PADI Sidemount Diver

2 Days to Complete

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Perhaps you’re an avid wreck diver or cave enthusiast, and would like to reconfigure your gear to open up more possibilities to penetrate more dive sites and explore further. Become more streamlined and improve your trim with the PADI Sidemount Specialty Course and you’ll have better balance and stability in the water.

The course will begin with an in-depth classroom presentation with your dedicated Instructor, before moving on to practicing some essential skills and equipment and tank configurations in our training pool. You will follow this with two open water training dives over one day. During these, we will look at your pre-dive set up, equipment configuration, buoyancy, and trim underwater. Enjoy the additional movement and freedom underwater!

Combined with the PADI Sidemount Diver Manual, this course provides you with all the knowledge and skills necessary to organise, set up, and execute a sidemount dive with two tanks.

Don’t forget, the first dive of this Specialty Course counts towards your PADI Adventure and Advanced Open Water Certification! The full Specialty Course counts towards the elite PADI Master Scuba Diver rating!

 

Requirements:

• Open Water Diver Certified

• At least 15 years old

• Logged dive within 12 months (ReActivate available)

 

Achievements:

• Become more streamlined and comfortable underwater

• Extend and improve your equipment knowledge

• Learn how to dive with two tanks

 

Certifications:

• Set up and manage a sidemount configuration

• Better control your position and buoyancy underwater

• Penetrate wreck or cave openings (where qualified)