Sidemount Diving
Move differently underwater.
Learn to configure and dive with cylinders mounted at your sides for streamlined movement, flexibility and redundant gas management.
Why Sidemount?
A different way to configure your dive.
Sidemount places one or two cylinders alongside the diver rather than behind the back, changing the way equipment, buoyancy, gas and movement are managed underwater.
STREAMLINING
Move efficiently.
A carefully configured sidemount system can reduce profile and improve access in environments where conventional backmount equipment becomes restrictive.
REDUNDANCY
Manage independent gas.
Multiple cylinders provide independent gas supplies and require disciplined monitoring, switching and gas-management practices.
FLEXIBILITY
Adapt your configuration.
Sidemount can be adapted to different diving environments, equipment requirements and diver configurations.
What You Develop
The system is only half the training.
- Equipment configuration and adjustment
- Buoyancy and trim
- Efficient cylinder handling
- Gas monitoring and management
- Streamlined movement
- Controlled ascents and descents
- Problem solving and redundancy
- Safe dive planning and execution
Getting Started
Learn it properly from the beginning.
Sidemount is not simply moving your cylinders to your sides. Proper training covers equipment setup, weighting, trim, buoyancy, gas management and controlled practice.
Qualified instruction
Work with an instructor experienced in sidemount configuration and progressive skill development.
Correct equipment
Develop a configuration suited to your body, cylinders, exposure protection and intended diving environment.
Controlled practice
Build the skills progressively before taking the configuration into more demanding environments.
Sidemount Training
Ready to change your configuration?
Talk to Chola Divers about sidemount training and the pathway that fits your current certification and diving goals.