Tec SIDEMOUNT COURSE
Learn how to manage 4 tanks
The purpose for PADI TEC Sidemount diver course
If you’ve looked into technical diving, you realize that tec divers always wear more than one tank. Sidemount is an increasingly popular way to configure multiple cylinders for technical diving. You can enter the world of tec diving with the Tec Sidemount Diver course and apply what you learn to other TecRec courses. Your instructor may offer to integrate this course with the Tec 40
Equipment to be prepared by yourself
Student Prerequisites
- Be certified as a PADI Advanced open water diver or have a equivalent
- Be 18 years of age or older
Recommendation from TEAL ORANGE DIVE
- Have a own equipments
- Usually perform the frog kick( helicopter turn, backward kick )
- Be certified Rec SIDEMOUNT or equivalent
Introduce a section of the PADI TEC Sidemount diver course
Buoyancy control
Basic skills such as normal hovering, helicopter turns, and back kicks will be performed while mounting a total of three tanks.
Performance Objectives
| Dive Four | Dive Five | |
|---|---|---|
| Environment | Open water | Open water |
| Gases | Air or EANx | Air or EANx |
| Depth | Min10 ~ Max 30msw | Min10 ~ Max 30msw |
| Tanks | 3 or 4 tanks | 3 or 4 tanks |
| 1 | Predive sequence (GUE EDGE) | Predive sequence (GUE EDGE) |
| 2 | Bubble check | Bubble check |
| 3 | Trim check and Hovering 1min | Trim check and Hovering 1min |
| 4 | S-drill ( Bottom gas ) donor and receiver 15m | S-drill ( Bottom gas ) donor and receiver 15m |
| 5 | Staging and Retrieving Deco/Stage cylinder at decompression station(line) | |
| 6 | Staging and Retrieving stage/deco cylinder at depth | Staging and Retrieving Two deco/stage cylinder |
| 7 | Deco to Deco NO TOX gas switch( simulate ) | |
| 8 | V-drill Simulated failure of free flowing deco gas regulator within 40sec | |
| 9 | NO TOX gas switch and simulate deco stop at 6m | |
| Simulate deco stop at 3m |
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
PADI SIDEMOUNT COURSE pre schedule
| E-learning | 5days | Home studying |
| Day1 | 6 hours | Configuration your Equipment and Knowledge review paper test Practical Application |
| Day2 | 7am – 12pm | 1 confined water dive |
| Day3 | 7am – 5pm | 2 open water dives |
| Day4 | 7am – 5pm | 2 open water dives |
