Advanced Wreck Sidemount

Program Content

The Advanced Wreck Sidemount course gives the student the tools and understanding to help conduct safer Sidemount dives within the overhead environment. A number of topics will be covered during the program. There will be focus on buoyancy control, equipment configuration, equipment streamlining and awareness, proper fining techniques, dangers in the overhead environment and placement of stage cylinders.

The diving portion of the program will entail 12 dives over a number of days. The first set of dives consists of confined-water skills work-up dives. These dives establish the students' buoyancy, trim, configuration and comfort of their equipment, as well as completing a number of timed task-loading skills and a number of team-building exercises.

The remaining dives will take place on one or more of BC's artificial reefs. Thanks to the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia, there are several large artificial reefs in relatively close proximity, allowing us to offer our students a wider range of experiences and challenges during our program.

Prerequisites

• At least 21 years of age
• Good physical condition
• Completed medical questionnaire
• Technical Diver certification
• Rescue Diver certification
• First Aid training
• Logged proof of 250 dives, including:
  • 50 Technical dives
  • 25 decompression dives since completing the Technical Diver Level 2 program
  • 25 decompression dives in the last 12 months
• DAN Master Plan or higher dive insurance

Course Limits

• Student to instructor ratio 3:1 during open water dives
• Maximum depth during course dives 150 feet (45 metres)
• No training dives will be at night
• Decompression gases in multiple stage tanks will range from 50% to 100% O2

Tuition
All fees are in Canadian dollars

• Tuition fee: $1,200
• Certification fees, manuals, dive gases, boat fees and other course expenses are extra and are subject to change

At H2O Madness our courses are designed to help students find the tools they need in order to expand their knowledge and meet their diving goals. When you take a course form us you are not paying for a certification, you are purchasing training. Certification will only be issued if the student completes the program in the required time and to the satisfaction of the primary instructor.