SSI Extended Range Sidemount Course

The SSI Extended Range Sidemount course in Malta trains you to dive in a sidemount configuration and to use multiple stage cylinders efficiently and effectively for decompression diving. This programme is ideal if you want better streamlining and trim, and you’re building skills for overhead environments like wrecks and caverns.

After completing the programme, you earn the SSI Extended Range Sidemount certification and can apply this configuration to other SSI extended range programmes.

About the SSI Extended Range Sidemount Programme

Exploring overhead environments like caves and wrecks is exciting, but traditional back-mounted equipment can be restrictive in tighter spaces. Sidemount improves trim and streamlining, helping you move through more confined areas with greater control.

The SSI Extended Range Sidemount programme focuses on:

• Sidemount configuration skills

• Techniques required to carry and use multiple stage cylinders for decompression diving efficiently and effectively

What You’ll Improve

SSI highlights the following outcomes from this training:

• Improved trim and a more streamlined body position for more relaxed dives

• Reduced fatigue and stress, with improved gas consumption

• New skills that help open up exploration of overhead environments

Training Structure and Standards

This course follows SSI’s published structure:

• Academic Sessions: 4

• Confined Water Sessions: 1

• Open Water Sessions: 4

• Maximum Training Depth: 40m / 130ft

Requirements

• Open Water Diver certification

• SSI Recreational Sidemount (or equivalent)

• SSI Nitrox & SSI Deep certified (or equivalent)

Continue Your Extended Range Training

SSI positions sidemount as a natural fit for overhead programmes where streamlining is critical. After qualifying as an Extended Range Sidemount diver, SSI notes you can move into overhead programmes such as:

• Extended Range Wreck Diving

• Extended Range Cavern Diving

• (and other overhead pathways such as cave programmes, depending on the training route)

Book Your SSI Extended Range Sidemount Course in Malta

If you want to take sidemount into decompression-level diving and build a configuration that supports wreck and cavern exploration, SSI Extended Range Sidemount is the cleanest step.

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