Sidemount Technical Diving
We offer a full line of training from beginner to advanced diver and emergency rescue courses. Contact Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach now!
It was over a decade since we began diving. We fell in love quickly with the sport. After the first breath from a regulator in our pool, it became clear that this was going on to be a passion. Before we headed to the Sea of Cortez to do our checkout dives, we had already bought all of the gear. We couldn't wait to dive again in Mexico after returning from our checkout weekend. Our first year as divers saw us dive in the waters around panama. We logged more 100 dives. Our passion for diving was so strong that we decided it was time to share it with others.
This idea seems to work. To serve the gear needs and customers of the boat, it opened a dive store. The shop has grown to include a training and retail facility. You can shop at the shop to learn how to dive or plan your next diving adventure.
We offer a full line of training from beginner to advanced diver and emergency rescue courses. Contact Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach now!
Nitrox certification is required for Scuba Diving Florida. You can find the current classes on our PADI course calendar if you are interested in becoming Nitrox certified. Keep learning and improving your Florida Diving experience! Check out our Specialty of The Month page to see the amazing deals and promotions. We will be featuring a special PADI class each month, as well as great deals on equipment or trips every month.
With over 200 dives per year, we were certified Open Water Scuba Instructors (PADI), over a decade before. Since then, we have been active instructors in Arizona, Florida, Mexico and New Jersey. Both of us were able to obtain our PADI Master Scuba Diving Diver Trainer rating in less time than a year. In addition, we also teach several specialty courses. On average, we do over 150 dives per year. The majority of our dives last for more than an hour.
Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach, we are divers first. Instructors second. Yes, we are mentors and instructors but that's secondary to our diving. Too many instructors get so involved in teaching that they forget to teach their students. We won't let that happen! We have made a vow to ourselves not to do more than our own training dives each month. We have also agreed to spend at most twice as many hours in the water on our own training dives as we do on our own. This will ensure we never lose sight of our goal of providing excellent diving instruction. It is also a great way to build long-term mentorship relationships with your students. Many of our divers have become our dive buddies.
Tech Sidemount skills include: dive planning, gas management and gas switching, staged climbs, valve drillings, and out of the air.
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).