• • Intermediate safety and buddy procedures
  • Proper ventilation for gas saturation and volume
  • Equipment for freediving
  • Psychological aspects of freediving
  • Detailed physics and physiology of freediving
  • Confined-water static apnea development
  • Open water constant ballast development
  • Techniques for intermediate free-diving

• • You have basic experience in scuba, freediving, and/or spearfishing
  • You’re interested in freediving in the 25-40m/80-132 feet range
  • You’d like to learn to hold your breath between 3-5 minutes
  • You’re not sure of extended free-diving physiology or the physics that affect you during your free-dives and want to know the details

This course is taught by highly trained PFI Instructors at locations all over the world. The PFI Intermediate Freediver course includes, at a minimum:

• • Classroom Sessions
  • Confined Water sessions
  • Open Water sessions
  • The schedule and layout/order of these sessions vary slightly by location. The program is typically run over 4 days. Click the link on any particular course to find the exact schedule for that program.

Some of the skills a student will be able to perform at the end of the PFI Intermediate Freediver course are:

• • Adequate safe buddy skills, showing how to perform a rescue to PFI standards
  • Prepare gear without the instructor’s help
  • Perform a 3:00 static in the pool with opportunity to increase to maximum capacity
  • Dive with proper technique to 25 meters constant weight and free immersion using the PFI method of entrance and exit with proper recovery breathing

• • Freediver course or equivalent experience with freediving, spearfishing, or scuba diving (general comfort in the water)
  • You have basic freediving experience and can achieve depths anywhere from 6–30m/20–99 feet with relative comfort
  • You have a breath-hold time of around one minute or longer
  • Good health and fitness—check the PFI Medical Form
  • 12 years of age with guardian permission
  • Constant Ballast of 6 meters/20 feet

Classroom:

• • Attend all classroom teaching sessions
  • Stretching and equalizing workshops
  • CO2 and O2 training workshops
  • Complete all quizzes in manual
  • Complete pre learning quiz before class
  • Pass final with 80 percent or more

Watermanship and Stamina

• • Swim test
  • Survival float
  • Snorkel skills

Confined Water:

• • Minimum of four consecutive static breath-holds without any hypoxic symptoms minimum 3:00
  • Recovery breathing and coaching
  • Optional: Minimum of three dynamic performances
  • Optional: Complete a minimum 50m dynamic apnea
  • Negative pressure dives

Open Water:

• • Recovery breathing and coaching for buddy
  • Eight constant ballast dives reaching minimum 25m/82ft using proper entrance and exit
  • Emergency rescue and problem management, surface and underwater
  • Including LMC, blackout at surface and underwater
  • Full mask flood and ascent from 10m/33 feet
  • Eight free immersion dives to 25m/82 feet
  • Weight belt removal and ascent from 10m/33 feet

• • • Mask, snorkel, fins
    • Appropriate exposure protection
    • Weight system
    • Timing device or free-dive computer

• How long is the course? 

• • 4 days

• What's the structure of the days?

• • Day 1 - 8 am-12 pm   Classroom Theory 
  • Day 1 - 1 pm-4 pm   Pool Session 
  • Day 2 - 8 am-12 pm   Ocean session
  • Day 2 - 1 pm-4 pm   Pool & Classroom session 
  • Day 3 - 8 am-12 pm   Ocean session 
  • Day 3 - 1 pm-4 pm   Classroom session 
  • Day 4 - 8 am-12 pm   Ocean session

• What's the cost of the course?
  

• • $5,600.00 which includes:
  • • • Personalized instruction from highly trained freediving specialists.
      • A student-to-instructor ratio of no more than six:one
      • Classroom sessions with detailed knowledge development taught by freediving experts
      • Confined water sessions
      • Open water sessions
      • Hands-on experience with specialty free-diving equipment
      • Certification card
      • Boat costs
      • e learning codes

• 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.

• 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.  
    

• What does this course teach?

• • • Essential safety procedures for breath-holding at the Intermediate Free-diver level
    • Proper breathing techniques for freediving 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 at depth

  Up to a depth of 132 feet/ 40 meters

• Is this course for you?

• • • You have basic experience in scuba, freediving, and/or spearfishing
    • You’re interested in freediving in the 25-40m/80-132 feet range
    • You’d like to learn to hold your breath between 3-5 minutes
    • You’re not sure of extended free-diving physiology or the physics that affect you during your free-dives and want to know the details

  
  

  NOTE CAREFULLY: THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN TOBAGO, BASED AROUND THE CROWN POINT/MT IRVINE AREA.