Recreational Sidemount Diving

SSI Sidemount Specialty course is the fastest trending course in recent years of diving. Sidemount is a scuba diving equipment configuration which has diving cylinders mounted along the diver, below the shoulders and along the hips, instead of on the back of the diver. It began as a configuration popular with advanced cave divers, as the total area of a sidemount diver is so much smaller than that of a backmount. Hence, it is much easier for a sidemount diver to maneuver in tight spaces that their back mount counterpart. Nowadays, the main reason of the Sidemount trend is the highly customizable set up, allowing divers to fine-tune their equipment to the smallest details. Moreover, a sidemount system is a good start-up for a journey in the technical diving area. Divers will learn to stage, and handle more than one tank, which is a regularity in technical diving.