PADI SIDEMOUNT DIVER COURSE

PADI SIDEMOUNT COURSE

To the Next level

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

  • BCD and Regulator
  • Torch
  • DSMB (Spool/30meters and Surface marker buoy or Lift bag)
  • Backup Mask
  • Dive computer
  • Wrist type Compass
  • Cutting device
  • Slate and pencil
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
1Demonstrate the general setup, preparation and adjustment of a sidemount rig, including two cylinders, harness, BCD and accessories.
2Assemble and adjust the sidemount equipment that will be used on the dive.
3Demonstrate an appropriate sidemount entry into water
4Buoyancy check
5Trim check
6Locate both SPGs and indicate the gas supply
7Demonstrate 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
8Switching second stages
9Switching second stages (one hand)
10Demonstrate various propulsion techniques such as the frog kick, modified frog kick, modified flutter kick, backwards kick, helicopter turns
11Neutral buoyancy (hovering 1min)
12Neutral buoyancy without fin
13Gunning , Winging positon
14S-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.
15V-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.
16Feathering Free flowing regulator
17Exchange to back up mask
18Deploy lift bag or DSMB from bottom
Performance requirements for Dive one
1Assemble
2Pre dive safety check
3Demonstrate a sidemount entry appropriate for the local environment.
Repeat the skills of confined water
4Deploy lift bag or DSMB from bottom
Safety stop
Performance requirements for Dive two
1Pre dive safety check
2Regulator fail and valve shutdown within 60 sec
3Stem band fail
4Bungee fail
5
6Deploy a lift bag or DSMB from the bottom.
7Safety stop
Performance requirements for Dive Three
1Pre dive safety check
2
3
4Diving in tight or confined spaces
5Safety 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-learning5daysHome studying
Day16 hoursConfiguration your Equipment and Knowledge review paper test
Day27am – 12pm1 confined water dive
Day37am – 5pm3 open water dives
PADI SIDEMOUNT COURSE pre schedule
With us
First, you’ll make a confined water dive to become familiar with sidemount diving equipment. Your PADI Instructor will also teach you sidemount diving skills including: frog kicking, attaching and removing scuba tanks as you enter and exit the water, unclipping a scuba tank and swimming with the tank in front of you, and how to switch second stages and manage your breathing gas when wearing two scuba tanks. When you’re comfortable with these skills, you’ll make three open water dives where you’ll practice your new skills, buoyancy control and problem solving.
Prerequisites & Minimum Age
PADI Open Water Diver
15 years
After this course
Consider taking the Self Reliant Specialty. While it is generally recommended that you always dive with a buddy, this course will teach you the skills, risk management, and emergency processes for self-diving!