Assistant Intermediate Freediver Instructor

Advance your Intermediate Freediving professional career!

This next level of Assistant Instructor certification allows the continuing Freediver Instructor to gain more skills and experience with more continuing education freediving courses that focus on the Intermediate Freediver level of education. Assistant 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 Instructor course.

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Your PFI Assistant 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 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 Intermediate 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
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

*A waiver for this requirement may be endorsed by the PFI Training
department for this prerequisite based on experience.

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