Sidemount Diving
Sidemount diving has its origins in cave diving, by taking the tanks off of their backs and placing them along the side of their body tec divers were able to reduce their profile and gain access to some very tight spots, wreck divers also saw the advantages in this, more recently it has found it’s way into open water diving.
About Sidemount Diving
Over the years Sidemount has found its way into open water tec and now recreational diving. In addition to the advantages it gives to cave and wreck divers having your tanks in front of you also provides extra gas, streamlining, the ability to identify and potential to fix any problems with your life supporting equipment, less strain on your back and easier transportation of your gear, two tanks are most definitely better than one!
Discover Sidemount
Want to try a scuba dive with two tanks along your side? Discover Sidemount is your opportunity to try this new configuration without committing to a full training program. If you decide you like it you can credit this experience to your recreational or technical sidemount course.
In this 2 hour experience your instructor will assemble your equipment for you, deliver a full briefing on its function and guide you on an open water dive on our house reef directly off the beach. Participants need to be certified as open water divers or higher and be 15 years or older.
Recreational Sidemount
With two tanks along your side your side, and the extra gas in them, you can spend less time worrying about how much you breath, equipment failure and streamlining, just relax and concentrate on enjoying your dive.
This PADI program trains divers to use a sidemount configuration for recreational, non decompression, diving. During this course you will learn how to configure sidemount equipment for use with either one or two cylinders. The training covers the use of both purpose built sidemount kit and adapted backmount dive gear.
This is a four dive course available to open water divers and higher who are at least 15 years of age, you may also combine this with you adventures in diving or advanced open water course.
Tec Sidemount IDR 9.000.000
This course is suitable for recreational divers or certified tec divers. Many divers say that once they have tried sidemount diving they don’t want to return to a backmount configuration. It’s easy to
understand why, less weight on your back, easy access to all the tank valves, faster responses to underwater emergencies and access to tight restrictions such as caves or wrecks sidemount diving is fast becoming the number one choice for tec divers.
During the PADI Tec Sidemount Diver course you will learn all you need to know about sidemount equipment setup with both purpose built, and adapted backmount gear, dive with 4 to 6 tanks, prepare for common diving emergencies and simulate several accelerated decompression dives, a great refresher for existing tec divers or a good introduction for non tec divers.
The Tec sidemount certification compliments your existing training, allowing you to use sidemount within the limits of your other certifications.
This a 5 dive program, typically conducted in 3 days, available to candidates with an advanced open water certification or higher, 30 logged dives and at least 18 years of age.
Recreational Sidemount (When one tank is not enough)
The course consists of Theory, Equipment setup and adjustment, one Pool session and 3 Open water dives in one of Bali’s most spectacular and famous dive site area.
Day 1
Morning before lunch:
– Theory and a bit back ground about sidemount diving
– Equipment setup and adjustment
After Lunch:
– Pool session, equipment adjustment as a preparation for next coming days open water dives, possibly additional pool practice if needed.
Day 2
Before lunch
– Open water dive 1, equipment adjustment
– Open water dive 2, equipment adjustment
After lunch:
– Open water dive 3
Course content: 2 days, 3 dives
There are no hidden costs, this price covers everything: Equipment, PADI material, certification fee, lunches during training, snacks, soft drinks, hotel pick up and drop of, last but not least a very dedicated and experienced Instructor.
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