Become a sidemount diver and enjoy comfort, exploration and a new feeling of buoyancy.
Becoming more popular amongst scuba divers, Sidemount Diving is already a standard practice for scuba diving wrecks, caves and tight spaces. However, with the new found ease of movement as well as a new feeling of buoyancy, side mount diving is enticing more divers than ever because of the advantages of this scuba diving style. Plus another benefit is the way of wearing the sidemount gear before you jump in the water without a heavy tank on your back.
In our sidemount diving program, you’ll learn all you need to go single or two-cylinder recreational sidemount diving to a maximum depth of 30 meters or to your certification depth, whichever is deeper.
Sidemount diving is already common practice for wreck, mine, and cave divers, but now the benefits are being discovered by more and more recreational divers.
With no heavy tank on your back, you’ll be more comfortable in the water and find your streamlining and trim improve effortlessly. By using less energy you may reduce your gas consumption so you can make the most of your dive time.
With better buoyancy control, easier access to your valves and more redundancy as well, sidemount diving offers safety and peace of mind.
This is the best sidemount diving course to discover and enjoy the enticing advantages of this dive style. You will learn all the skills and knowledge you need to safely and comfortably dive with a single or two-cylinder sidemount equipment configuration.
Topics you will cover include:
- A brief history of sidemount diving and the global development
- Sidemount beyond the caves
- Sidemount configuration types and styles
- Advantages of Sidemount Diving
- Sidemount diving protocol
- Sidemount equipment
- How to configure and use sidemount equipment
To complete the program you will complete online learning, one confined open water pool session and a minimum of 3 Open Water dives completed at one of our Open Water weekends.
On completion you will earn your SSI Recreational Sidemount Diver certification.
Prerequisites:
MINIMUM AGE: 12 Years
MINIMUM CERTIFICATION: Open Water Diver
Requirements for completion:
Complete all academic modules online and pass final exam
Complete confined water session prior to open water training
Complete a minimum of 3 open water training dives, with a cumulative time of at least 90 minutes.
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