Padi Side Mount Training.

+PADI  Side mount training, Having scuba tanks on your back isn’t a requirement for exploring the underwater world. Many scuba divers have discovered the joy of mounting cylinders on their sides. Sidemount diving gives you flexibility and streamlining options. Plus, you don’t have to walk with heavy cylinders on your back – just enter the water, clip them on and go. Sound interesting?

So we had Luciano and his brother Neil come over to us to do some side mount training, so we spent the day in the classroom at +Buddies Dive Cove  doing paper work classroom theory, and setting up tanks and side mount wings supplied by Dare to Dive, so here we go for the next few days just side mounting and boy did we have fun.

We start in shallow water( confined) to get you use to it as its like starting all over again, what will you learn! Well lets see!

• Properly assemble and configure sidemount scuba diving equipment.
• Trim your weight system and sidemount gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water.
• Manage gas by switching second stages as planned, if wearing two cylinders.
• Respond correctly to potential problems when sidemount diving.

Side mount diving is not abut putting tanks on your side and jumping in!! Side mount came from caving! from checking partially flooded caves were the tank would be dragged along behind them or clipped in to hip! as time went on it became more popular with divers and kit and safety procedures changed. To exploring fully flooded cave systems, to what we know today as side mounting! keeping your tanks as close to you as possible and thus making you more stream line and able to enter into the smallest holes, because you can remover the tanks during the dive!

So if you  would like to try something different and join the ranks as +PADI  side mount diver then let us know!

Big well done guys on passing the course and see ya again soon for more fun!
Run in collaboration with Buddies Dive Cove Malta.