PADI SIDEMOUNT COURSE
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The purpose for Padi Sidemount Diver Course
Discover the balance and efficiency of sidemount scuba diving with your PADI dive instructor. Many divers find sidemount tanks are more comfortable and easier to put on in the water. Sidemount diving is also beneficial for divers who want improved balance and prolonged dives.
Equipment to be prepared by yourself
Student Prerequisites
- Be certified as a PADI open water diver or have a equivalent
- Be 15 years of age or older
Recommendation from TEAL ORANGE DIVE
- Have a own equipments
- Usually perform the frog kick( helicopter turn, backward kick )
Performance Objectives
| Performance requirements for Confined water session | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Demonstrate the general setup, preparation and adjustment of a sidemount rig, including two cylinders, harness, BCD and accessories. |
| 2 | Assemble and adjust the sidemount equipment that will be used on the dive. |
| 3 | Demonstrate an appropriate sidemount entry into water |
| 4 | Buoyancy check |
| 5 | Trim check |
| 6 | Locate both SPGs and indicate the gas supply |
| 7 | Demonstrate the ability to perform the following exercises while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column: ・Unclipping and attaching sidemount cylinders ・Perform gas switches with and without a mask |
| 8 | Switching second stages |
| 9 | Switching second stages (one hand) |
| 10 | Demonstrate various propulsion techniques such as the frog kick, modified frog kick, modified flutter kick, backwards kick, helicopter turns |
| 11 | Neutral buoyancy (hovering 1min) |
| 12 | Neutral buoyancy without fin |
| 13 | Gunning , Winging positon |
| 14 | S-drill : Respond to a simulated out-of-gas emergency as both the donor and as the receiver by sharing gas with a long hose second stage, then swimming 15 metres/50 feet maintaining contact with a buddy. |
| 15 | V-drill : Respond to a simulated failed regulator or failed cylinder valve by switching second stages (if necessary to maintain a breathing supply) and shutting down the simulated affected cylinder valve, within 60 seconds. |
| 16 | Feathering Free flowing regulator |
| 17 | Exchange to back up mask |
| 18 | Deploy lift bag or DSMB from bottom |
| Performance requirements for Dive one | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Assemble |
| 2 | Pre dive safety check |
| 3 | Demonstrate a sidemount entry appropriate for the local environment. |
| Repeat the skills of confined water | |
| 4 | Deploy lift bag or DSMB from bottom |
| Safety stop |
| Performance requirements for Dive two | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pre dive safety check |
| 2 | Regulator fail and valve shutdown within 60 sec |
| 3 | Stem band fail |
| 4 | Bungee fail |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Deploy a lift bag or DSMB from the bottom. |
| 7 | Safety stop |
| Performance requirements for Dive Three | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pre dive safety check |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Diving in tight or confined spaces |
| 5 | Safety stop |
Take This Course If You Want to
- Experience a different scuba configuration
- Improve gas management
- Gain insight into basic tec diving techniques
Learn How to
- Gas matching procedures to include dissimilar volumes
- Gas management utilizing independent cylinders
- Psychological considerations of technical diving
- Equipment considerations including:
- Cylinder options
- Regulator options
- Buoyancy compensator/harness options
- Proper weighting
- Equipment configurations
- Communication (light and hand signals)
- Problem solving in a sidemount configuration
- Diving in tight or confined spaces
- Conservation
- Water entries/exits
- S-drills specific to sidemount diving
- Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
- Demonstrate various propulsion techniques such as the frog kick, modified frog kick, modified flutter kick, backwards kick, helicopter turns, and hand pulling if appropriate for the environment.
- Demonstrate adequate buoyancy control; ability to hover at a fixed position in water column without moving hands or feet
- Demonstrate adequate trim; ability to maintain proper position during the descent, bottom, and ascent portion of the dive
- Demonstrate the ability to perform the following exercises while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column:
- Unclipping and attaching sidemount cylinders
- Perform gas switches with and without a mask
- Demonstrate the ability to safely manage gas in independent cylinders
- Demonstrate conservation, awareness, and back referencing techniques
- Deploy a lift bag
- Carry additional cylinders is optional in this course
Introduce a section of the PADI Sidemount diver course
Buoyancy and Trim
In the Rec Sidemount Diver course, divers manage two cylinders. As a prerequisite for taking the course, it’s important that divers already have mastered the basics of neutral buoyancy, fin work, and trim in a single backmount configuration.
Training is conducted in a nearly motionless hover, practicing helicopter turns and back kicks, among other techniques, without the use of fins
PADI SIDEMOUNT COURSE pre schedule
| E-learning | 5days | Home studying |
| Day1 | 6 hours | Configuration your Equipment and Knowledge review paper test |
| Day2 | 7am – 12pm | 1 confined water dive |
| Day3 | 7am – 5pm | 3 open water dives |