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Intermediate Freediver
Is this course for you?
If you have experience in Scuba, Freediving and/or Spearfishing then this is the 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.
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Intermediate Course covers the following
• 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
Format / Duration
• Intermediate Freediver is held over 4-days, 8-hrs / day• 5 classroom sessions, 5hrs of 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
Materials Included with Tuition
• Personalized instruction from world record holders & trainer• 1 instructor/assistant : 4-8 student divers ratio (in water)
• '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)
