Learn to freedive down to a maximum depth of 60m/197ft!
The PFI Advanced Freediver course instructs competent and comfortable freedivers who have successfully achieved the PFI Intermediate Freediver certification or successfully passed the PFI Freediver Crossover Exam to the Intermediate level. The course teaches advanced safety and problem management with an emphasis on advanced and competitive freediving techniques, training, and equipment for depths as much as 60m/197 feet. Divers will also learn how to develop training programs to better their own physical and mental performance for deep freediving.
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
