Sidemount Technical Diving Experience
Tech Sidemount skills include gas switching, gas management, gas switching staged ascents and valve drills.
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.
Scuba diving training should not be limited to learning how to handle any eventualities. Although this is an important part of training, we ensure that you can do it when you're done. However, you should also be able to do this in mid-water and not at the bottom with your knees. This applies to all courses we offer, including Open Water and Technical. You will learn how to scuba dive and not how to survive underwater. It is not always possible to dive in an area that allows you to get down to the bottom if an issue occurs. It is important to be able and willing to tackle any issue in the water. That's what we teach.
Tech Sidemount skills include gas switching, gas management, gas switching staged ascents and valve drills.
This course covers technical sidemount diving skills and equipment. It includes classroom workshops as well as three days of in-water skill development.
Sidemount Pros will provide you with your sidemount harness as well as the hardware to mount your sidemount cylinders. You can purchase the equipment as it is custom-configured for you during the course.
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.
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.
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).