Intermediate Freediver Certification Course

EXTEND YOUR SKILLS TO FREEDIVE UP TO 132 FEET AND HOLD YOUR BREATH BEYOND YOUR CURRENT PERSONAL BEST.

Florida Freedivers will bring you beyond the basics and teach you to dive up to 132 feet. You will also practice advanced static apnea to help develop your breath-holding abilities to hold your breath to your maximum limit..

Your Florida Freedivers course will cover fundamental topics such as:

• Intermediate safety and buddy procedures
• Proper ventilation for gas saturation and volume
• Equipment for 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

Is this course for you?

• You’re interested in learning the fundamental techniques of freediving
• You’re new to freediving
• You typically dive in the shallows
• You want to hold your breath longer
• You want to dive deeper

Format/Duration

• 3 Day course
• Classroom session or online learning
• Pool session
• Ocean sessions

Course Prerequisites

• Completion of a prior Freediver course - or - have freediving experience and can dive to depths between 20 and 99 feet with relative comfort
• Have a breath-hold of one minute or longer
• Good health and fitness
• 12 years of age with guardian permission

Required Equipment:

• Mask, snorkel, fins, preferable freediving specific but not required
• Appropriate wetsuit or other protection
• Weight belt and weights
• Stopwatch or freedive computer
• Some rental gear is available for courses