Fort Lauderdale, FL USA

Location Info

Classroom and Pool Sessions

• Saturday, Sunday and Monday's class sessions will be held at Performance Freediving/Pro Dive facitlity at: 429 Seabreeze Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 Phone: 954-302-2791.

Open Water Sessions

• We will be using a boat for all of the ocean sessions. The cost of the boat is about $60/day.  

Equipment Requirements

• Mask, fins and snorkel - Preferably low volume mask and long blade fins or mono fin.
• Wetsuit with gloves and boots - 3mm freediving suit is required for pool and ocean sessions.  Good freediving suit with attached hood is perfect. If your hood is not attached please bring a seperate one.
• Weights and weight belt - Having a rubber weight belt with an assortment of smaller weights to adjust for proper buoyancy.
• Depth and/or timing device - A waterproof watch at the very least, better yet a freediving computer is perfect.

Check out general gear recommendations.

Don't worry about lines, floats and those sorts of things, we'll bring that.  We also travel with an assortment of freediving computers for you to try out as well.  Along with all of this we'll video your clinic so you can review each day, your skills in the water as they improve. 

Accomidation nearby

There are many hotels in the area. You can do a search for the classroom address on sites like www.hotels.com or www.expedia.com and see many choices.
 
The hotel across the street is The Marriott hotel. Their website is: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/fllco-courtyard-fort-lauderdale-beach/
They will give you a special rate if you say your are a student at Pro Dive.

A nice hotel that is only about 10min away that is clean and has full kitchen units is Extended Stay Hotels.

Clinic Schedule

The following schedule is subject to change. If you are doing the Basic clinic then you will take part in the first two days. The course starts at 8am sharp. Full course payment is due at this time.

Day 1- Saturday

• Introduction & Registration
• Emergency Procedures
• Equipment
• Breathing / Proper Ventilations
• Physics of Freediving

• Rescue Skills
• Technique Development
• Static and Dynamic Evaluation

Day 2 - Sunday

• Pool Training Exercises - stretching/yoga
• Static and Dynamic Performance

11:0am - 1:00pm: Classroom

• Psychological Aspects of Freediving
• Land Based Training Exercises

• Warm-upsFree Immersion
• Rescue Evaluations
• Technique Development

Day 3 - Monday

8:00am - 1:00pm: Classroom

• Physiology of Freediving
• Psychological Aspects of Freediving  

• Warm-upsFree Immersion
• Rescue Evaluations
• Technique Development

Day 4 - Tuesday

9:00am - 12:00pm: Open Water

• Warm-ups
• Free Immersion
• Rescue Evaluations
• Technique Development

• Lunch

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