Description: Rethink your tank configuration, double your gas, and fall in love with the comfort of sidemount. Upgrade your cavern and ocean diving by learning how to use a redundant system with a focus on safety, gas management, and dive planning.
Prerequisites:
Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
Schedule:
Minimum of 4-5 full training days
Departure from Playa city center
Included:
Experienced Sidemount Instructor
Knowledge Review sessions
Complete overhead environment gear
Maximum of 3 students per instructor
Digital material & certification card
Not included:
Cenote Entrance Fees (they may vary from 17 to 27 USD)
Lunch
What can you expect to learn?
The Sidemount Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
Gas management utilizing independent cylinders
Equipment considerations
Cylinder options
Regulator options
Buoyancy compensator device (BCD)/harness options
Proper weighting
Equipment configurations
Communication
Hand signals
Problem solving
Gas-sharing
Gas hemorrhages
Water entries
Shore
Boat
S-Drills (specific to sidemount)
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
Plan dive
Test and check all equipment (depth gauges, bottom timers/watches, and computers)
Familiarization with area
Descend to planned depth and not exceed any pre-planned limits
Demonstrate the ability to safely manage gas in independent cylinders
Monitor depth/time/air consumption, figure all times on slate
Demonstrate ability to control buoyancy
Attaching sidemount cylinders while
Out of water
On surface standing on bottom
On surface in water too deep to stand
At depth
Perform gas switches
Perform safety stops
What’s in it for you?
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in sidemount diving activities without direct supervision, provided the following limits are adhered to:
Safety stops as appropriate
Planned dives do not exceed the diver’s current certification level
Sidemount Diver minimum requirements:
Perform all land drills and open water dive requirements safely and efficiently.
Demonstrate mature, sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution.
Log all dives
Questions about the pricing:
All prices are per person
All prices are in US Dollars and are subject to change without notice
Our prices include 16% sales tax
We know that things can happen before or when on vacation. We are 100% honest and transparent with our refund and cancellation policy. Please read our Terms & Conditions before you book