PADI Tec Sidemount Instructor Course

Overview: This course enables you to teach technical diving using the sidemount configuration, offering divers an alternative equipment setup for enhanced flexibility and streamlining.

Prerequisites:

1. PADI Enriched Air Instructor.
2. PADI Deep Diver Specialty Instructor.
3. PADI Tec Instructor or higher.
4. PADI Tec Sidemount Diver certification or equivalent.
5. At least 20 logged technical sidemount dives, including 10 with three or more cylinders.

Included:

• Use of stages and weights.
• Gases as per course requirements.
• Instruction and land transport to dive sites.

Excluded:

• Personal technical diving equipment (e.g., regulators, wing and harness, suit, fins).
• Manuals and logbook.
• Dive supplements (e.g., boat fees, Gozo trips, historical wreck licenses).
• PADI application fees.

Additional Costs:

• PADI Tec Sidemount Instructor eLearning: €100
• PADI TecRec Instructor registration fee: €59 (payable directly to PADI)