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Sidemount Speciality


Sidemount Speciality
Sidemount Speciality
RRP: £249.00
Our Price: £149.00
 

 
Why do this course..?

Benefits for the recreational diver are;

  • This course acts as a great "intro to technical diving" course.
  • It is an easy start to diving with more than one cylinder.
  • Course stays within the recreational diving limits.
  • Only additional sidemounting skills are learn't, so no mask swims and other advanced tec skills are left for further technical courses (see course skills list below).
  • Also see benefits to the technical diver as some apply to the recreational diver.

Benefits for the technical diver are;

  • Enables access to dive sites that taking a backmounted twinset is either difficult or impossible.
  • Your cylinders are put on and taken off in water so no more straining your back and body.
  • A system that offers a "true" redundant and independent air source (without carrying additional cylinders).
  • Having the cylinders at your side enables betters trim and buoyancy control (than with a twinset).
  • Now means easy access to your cylinder valves should a problem arise (fixes the can not reach behind the head problem).
  • Same equipment is used during more advanced advanced technical training e.g. "wreck penetration" and cave diving in "restrictions".
  • Having this specialty enables you to take further training using sidemount equipment.

Skills learn't during this course;

  • Don and doff their sidemount cylinders whilst in the water.
  • Conduct a buoyancy check at the surface.
  • Demonstrate equipment matching exercise and dive plan review (prior to descent).
  • Donor and receiver to an out of air diver.
  • Switch regulators to keep gas balanced in their independent cylinders.
  • Neutral buoyancy swimming using various finning techniques (frog, modified flutter and shuffle kick).
  • Demonstrate helicopter turn (while maintaining neutral buoyancy).
  • Demonstrate static neutral buoyancy for 1 minute.
  • Valve shutdowns exercise combined with gas switches (safety drill).
  • Demonstrate removal and replacement of all non-life support equipment whilst underwater.
  • Demonstrate sidemount cylinder band failure procedures whilst underwater.
  • Simulate a regulator free flow and breathe from regulator using (valve fluttering).
  • Maintain the correct trim of the sidemount cylinders (especially when buoyant).
  • Sidemount bungee failure, replace with spare.
  • Demonstrate SMB deployment and maintain a safety stop for 3 minutes.