Is this course for you?

• Do you want to advance your professional freediving career?
• Do you want to work towards becoming a 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 18 years
• Be certified as a PFI Intermediate Freediver
• Be certified as a PFI Freediver Supervisor
• Be in good medical & physical condition and have signed medical clearance for freediving from a physician.
• 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 50-Meters
• Complete a static of no less than 2 minutes without warm-up and 4-minute breathe-up
•  100m egress with non-stop BLS

Confined Water

• Emergency Ascents & Problem Management:
  • a. Surface LMC Control
    b. Surface BO Control
    c. Unconscious BO diver at the surface with rollover
    d. Underwater BO during ascent- conscious going unconscious
    e. Locate and ascend with a blacked-out diver from the bottom
    f. Perform in-water artificial resuscitation while doing a rescue tow
• Command and Control of Students
  a. Demonstrate command and control/position of students with and
  without assistants.
  b. Demonstrate command and control/position of students as an
  assistant.
• Skill Circuit / Teaching Presentation
  Complete the following skill circuit and demonstrate ability to
  teach:
  •  Stress Test/Teamwork
  •  Mask Skills (partial mask flood and clear, full mask flood and
    clear)
  • Snorkel Clear- Blast and Displacement Methods
  • Finning Techniques
  • Surface Entries
  • Surface Recovery
  • Weight belt removal/replacement
  • Static Procedures (as safety and performer)
  • Dynamic Procedures (as safety and performer)
  • Proper Breathe-up

Open Water

• Site Briefings
• Site Set-Up & Breakdown
• Open Water Constant Weight Dive Evaluation
• Problem Management & Rescue Scenarios
• Command and Control of Students
• Skill Evaluation
• Open Water Teaching Presentations

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!

• Find your local PFI Dive Center: Click here!
• Find your local PFI Instructor: Click here!