Open water training for our Courses is done in a conducive environment. The lake provides a more stable and predictable teaching environment which is not affected by the weather problems we might face if using an ocean location.
Tech Sidemount skills include gas switching, gas management, gas switching staged ascents and valve drills.
The benefits of using a sidemount configuration for diving as well how to set up a sidemount harness with tec. This training includes four open water dives and one confined water. You will have at least two tanks to start with and then you can add up to two more.
We became Open Water Scuba Instructors through the Professional Association of Dive Instructors (PADI) over a decade ago with over 200 dives each. Since then we have been actively teaching throughout Arizona, Florida, Mexico, New Jersey, and Southern California. We were both able to earn our PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating less than a year after becoming independent instructors and teaching several specialty courses. We average over 150 dives each year. Most of our dives last over an hour.
This course covers technical sidemount diving skills and equipment. It includes classroom workshops as well as three days of in-water skill development.
We are just trying to provide some information for potential students about technical and cave diving instructors. It may be an easy or difficult process. Both of us chose to complete the challenging task of becoming cave diving and technical dive instructor instructors.
The new SDI/TDI Sidemount Diver programme is much more than a simple "how to" guide on sidemount diving. This is a comprehensive, complete training set that will make sidemount diving learning and teaching simple.
Don't grab animals, don't hold them for photo ops, don't go for rides on dolphins or turtles, and don't force puffer fish to inflate (it can be fatal to them).