Overview

Sidemount configuration places your cylinders alongside your body rather than on your back, dramatically improving streamlining, trim, and in-water comfort — and making it possible to conduct more complex dives with multiple gas supplies. The SSI Sidemount specialty teaches the unique rigging, buoyancy management, and gas switching procedures required for this increasingly popular configuration, favoured by technical divers, wreck penetration divers, and those seeking greater flexibility. Prerequisite: Open Water Diver.