Ted Harty 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, participated in PFI’s first official Instructor program in 2009, and immediately started working for PFI. Ted went to his first freediving competition in 2009 as an overweight, out of shape scuba instructor and progressed from 80-90 ft free dives to 177 ft in 3 weeks. Breaking a USA Freediving record in 2011, his deepest freedive is 279ft, and his longest breath-hold is 7 minutes. He is the founder of Immersion Freediving, www.Freedivingsafety.com, and www.Onlineclasses.ImmersionFreediving.com