Courses and Training

The PFI Intermediate Freediver course teaches competent and comfortable freedivers essential safety and problem management for breath-hold diving. It places special emphasis on proper technique development. This program also includes details on training and equipment for diving to depths up to 40 m/132 ft.

Take This Course If

• • You have basic experience in scuba, freediving, and/or spearfishing
• • You’re interested in freediving in the 25-40 m/80-132 ft range
• • You’d like to learn to hold your breath for over three minutes
• • You’re not sure of extended freediving physiology or the physics that affect you during your freedives and want to know the details
• • You want to learn how to safely deep dive

The Course Covers

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

Other Details

• • Minimum age: 12 years of age with parent/guardian permission
• • Prerequisites: Freediver course or equivalent experience with freediving, spearfishing, or scuba diving (general comfort in the water).
• • Depth: Basic freediving experience and can achieve depths anywhere from 6-30 m/20-99 ft with relative comfort.