Recreational Sidemount Diving

Recreational Sidemount Diving

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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.

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12 Years Minimum Age for certification
1 Minimum Pool/Confined Sessions during Training
3 Minimum Open Water Dives during Training
30 m / 100 ft Max Depth
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TANK’D PRO DIVE CENTER UTILA, Tim Hammar

Main Street - Utila, Bay Islands, Utila - Bay Islands, OH - Honduras
$400.00
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Recreational Sidemount Diving

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