Nico Dives Cool Bali

Sidemount Diving Course

Extend Your Bottom Time and Experience a New Diving Style

Sidemount Diving Course in Bali

In Sidemount diving the air cylinders are mounted alongside the diver, below the shoulders and along the hips, instead of on the back of the diver. But Sidemount diving is more than a configuration of equipment. During the Sidemount Diving Course, you will experience a new and sometimes preferred way of diving. You will experience the ease of not having a cylinder on your back during the dive. It will allow you for better trim, buoyancy, air consumption, and overall safer diving.

Gas management has become a bit more complex. You see, each tank depends on the other and we need to understand some theoretical concepts here. However sidemount diving is safer as emergency management becomes easier. This is because you can access the air valves right in front of you.

But the most beautiful part of sidemount diving is that your cylinders are aligned with your body and therefore, your direction of travel. This makes diving much more relaxed and comfortable. It’s undeniably this feeling of freedom and weightlessness that every sidemount diver loves.

Sign up for our SSI Sidemount Diving Course and experience the feeling of being one with the water and being able to move through it freely in any orientation.

What differentiates us from other Dive Centres

At Nico Dives Cools we want you to have the best learning experience possible. This is why we keep our student ratios to dive instructors extremely low. Compared to other large dive centers you get a highly personalized course and diving practice experience. Very often our experienced diving instructor will only teach one student at a time. In general, we prefer to have no more than two students per instructor so we can ensure a quality education. Also, this is the key reason why Nico Dives Cool has such an amazing 5-star reputation amongst its customers. Having said that we can be flexible (add more instructors) if you want to do your course with several people. Simply let us know your preferences and we will make sure that you have a fantastic learning experience.

What is included in the Sidemount Diving Course?

On the day of your diving course, we will pick you up from your hotel and later drop you back off too. During the course, we will review the theoretical part, and then focus on the practical. We will learn how to assemble the sidemount equipment, how to share air, how to get a good TRIM, how to take off and put back the tanks underwater, how to manage your gas, and much more…

We will complete all required skills exercises over 4 dives in the sea. We will take you to either Tulamben, Amed or Padang Bai to complete your training dives. We are doing all the confined water skills directly in the sea at this level it is better to learn directly in a realistic environment.

Experience Summary

Prerequisites:

All Inclusive:

Learning Materials (SSI e-learning)
Sidemount Diving Course Certification
Transport in air-conditioned bus to and from training site(s)
Experienced Instructor speaking English, French, or Indonesian
3 days and 4 Open Water Sidemount Dives with skills practice in Padang Bai or Tulamben or Amed.
Porter available to carry the equipment/tank to and from the dive site
Toilet, shower, and changing rooms
Oxygen Kit and First Aid available on-site
Free WIFI at the dive shop