Private Freedive-Harvesting Package + Shore Dive guided Hunt/Harvest
Academics - MAR 31* & APR 1*/5*/6*
Practical - April 16/17/18

***PRIVATE BOOKING***
Location: Victoria, B.C.
COST: $1140
Schedule:
Dates* are Academic Zoom Sessions 6pm-9pm
MAR 31* & APR 1*/5*/6* Academics
Other Dates are full day Practical Sessions:
April 16:
830am-1030am Band powered device handling (TBD, near esq rec)
12pm-6pm at 527 Fraser St. (Esquimalt Recreation Centre)
April 17: 8am-4pm Willis Pt. Dive site - Across from 7441 Mark LAne.
UW target shooting end of day
APRIL 18: Harvesting Day/Spearfishing - Sooke or West of, Conditions Pending (Full Day)

This 4 day package on offer from Bottom Dwellers is a two course package.

Learn proper and safe Freediving Techniques from a PFI Professional in the 'PFI Freediver' course and Ted Harty’s Road Map to Frenzel Equalization program.  Take those skillsets learnt and adapt them to Marine Harvesting Applications in Bottom Dweller's 'Freedive-Harvesting Course' where you'll learn about local marine life, rules and regulations, risk management and valuable techniques and skillsets (including band-powered device handling) for freedive-harvesting and spearfishing.

These two courses together create Bottom Dwellers' 'Freedive-Harvester Package' to get you freediving, spearfishing and harvesting in the marine environemnt safely and competently.

PFI FREEdiver

If you're looking to take your freediving to the next level; wanting to learn to freedive safely and become a good 'Safe Buddy' diver; wanting to dive deeper and have longer breath holds; or simply wanting to learn about the basics and foundations of good, safe freediving practices. The PFI Freediver level course is for you.

In this course you will be taught the fundamental building blocks of Freediving in small instructor to student ratio setting to allow Bottom Dwellers' students to get the most out of each course as possible. You will learn freediving skills and techniques and experience first hand how these will benefit you in an aquatic environment. You will learn about the physiological effects that the physics of freediving has on a freediver. The Freediver course will take you to a maximum depth of 20m/66' in open water sessions. In confined water sessions the Freediver course will also have you explore and practice Static Apnea with the goal of increasing your breath-hold capabilities and learning to better manage your body for freediving.

BOTTOM DWELLERS FREEDIVE-HARVESTING COURSE:

This course bridges the gap for the 'certified freediver' allowing them to grow as a safe and competent freediver, adapting to safe, efficient and conscientious Freedive-Harvesting and Spearfishing methods and practices

Freediving within their certification standards, students will be taught the fundamentals of safe Freedive-Harvesting, Equipment, Band-Powered Device handling as well as the basics of Ethical Freedive-Harvesting and Local Rules and Regulations.

***In Bottom Dwellers' Freedive-Harvesting Courses a Band Powered device, float-line and float system will be provided to each safe-buddy system by Bottom Dwellers. Students/Clients will share one band powered device, float and float-line between each pair of freedivers in their safe buddy systems as to Bottom Dwellers' Safety Standards.***

***If Freediver Certification is not achieved during the PFI Freediver Course preceding the Freedive-Harvesting Course, the student will be limited in their use of band-powered devices as to their abilities for creating a safe instructional and learning environment.***

Included:

  • *New for 2022 Season - Freediver Level Programs include Ted Harty’s - Road Map to Frenzel program to better get you setup with your equalizations prior to your course.

  • PFI Freediver E-learning Program: Start your course online before your classroom sessions! Get the most out of your course by coming in with a strong base knowledge before even stepping through the door!

  • PFI Freediver and Bottom Dwellers Freedive Harvesting Course Instruction

  • Bottom Dwellers T-shirt & Certification Card upon achieving certification.

  • Class, Pool & Ocean Instruction. Small class ratios.
    Course Ratios: (For confined water and open water sessions courses are usually ran with a 1:4 Ratio depending on the program)

    • Open-Water: 1 instructor : 6 students max

    • Confined Water: 1 Instructor: 8 students max

    • Classroom: Up to 20 Students. *Zoom Classroom Academic Sessions and your course E-learning are required to be completed to be eligible to get in the water for the practical segment of your course. By registering for this course you are agreeing to be present with your camera on during the classroom settings.

To hold a spot in the course, the form below must be filled out in full along with paying either a 50% deposit of the course fee or paying the course in full. Your spot in the course will not be held until both this form and the course deposit or full payment have been received by Bottom Dwellers. 

Payments may be made by arranging it with Bottom Dwellers directly or at our Online Store Here. Please be sure to fill out the required registration form below as well as making a full or deposit payment to reverse your seat in the class.

*IF A COURSE IS FULL and you are still interested in taking it, please feel free contact Bottom Dwellers by filling out the respective form for the course to be put on a wait list for that course. If a spot comes available, Bottom Dwellers will reach out to that wait list first to fill the course.

Performance Freediving International Courses offered by Bottom Dwellers Freediving provide the students within its courses with 'DAN's Student Medical Expense Coverage'. 

For more Information on the Freediver courses for such things as EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS and other important details please follow the course description link here:

Please complete the form below in full
all field Details are required of Registrants  

*To participate in any of Bottom Dwellers' courses you must meet the requirements of the medical form provided by Performance Freediving International. Bottom Dwellers instructs the Performance Freediving International System which upholds the highest standards of educational foundation in our attempts to provide the safest and most efficient learning environment for our students. To consult this form, please follow the link below.

Before singing up for a course with Bottom Dwellers, please consult our Refund and Cancellation Policy Here