Your PFI Advanced Freediver course will cover topics such as:
- Safety and Buddy Procedures for Advanced Freediving
- Equipment for Advanced Freediving & Competitions
- Psychological Aspects of Advanced Freediving & Competitive Freediving
- Land & Confined-Water Training and Evaluation Programs
- Freediving Competition Standards & Procedures
- Advanced Static Apnea
- Advanced Dynamic Apnea (depending on location)
- Open Water Constant Ballast Development & Training (60m maximum depth)
Is this course for you?
- You’re an experienced comfortable freediver and have completed the PFI Intermediate Freediver course
- You’ve completed an Intermediate Freediver level course with another recognized agency PLUS have completed the PFI Freediver Crossover Exam
- You’re interested in a program with a high level of focus on technique development and open water constant ballast training
- You want to learn advanced level training programs and have a desire to train in a safe and highly supervised environment
Format/Duration
This course is taught by highly trained PFI Instructors at locations all over the world. The PFI Advanced Freediver course includes, at a minimum:
- Classroom: 22 hours
- Confined water: 10 hours
- Open water: 15 hours
Skills
Some of the skills a student will be able to perform at the end of the PFI Advanced Freediver course are:
- Working in a safety team
- Adequate safe buddy skills, performing a rescue to PFI standards
- Prepare gear without help of instructor
- Perform a minimum 4-minute static in the pool with opportunity to increase to maximum capacity
- Dive with proper technique to a minimum of 40m/132 ft constant weight and free immersion using PFI methods of entrance and exit with proper recovery breathing and without hypoxic symptoms
Prerequisites
- PFI Intermediate Freediver certification or equivalent with PFI Intermediate Freediver Crossover Exam
- Comfort with intermediate level freediving depths, anywhere from 25–40m/82–132 ft
- Static breath-hold time of three minutes or longer
Course Components
Classroom
- Attend all classroom teaching sessions
- Stretching and Equalizing workshops
- CO2 and O2 training workshops
- All equipment workshops
- Complete all quizzes in manual
- Complete pre learning quiz before class
Watermanship and Stamina
- Prepare freediving equipment without instructor assistance
- Proper entry procedure (select best local option)
- 200-meter continuous swim without fins, snorkel, wetsuit, or flotation
Confined Water
- Minimum of four consecutive static breath-holds without any hypoxic symptoms minimum 4:00
- Recovery breathing and coaching
- Manage LMC, blackout on surface and underwater
- Finding blackout diver on surface
- Negative pressure dives
Open Water
- Recovery breathing and coaching for buddy
- 12 target free immersion dives reaching minimum 40m/132ft using proper entrance and exit procedures
- Emergency rescue and problem management (rescue scenarios), surface and underwater as a Safety Team
- Including LMC, blackout at surface and underwater
- Full mask flood and ascent at depth of 20 m/66 ft
- Weight removal and ascent from 20 m/ 66 ft
Equipment Used:
- Low Volume Mask—fluid goggles and/or nose clip optional
- Snorkel
- Full Hooded Wetsuit (3mm for warm water locations; 5-7mm for cold water locations)
- Rubber weight belt and weights in .5-1Kg/1-2lb increments
- Freediving bi-fins or monofin—if using a monofin for target dives, also bring bi-fins for Safety Freediver training
- Freediving computer plus an additional waterproof timing device
- Lanyard
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