TDI Sidemount Fundamentals
Learn to Sidemount like a Pro. The benefits of using sidemount include redundancy, better buoyancy control and trim, being more streamlined and comfortable in the water, and acquiring a substantial tec oriented skill-set.
This course covers the fundamentals of sidemount diving including one day of classroom workshops and three days of in-water skills development. The training provided is suitable for certified divers looking to learn sidemount diving and certified divers wanting to progress to technical diving.
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Specific skills taught during this course include:
- Sidemount equipment selection and setup
- Water entries
- Donning and doffing cylinders
- Buoyancy control and trim
- Tec diving propulsion techniques - frog kick, modified frog kick, helicopter turn, back kick
- Sidemount skills including, gas management, valve drills, out of air (donor/receiver)
- Cylinder removal in water, partial and full
Pre-requisites:
- Minimum age 18 or 15 with parental consent
- Advanced Open Water Diver or greater
Course materials Included in the course:
A sidemount harness/BCD will be provided for this course along with the hardware required to set up your sidemount cylinders.
As the equipment is personally configured for you during your course, it will be available for purchase should you wish to take advantage of this.
Additional diving equipment is to be provided by the student including; dive computer, compass, mask, fins, exposure protection, cutting devices, reels/spools and wet-notes/slate.
About your instructor:
Steve Davis is a TDI Sidemount instructor. Having completed sidemount, overhead and open water tec skills, Steve built on this by diving exclusively in sidemount for the next two years and accumulated more than 200 sidemount dives in cave, wreck and open water environments. Steve's philosophy has always been, "to be world-class, you need to learn from the best". To this end, Steve undertook Advanced Wreck training with renown wreck diver and explorer, John Chatterton and followed this with an intensive two months of training with Tom Steiner at Gozo Technical Diving, in Gozo and Malta. During this period, Steve undertook Tec-Sidemount, Normoxic Trimix, SDI Instructor and Specialty Instructor, Advanced Gas Blending and Full Cave training under Tom's mentoring and watchful eye.
