334 SE 17th St., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316.
For more information, please see our Class Locations page.

Registration and Payment Details

To secure your spot in a course, we need to receive both your regsitration and either a 50% deposit or full payment. Any outstanding course balance is due by the start of the course. See our course schedule.

Contact Lauderdale Diver at 1-800-654-2073 to register.

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