TEC SIDEMOUNT COURSE

Tec SIDEMOUNT COURSE

Learn how to manage 4 tanks

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

  • BCD and Regulator
  • Torch x2
  • DSMB x2 (Spool/30meters and Surface marker buoy or Lift bag)
  • Backup Mask
  • Dive computer x2
  • Wrist type Compass
  • Cutting device x2
  • Slate and pencil
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
Performance Objectives
Dive FourDive Five
EnvironmentOpen waterOpen water
GasesAir or EANxAir or EANx
DepthMin10 ~ Max 30mswMin10 ~ Max 30msw
Tanks 3 or 4 tanks 3 or 4 tanks
1Predive sequence
(GUE EDGE)
Predive sequence
(GUE EDGE)
2Bubble checkBubble check
3Trim check and Hovering 1minTrim check and Hovering 1min
4S-drill ( Bottom gas ) donor and receiver 15mS-drill ( Bottom gas ) donor and receiver 15m
5Staging and Retrieving Deco/Stage cylinder at decompression station(line)
6Staging and Retrieving stage/deco cylinder at depthStaging and Retrieving Two deco/stage cylinder
7Deco to Deco NO TOX gas switch( simulate )
8V-drill Simulated failure of free flowing deco gas regulator within 40sec
9NO 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-learning5daysHome studying
Day16 hoursConfiguration your Equipment and Knowledge review paper test
Practical Application
Day27am – 12pm1 confined water dive
Day37am – 5pm2 open water dives
Day47am – 5pm2 open water dives
TEC SIDEMOUNT COURSE pre schedule