Sidemount Diver
Get comfortable with 2 tanks
PADI Sidemount Diver Course
Sidemount diving is not simply backmount diving with the cylinders moved to your sides. A good sidemount configuration is carefully balanced, streamlined and adjusted around the individual diver. When it is set up properly, sidemount diving offers exceptional flexibility, excellent streamlining and a completely different approach to equipment configuration.
Why learn Sidemount diving?
Sidemount diving can offer:
- A streamlined and balanced diving configuration
- Greater flexibility in how your equipment is configured
- Less weight carried on your back before entering the water
- A more comfortable option for some divers with back or mobility issues
- Two independent cylinders and regulator systems
- A new technical challenge for experienced recreational divers
- A configuration that can help keep diving comfortable as you get older
Sidemount is not necessarily better than backmount diving. It is simply different. Many divers enjoy having both options.
Who is the Sidemount Diver Course for?
This course is not designed for complete beginners.
Sidemount diving requires good basic diving skills and a reasonable level of comfort and competence in the water. It is ideal for certified divers who want to expand their skills, improve their equipment knowledge and experience a completely different style of diving.
Get Streamlined
Learn how to get your tanks lined up
Our Sidemount Diving packages:
Basic Sidemount Certification
Learn the skills. Try the configuration. Earn the certification.
Our entry-level option is designed for divers who want to experience sidemount before investing in their own equipment.
You will complete your training using rented sidemount equipment.
Your package includes:
- PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty training
- Sidemount certification
- Rental harness
- Rental sidemount regulators
- Instructor coaching
- Equipment setup guidance
Sidemount Personal Setup Package
Your own harness. Properly fitted. Properly configured.
This is our most popular option.
Your sidemount harness is included as part of your course package. Your instructor will work with you to fit and configure the harness so that it works correctly for you.
You will complete the course using your own system and leave with a harness that you understand and can continue using.
Your package includes:
- PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty training
- Sidemount certification
- Your own sidemount harness
- Professional fitting and adjustment
- Personal equipment configuration
- Rental sidemount regulators during training
- Instructor coaching
Ready-to-Dive Sidemount Package
Everything you need to begin your sidemount diving journey.
The Complete Package includes your own sidemount harness plus two complete sidemount regulator systems.
Your instructor will help you configure the complete system during the course and make sure you understand how to set up and use your equipment.
When you complete your training, you leave with your own complete sidemount system.
For future dives, you simply need to rent cylinders and weights.
Your package includes:
- PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty training
- Sidemount certification
- Your own sidemount harness
- Professional fitting and adjustment
- Two complete sidemount regulator systems
- Personal equipment configuration
- Instructor coaching