• Essential safety procedures for breath-holding at the Basic Free-diving Level
• Proper breathing techniques for free-diving and snorkeling
• Confined water skill development
• Open Water skill development
• Equalization for depth diving
• Equipment for free-diving and snorkeling
• The fundamental physics and physiology of free-diving

• You’re interested in learning the fundamental techniques of Free-diving and Spearfishing
• You’re new to free-diving and spearfishing

This course is taught by highly trained PFI Instructors. The PFI Basic Free-diver course includes, at a minimum:

• Classroom Session
• Confined Water session
• Open Water session

Some of the skills a student will be able to perform at the end of the PFI Basic Free-diver course are:

• • Safety skills as a buddy
  • Perform a 1:00 minute static breath-hold with opportunity to increase to 2:30 minute
  • Dive with proper technique to a max of 10 meters/ 33 feet constant weight and free immersion with proper recovery breathing

• Swimming or snorkeling experience
• Good health and fitness
• 10 years of age with guardian permission

Classroom:

• • Attend all classroom teaching sessions
  • Stretching and equalizing workshops
  • Snorkel skills

Confined Water:

• • Minimum of four consecutive static breath-holds without any hypoxic symptoms minimum 1:00 minute
  • Recovery breathing and coaching
  • Full Mask flood and ascent from depth

Open Water:

• • Recovery breathing and coaching
  • Six target constant weight dives reaching maximum 10m/33 feet
  • Four free immersion dives to a maximum 10m/33 feet
  • Emergency rescue and problem management (rescue scenarios)

• • Mask, snorkel, fins
  • Appropriate exposure protection
  • Weight system (if needed)

1. How long is the course? 

• • 1 day

1. What's the structure of the days?

• • Saturday morning classroom theory 8:00 am - 10:00 pm
  • Saturday morning confined water session 10:30 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Saturday afternoon ocean 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

1. What's the cost of the course?
   

• • $1,400.00 which includes:
  • • Personalized instruction from highly trained free-diving specialists.
    • A student-to-instructor ratio of no more than six:one
    • Classroom sessions with detailed knowledge development taught by free-diving experts
    • Confined water sessions
    • Open water sessions
    • Hands-on experience with specialty free-diving equipment
    • Certification card
    • Boat costs

• Do I need to be able to dive deep to do the course? 
• • No, the course is made to teach you to dive so you don’t need to be at any advanced levels of diving ability. What we require is you need to be able to swim, thread water comfortably and have overall water comfort. It is also highly preferred that you have experience using basic snorkeling gear such as a mask and snorkel.
  • General good health and fitness.

1. What equipment do I need?

• • Mask, snorkel, fins, wetsuit or at least some kind of exposure protection. Weightbelt if you have a wetsuit. Timing device (such as waterproof watch or stopwatch) or a free-dive computer.

1. What does this course teach?

• • Essential safety procedures for breath-holding at the Basic Free-diver level
  • Proper breathing techniques for free-diving and snorkeling
  • Confined water skill development i.e., static apnea
  • Open water skill development i.e., techniques for depth diving
  • Equalization for depth diving
  • Equipment for free-diving and snorkeling
  • The fundamental physics and physiology of free-diving; understand what happens to your body up to a depth of 33 feet.

1. Is this course for you?

• • You’re interested in learning the fundamental techniques of freediving and spearfishing
  • You’re new to freediving and wish to get your best start in the sport the right way. Or you have been diving a while and are ready to take your diving to the next level safely.
  • You typically dive in the shallows
  • You want to dive safely
  • You want to hold your breath longer
  • You want to dive deeper