Extended Range Sidemount, Imad Farhat Diving

About This Course

The Extended Range Sidemount program trains you to dive with cylinders carried at your sides, improving trim, streamlining, and access to overhead spaces. Once certified, you can apply the sidemount configuration to other SSI Extended Range programs including wreck, cave, and decompression diving.

What You'll Learn

Sidemount equipment configuration, setup, and cylinder attachment

Trim and streamlining specific to sidemount

Stage cylinder management and gas switching

Buoyancy control in sidemount

Techniques for overhead environment access

Prerequisites

Open Water Diver certification from a recognized agency
Water fitness evaluation (swim assessment and survival float)

What's Included

4 academic sessions

1 confined water session

4 open water training dives to max 40m

Digital training materials

SSI Extended Range Sidemount certification