Sidemount Technical Diving Line
Sidemount Divers are available to anyone who is at least 18 years of age and has logged at least 30 dives. You should also hold a PADI Enriched A Diver certification.
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Tech Sidemount skills are: gas management, gas switching and staged ascents. Vale drills.
Sidemount Divers are available to anyone who is at least 18 years of age and has logged at least 30 dives. You should also hold a PADI Enriched A Diver certification.
Our first open water dives were over 200 each when we became Open Water Scuba Instructors with the Professional Association of Dive Instructors. Since then, our active teaching has been in Arizona and California as well as Mexico, New Jersey, Arizona, and Mexico. After becoming independent instructors, it took us less than a month to get our PADI Master Scuba Diving Trainer rating. We also taught several specialty courses. Each year we take over 150 dives. The majority of our dives last at least an hour.
This course covers all aspects of technical sidemount diving, including classroom workshops and three days in-water skills training.
You will learn the benefits of diving with a sidemount setup and how to create a tec-sidemount harness. Practical training will take place in one confined-water session and four open-water dives. You'll begin with two tanks and expand to at least two additional tanks.
Our courses are taught in an open-water environment. The lake provides a stable and predictable teaching environment, which is not affected negatively by the weather issues that might be encountered if we were to train at 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).