In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn why Freediving should be a part of every dive business with Ted Harty.
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We hear a lot about freediving these days right? Well, it’s because freediving continues to have tremendous growth in our industry. But should you get on the bandwagon. The answer is yes. And Ive invited my good friend and colleague Ted Harty with Immersion Freediving onto this episode where we break down the reasons why freediving in your dive center or for you to become a freediving instructor is actually doable. In fact, you will be surprised how freediving as part of your course offerings can dramatically improve your dive business – whether in a dive center or as an independent instructor.
A little bit about Ted. Ted began his professional underwater career as a Scuba Instructor for PADI,NAUI, and SSI in 2005. In 2008 he took his first freediving class with Performance Freediving International. After that course on his days off he didn’t want to go scuba diving he wanted to go freediving, and realized his passion was freediving. In 2009 Ted took PFI’s first official Instructor program, and immediately started working for PFI helping Kirk Krack and Mandy Rae-Kruckshank teach courses all across the USA.
Ted went to his first freediving competition in 2009 as an overweight out of shape scuba instructor and progressed from 80-90ft freediver to 177ft in 3 weeks. After the experience he wondered what he could do if he actually started training. Since that time he broke a USA Freediving record in 2011, won 3 freediving competitions, was selected to be the co-captain of the USA Freediving team in 2012, and his deepest dive is 279ft. So as you can he really knows his stuff and he’s one of the best freediving instructors in the world.
And also Ted is putting on the first ever Freediving Summit – and you’ll hear about that today too.
Items In This Episode
- Benefits of freediving
- Taking freediving to the professional level
- Ted Harty’s Freediving Summit
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