Become an Extended Range Sidemount Diver with SSI

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.

The Extended Range Sidemount program epands on your Recreational Sidemount training and trains you in how to set up and use multiple stage cylinders carried for decompression diving efficiently and effectively. It continues on to prepare you for any equipment failures you might experience while diving on a sidemount configuration carrying a stage cylinder. You will earn the SSI Extended Range Sidemount certification after completing this program and can then apply that configuration to all other extended range programs.

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