SIDEMOUNT DIVER
This course teaches you how to configure and use one or two cylinders mounted at your sides instead of on your back.
Experience a different way to streamline in the water, reduce lower back strain and take advantage of the increased gas supply for longer dives.
Sidemount diving is configuring the diver’s cylinders under the diver’s arms, rather than on the back. This configuration is well suited to a lot of different environments and implies excellent advantages for divers with limited mobility that prefer sidemount over wearing back mounted cylinders.
- Experience a different scuba configuration
- Improve gas management
- Gain insight into basic tec diving techniques
- Reduce lower back strain
- Increase your gas supply for longer dives
- Be at least 15 years old
- Be at least a certified Open Water Diver / Junior Open Water Diver
- Last dive not more than 6 months ago, otherwise a Refresher / ReActivate course is required.
- Medically fit to dive, for safety, all participants must complete a brief medical prior to commencing the dive. If none of the listed conditions apply, you sign the form and you’re ready to start. If any of them apply to you, as a safety precaution, a physician must assess the condition as it relates to diving and sign a medical form that confirms that you’re fit to dive, dated within the last 12 months. Click here to view the form
For Tec Sidemount Diver:
- Be at least 18 years of age or older.
- Be at least Advanced Open Water Diver.
- Have at least 30 logged dives.
- Be certified as Enriched Air Nitrox Diver is recommended.
THEORY
Digital / eLearning OR Traditional Classroom and Book:
The Sidemount Course provides structured training for recreational divers who wish to safely and effectively use sidemount configuration for their diving. The course includes, knowledge development and practical applications, allowing divers to learn how to properly set up and configure sidemount kits.
Divers also participate in a series of open water training sessions, enabling them to get the most out of this ground breaking approach to scuba diving.
Average eLearning / Book Reading time: 2-4 hours
For Traditional Classroom/Book option – Successful Classroom Time: 1 hour for 1 day
CONFINED DIVES
In confined water session you will practice sidemount skills such as: Assembling, donning and adjusting the sidemount equipment, donning sidemount cylinders in the water, locating both SPGs, establishing neutral buoyancy and swimming using flutter kicks and frog kicks, managing your gas by switching second stages, sharing gas and exiting the water
Successful Confined water Dives: 1 dive – 1 days
ADVENTURE DIVES
In open water dives you will learn assembling, donning and adjusting the sidemount equipment, predive safety check, demonstrating a sidemount entry appropriate for the local environment, donning sidemount cylinders in the water, establishing buoyancy and adjusting for proper weighting, locating both SPGs, establishing neutral buoyancy and swimming using flutter kicks and frog kicks 24 meters, and many more.
Successful Open water Dives: 3 dives – 1 days
COURSE FEES
| Agency | Course Type | Course Fees QAR |
|---|---|---|
|
PADI |
eLearning Studying Material |
2,300.00 |
Above fees include:
- Course studying material
- Diving gear and equipment during the entire course
- PADI Digital Certificate
- Wall Certificate
- Covered by our professional diving insurance
- Underwater photography during the course
- Soft drinks
Above fees exclude:
- Transportation to the Dive Site and Return
- Personal items (swimwear , towel, sunscreen etc.)
FAQ
Side mount offers real gas redundancy by using two independent cylinders, preventing complete air depletion.
It increases safety by protecting the valves and regulator first stages under the armpits, where they are visible and easy to reach, permitting a fast identification and handling of eventual equipment failures.
The configuration is comfortable to wear as it releases the weight from the back and the hips. Also, it becomes easy to take off and put the cylinder back on, without removing the harness. This can be practical on the surface, but also very enjoyable underwater!
The configuration is also versatile. You can carry a single recreational scuba cylinder, usually on the left side. You lose gas redundancy, but this is of course not an issue, as long as you’re diving with a buddy and within non-decompression limits
The Razor system can carry up to six full on side mount and stage cylinders for cave and technical diving purposes
No, the Advanced Open Water Diver Certificate does not have expiry date nor need to be renewed, however, you will need to keep diving very often to build up experience in diving and not to forget what you have learned during your course.
After getting your certificate, you can browse large variety of dive specialties to enlarge your knowledge about different adventures of diving or you can always join Poseidon Dive Center dive club and have many privileges by becoming a member such as free dives for more information about our dive club CLICK HERE or simply book and join our usual weekends dives for fun under our supervision and guidance by PDC’s crew.
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