This program generally takes three days. With sufficient notice, we can usually offer this course when it’s most convenient for you.

• Be at least 12 years old
• Be certified to at least the Open Water Diver level
• Be able to answer No to all the questions on the medical history questionnaire or obtain a physician’s approval for diving

$300/person includes:

• All instruction
• Self-study materials

You supply:

• Mask and snorkel
• Adjustable scuba fins and wetsuit boots
• Full-length wetsuit (5 mm or more recommended)
• Two sidemount cylinders
• Two separate regulators each with its own SPG
• Sidemount harness and air cell
• Dive computer
• Underwater compass
• Dive knife/cutting tool
• Dive light
• SMB

Items you don’t already own are generally available for rent. Students are also responsible for gas fills and dive site admission.

Since the beginning of the century, one of the most significant changes in equipment has been the increasingly widespread use of sidemount. Sidemount can provide a number of benefits for any diver. Among them:

• Sidemount provides total gas redundancy. Even should you lose the use of an entire sidemount bottle, you should be able to return to your starting point without having to share gas with a buddy.

• With sidemount, you don’t need eyes in the back of your head. You can check to make sure cylinders, valves and regulators aren’t leaking just by looking down at them.

• Go where others can’t. Sidemount may provide the opportunity to fit easily through openings which might be a tight squeeze with backmounted cylinders.

Our recreational Sidemount Diver course not only covers equipment configuration and set-up but the specialized skills which are unique to sidemount use.