IANTD Free diving instructor course

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Fred,
As you may know, Mandy-Rae is now working for PADI headquarters.

Since she is already a Course Director, and multi record holder, I was wondering if she was going to open PADI up for freediver training. I asked someone I knew at headquarters about this a few years ago, PADI freediver classes, and he just laughed as it was too dangerous, of course this was before PADI came out with their own tec-deep and trimix classes. I have a feeling that it might be a different story now.
An instructor on another list told me that he contacted PADI more recently and they allow you to teach their "skindiver" course to a max depth of 130'! That means I could already teach it and you would only need to become a PADI assistant instructor to teach it- much cheaper than a trip to Cayman for the IANTD class.

I was blown away by that technicality, but I understand that it's possible to do. ???

Thought that you'd be interested,

Jon