Your PFI Intermediate Freediver Instructor course will cover topics such as:
- History and philosophy of PFI.
- Physics and physiology of freediving.
- Educational theory.
- Presentation structure.
Is this course for you?
- Do you want to advance your professional freediving career?
- Do you want to work towards becoming an advanced freediver instructor?
- Do you want to be more involved in helping conduct freediver courses?
Format/Duration
This course is taught by highly trained PFI Instructor Trainers at locations all over the world. The PFI Assistant Freediver Instructor course includes, at a minimum:
- Classroom sessions
- Confined Water Sessions
- Open Water Sessions
Skills
Some of the skills a student will be able to perform at the end of the PFI Safety Freediver course are:
- Site Briefings
- Site Set-up & Breakdown
- Open Water Constant Weight Dive Evaluation
- Problem Management & Rescue Scenarios
- Command and Control of Students
Prerequisites
- Minimum age of 21 years
- Be certified as a PFI Advanced Freediver.
- Be certified as a PFI Freediver Instructor in active status
- Have certified 20 PFI students with a minimum 10 at the Freediver level*
- Be a certified PFI Intermediate Freediver Assistant Instructor unless in a multi-tier program
- Have assisted as an Intermediate Freediver Assistant Instructor having co-certified 10 Intermediate Freediver students*
- Be in good medical & physical condition and have signed medical
clearance for freediving from a physician. - Have minimum Freedive ability of 40m constant weight, 3:00 static and 75m dynamic with demonstration quality technique and show capacity Freedive potential in all three disciplines
- Be an active status CPR, first aid and AED instructor with a program
that includes marine life injuries and neurological assessments. - Be an oxygen administration instructor.
Course Components
Classroom
- Introduction
- PFI Standards and Procedures.
- Pre-Course Assessments.
- Academic Overview
- Supervising and Control of Freedivers
- Fundamentals of Educational Systems and Instruction
- Course Scheduling and Marketing
- Academic Teaching Presentations
Watermanship and Stamina
- 800 meter snorkel in under 16 minutes
- 400 meter non-stop swim in under 10 minutes. Goggles permitted
- Tread water for 15 minutes without floatation assistance.
- Horizontal underwater swim (dynamic) with equipment for 75 Meters
- Complete a static of no less than 3 minutes without warm-up and 4-minute breathe-up
- 100m egress with non-stop BLS
Confined Water
- Conduct pool orientation briefing & provide safety supervision
- Assist all pool presentations
- Confined water teaching presentation
- Confined water skill evaluation
- Problem management evaluation
Open Water
- Complete Open Water orientation briefings & provide safety supervision
- Complete rig/diving system assembly disassembly
- Assist all Open Water presentations
- Open Water teaching evaluation
- Skill evaluation
- Complete two Open Water rescue scenarios
- Problem management evaluation
- Open Water freedive capacity evaluation
Equipment Used
- Mask
- Fins
- Snorkel
- Exposure protection
- Weight belt and weights (appropriate for local environment)
- A timing device and freedive computer
- Any recommended equipment relevant to the level of
instruction.
How to take this course!
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