Sidemount Technical Diving Association

Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach Location






Nitrox diving Florida is the best option! For current class dates, visit our PADI course schedule. You can continue your diving education and make Florida Diving even more enjoyable! Look at our Specialty page for the latest deals and promotions. Each month, we'll feature a new PADI class special and great deals on equipment.




The new program allows instructors and retailers to save money by not having to purchase multiple sets to teach the same course to different audiences.

Sidemount Technical Diving Fins


Why choose Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach?Because we’re divers first, instructors second. Yes, we are instructors and mentors, but that comes second to our diving. We’ve seen too many instructors who get over involved in teaching and they end up never diving without students. That’s not us! We have made a pact with ourselves that we will never do more training dives in a month than our own dives. We have also promised ourselves to always do at least twice as much time in the water doing our own dives as we do training dives. This plan will ensure we never get burned out on providing the best quality dive instruction we can. We also develop long term mentoring relationships with our students. Several of our students have become our dive buddies and have gone on to help us with our exploration and survey projects in Florida and Mexico.

Sidemount Technical Diving Fins
Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach Club

Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach Club



We offer daily snorkeling and diving trips, scuba instruction, Dive In a Day, Fishing Charters, and Sunset Cruise excursions. You can rent and purchase a variety of scuba gear and snorkel equipment from our store.

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This course includes three days of instruction in the water and classroom workshops on technical sidemount diving.

Do You Need Training For Scuba Diving

Do You Need Training For Scuba Diving


We believe that training in scuba diving should not just be about learning how to respond in the event of an emergency. While this is an important aspect of the training, we also make sure that you are competent to do so once you are done. This applies to every course, whether it is Open Water or Technical. We teach you how scuba diving works, not just how it is possible to survive below water. You won’t always be able go to your knees for help if you have an issue. You should be able deal with any issues while you are underwater. That's how we train you.

Sidemount Technical Diving Panama City Beach FL




This course will teach you about the benefits of sidemount diving, as well as how to put together a tec sidemount helmet. One confined water session, four open water sessions and hands-on training are included. You'll be diving with at least two tanks and adding two more.

Frequently Asked Questions

Don't grab animals, don't hold them for photo ops, don't go for rides on dolphins or turtles, and don't force puffer fish to inflate (it can be fatal to them).