Intermediate Freediver Instructor

This level of Instructor certification allows the continuing instructor to offer more continuing education freediving courses with focus on the Intermediate Freediver level of education with their students. Instructors in this area possess a high level of knowledge, skill, capacity, technical expertise and ability and will be required to work in the 40m/132ft depth range repeatedly while also being able to employ safety and problem management techniques. This program may be taught as a stand-alone program or combined during an Intermediate Freediver Assistant Instructor course based on the skill/experience of the Intermediate Assistant Instructor candidates

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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