Technical Sidemount Scuba Dive Training

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You may be eligible for certifications from other diving organizations - check with your Tec Sidemount PCB Instructor.

This course (Intro to Tech) introduces recreational divers to the rigors and discipline of technical diving, and is a great preparatory course if you are considering specific technical diver training, such as cave or decompression diving, or are interested in streamlining your equipment configuration for maximum efficiency. Learn about dive planning, physics and physiology, decompression, decompression associated with technical diving, buoyancy control, and side-mount configuration. The NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration (NTEC) training is also part of the NAUI Intro to Tech course.

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Side Mount Scuba Tanks

You should not use sidemount in your cave diver training. Our CDS Basics Orientation class is what you need.

You can enroll in Tec Sidemount PCB Diver courses if you are at least 18 years of age and have logged at least 30 dives. You should also hold a PADI Enriched Diver certification.

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Technical Sidemount Scuba Dive Training Exercises

Technical Sidemount Scuba Dive Training Exercises

If you will not be using sidemount during your cave diver training, what you should be looking at is our CDS Basics Orientation course.

The shift from sidemounting to backmounted doubles has been one of the biggest changes in equipment cave divers have seen since the turn of the century. A large number of cave divers sidemount. Additionally, there may be more sidemount cave divers than open-circuit backmount cave divers.

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The cylinders are lightweight and easy to carry, with no steel or aluminum back plates.

Graduates may take part in sidemount diving activities after completing this course. However, they must adhere to the following restrictions:

Sidemount Diver

Sidemount is not something you'll be doing during cave diving training. Instead, you should look at our CDS Basics Orientation Course.

Sidemount PCB diving is now growing in popularity within the technical diving community for general decompression diving and is becoming an increasingly popular specialty training for recreational diving, with several diver certification agencies offering recreational and technical level sidemount training programs

Technical Sidemount Scuba Dive Training
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Frequently Asked Questions

from 130 to 148 feet
Those who are already decompression certified can immediately qualify for rebreather decompression dives. Individual training agencies set depth limits ranging from 130 to 148 feet (40 to 45 meters).

PADI Adventure Diver is a subset of PADI Advanced Open Water Diver. Have you ever considered trying your hand at digital underwater photography, fish identification, or dry suit diving? During this program, you can participate in a variety of scuba adventures.

Tec divers can visit reefs and wrecks at depths well below the recreational limit of 40 meters/130 feet. They can explore underwater caves and other locations far beyond the reach of mainstream sport diving with specialized training.