Nico Dives Cool Bali

SSI Extended Range Sidemount Foundations

Start your XR journey in Bali with the 3 day program SSI Extended Range Sidemount Foundations

Improve your streamlining and diver trim with SSI’s Extended Range Sidemount Program. This is a full sidemount course with the XR Sidemount configuration using 3 tanks.

Exploring overhead environments like caves and wrecks is an exciting endeavor. However, squeezing traditional dive equipment into the tight spaces found within these areas can be challenging. Improving your diver trim and streamlining by using a sidemount configuration allows you to explore more constricted places than ever before.

Become an SSI Extended Range Sidemount Foundations Diver in Bali

The Extended Range Sidemount Foundations program trains you to dive in a sidemount configuration and the techniques required to use multiple-stage cylinders carried for decompression diving efficiently and effectively. You will earn the SSI Extended Range Sidemount Sidemount certification after completing this program and can then apply that configuration to all other extended range programs.

What you learn with the SSI XR Sidemount Foundations Course:

– Comprehensive introduction to the sidemount configuration and sidemount diving techniques.

– Advanced Buoyancy & Trim: achieve near-perfect trim and buoyancy control.

– Propulsion & Positioning: master advanced finning techniques (frog kick, backward kick, helicopter turns) and body positioning.

– Technical gear familiarization: learn to use the technical gear set up in a sidemount configuration.

– Communication: develop efficient underwater communication signals to avoid any confusion.

– Skill refinement: improve and perfect your basic skills, build up muscle memory for more safety and comfort.

Who is the SSI XR Sidemount Foundations Course suitable for:

– Open Water and Advanced divers with enough experience, wanting to transition to tech diving using a sidemount configuration.

– Divers preparing for courses like Extended Range 40 or Extended Range 45 in Sidemount configuration.

– Certified technical divers looking to refine fundamental skills or do an XR refresher in sidemount configuration

Here are the key benefits of the SSI XR Sidemount Foundations Course:

– Learn sidemount diving techniques (enhanced flexibility, streamlined profile, redundant gas supply).

– Learn how to dive in a technical sidemount configuration using a stage tank (diving with 3 tanks).

– Builds confidence, stability, and control.

– Provides all the basics and fundamental skills for advanced and technical diving.

– Prepare you for better and more complex dives.

– Make you a more competent and safe diver in any environment.

What differentiates us from other Dive Centres:

NICO DIVES COOL BALI Diving Center differentiates itself through a highly personalized approach, particularly by maintaining some of the lowest instructor-to-student ratios in Bali. This focus on individual attention and premium quality makes it a distinct choice for divers transitioning into more technical skill sets.

Nico Dives Cool Bali provides high-quality personalised diving training across diverse sites like Padang Bai, Tulamben, Amed, Nusa Penida, and Candidasa – the great location variety exposes divers to different conditions and environments.

Nico Dives Cool Bali exclusively uses high-end premium equipment such as ScubaPro MK25 regulators, Java Sidemount Harness, Razor Sidemount Harness, and XDEEP Sidemount Harness.

Nico Dives Cool Bali focuses not only on recreational diving all around Bali, but also offers specific pathways into XR, technical, and advanced configurations. Safety and quality always come first. Our wish is to make you smile, and we really mean it!