Sidemount, CCR and Technical Diving From Beginner to Instructor.

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TDI Sidemount

TDI Sidemount

TDI Sidemount Diver Courseis the perfect course for any diver wishing to use this increasingly popular equipment configuration, either as a ‘stand-alone’ course or with one of TDI’s other open-circuit specialties.  It teaches students how to safely use side-mounted primary cylinders as an alternative to the traditional back-mounted method. This course takes students through the specific techniques, planning procedures and skills that set side-mounted cylinder diving apart from the traditional back-mounted method. This Specialty is a useful stand-alone course for the technical diver who wants to become more skilled and proficient with different gear configurations regardless of if he intends to use sidemount all the time.  The course may also be taught in conjunction with any of TDI’s other open-circuit specialty courses, on the condition that all prerequisites and standards applicable to both courses are fully met.

 

What you can expect to learn

During the course, the TDI Instructor takes students on a minimum of three dives and covers skills such as:

Diving Equipment Considerations

Gas Management

Attaching Cylinders

Trim and Buoyancy

Deployment of Surface Marker

Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate:

Land drills may be performed at the instructor’s discretion

Pre-dive Drills-Use START before every dive *START is an acronym for S-drill (Out of Gas drill and Bubble Check), Team (buddy equipment checks), Air (gas matching), Route (entry/exit and planned path underwater, Tables (depth, duration, waypoints and schedule)

Pre-dive Drills-Stress analysis and mitigation

In-water Drills-Demonstrate various propulsion techniques: frog kick, modified frog kick, modified flutter kick, backwards kick, helicopter turns, and hand pulling if appropriate for the environment

In-water Drills-Demonstrate adequate buoyancy control; ability to hover at fixed position in water column without moving hands or feet

In-water Drills-Demonstrate adequate trim; ability to maintain proper position during the descent, bottom and ascent portion of the dive

In-water Drills-Demonstrate the ability to perform the following exercises while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column

In-water Drills-Demonstrate the ability to safely manage gas in independent cylinders

In-water Drills-Demonstrate conservation, awareness, and back referencing techniques

In-water Drills-Deploy lift bag

In-water Drills-Carry additional cylinder(s); optional

 

Course prerequisites:

Minimum age 18

Minimum certification; SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or the equivalent