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Sidemount Diver in the United States: 5 dive centres on TecDiveTools, with agencies, courses taught and a summary of what students say. 2 publish course prices.
TecDiveTools lists 5 dive centres teaching Sidemount Diver in the United States. 2 of them publish course prices, in the currency the shop advertises and with the date each was checked — not converted, and not estimated.
Listings are ordered by how much evidence exists about their technical diving, not by a star rating, with any paid Featured listing shown first and marked as such (how rankings work). 3 of these 5 carry reviews we have read and classified as being about technical or overhead training. The count excludes recreational certifications by name, so a busy resort does not outrank a one-instructor cave operation on the volume of its reef trips. Separately, 3 have at least one instructor whose reviews we have read and summarised — a dive centre carries no synthesis of its own. How we read and count reviews.
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About the course
Sidemount configuration training for alternative tank mounting on the sides versus back, improving trim, redundancy, and gas management through distributed cylinder carry. Teaches tank attachment, harness assembly, wing sizing, and horizontal trim optimization. Sidemount excels in tight wreck penetrations, long-distance dives, and technical applications; popular among both recreational and technical divers seeking better buoyancy and streamlined profiles.
Sidemount harness assembly and rigging, cylinder attachment and bailout procedures, wing sizing and buoyancy control, horizontal trim optimization on sidemount, emergency procedures specific to sidemount configuration, gas management with distributed cylinders
The centres listed above teach IANTD Sidemount Diver in United States. Requirements are set by the agency, not the centre, so they are the same wherever you train — what differs is price, class size and how much diving is included.
5 dive centres on TecDiveTools teach IANTD Sidemount Diver in the United States: North Florida Cave Country (4) and Florida West Coast (Tampa Bay) (1). Each is listed above.
Deep training usually means offshore wrecks — the Spiegel Grove and Bibb at around 40 m off Key Largo, and the USS Oriskany, whose flight deck at about 43 m and sand at about 65 m take you into trimix territory.