COURSES

Basic Spearfishing Course with Sheri Daye and Daryl Wong

Instructs competent and comfortable freedivers in the art of spearfishing with emphasis on safety, selectivity, and effective hunting techniques.  Instruction will cover psychological and physiological factors that contribute to successful spearfishing performance. The class will cover:

• Hunting Ethics
• Spearfishing Safety Do's and Don'ts
• Spearfishing-specific equipment
• Speargun Selection
• Shot Placement and Target Practice
• Applicable Laws and Proper Flag Display
• Boating Etiquette
• Various Types of Hunting
• Fish Identification and Behavior
• Techniques for Attracting Fish
• Teamwork
• Proper Fish Handling/Filleting/Storage
• Travel Tips

Is this course for you?

You're comfortable with basic freediving skills and achieve depths anywhere from 4 - 12m / 10 - 40 feet with relative comfort and have a breath-hold time of 1 minute or longer.  You have either none or limited spearfishing experience and would like to get started or improve on current skills. If so, then this is the course for you!

Download and review the PFI medical form . If you say YES to any questions you may need to get doctors approval to take part in the course. Email us if you have any questions about the medical form.

Gear

You will need to provide all of your own gear including: Wetsuit, mask, snorkel, fins, timing devise/freediving computer, gloves, weight belt and weights and knife. It is highly recomended that you select Freediivng/Spearfishing specific gear as it will greatly improve your performance. Of course you will also need a speargun. You can bring your own, or travel light, and you can demo different brands during the open water sessions.

Check out gear recommendations for this course.

Format / Duration

• Basic Spearfishing is held over 3-days, 8-hrs / day
• 4 classroom sessions
• 2 pool sessions
• 2 open water sessions

Prerequisites

• PFI Basic Freediver course or higher and general comfort in the water
• Good health and fitness
• minimum 14 years of age with guardian permission
• Static Apnea (breath-hold) of 1:00 minute dry
• Constant Ballast (unassisted freedive) of 6 meters / 20 feet

Cost

• $595.00 and includes the following:
• Personalized instruction from world record holders & National Champions
• 1 instructor/assistant : 4-6 student divers ratio (in-water)
• Basic Spearfishing Student Manual and Student Workbook
• Pool and Classroom sessions
• Open Water instruction
• Hands on experience with spearfishing equipment
• Clinic DVD and PFI/Spearfishing T-Shirt
• Certification card and wall certificate
• Boat and other travel related fees may be an additional charge where applicable

Locations

Key West, Florida USA

Kona, Hawaii, USA

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Schedule

This schedule is here to give you an idea of how the course will be run. There may be slight changes to it but the start and finish times should stay the same.

Day 1
8:00am - 1:00pm: Classroom

• Introduction & Registration
• Emergency Procedures
• Hunting Ethics
• Spearfishing Equipment
• Spearfishing Safety
• Applying Freediving Principles

2:00pm - 5:00pm: Pool session (3 hrs)

• Loading spearguns
• Streamlining, entry, descending, ascending
• Swimming, aspetto

Day 2
8:00am - 12:00am: Classroom

• Types of Hunting
• Aiming and Shot Placement
• Fish ID and Behavior
• Spearfishing Techniques
• Safe Buddy Practices and Teamwork

1:00pm - 5:00pm: Open Water

• Equipment prep and entry
• Target Practice
• Safe Buddy Exercises
• Equipment exit and storage

Day 3
8:00am - 10:00pm: Classroom

• Proper fish handling/filleting/storage
• Travel Tips

11:00am - 5:00pm: Open Water

• Spearfishing

See our course schedule to register.

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