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TDI Cave Sidemount in Florida West Coast (Tampa Bay): 1 dive centre on TecDiveTools, with agencies, courses taught and a summary of what students say.
TecDiveTools lists 1 dive centre teaching TDI Cave Sidemount in Florida West Coast (Tampa Bay), United States.
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). 1 of these 1 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, 1 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
ERROR: Course not found in official TDI Part 2 diver or Part 3 instructor standards documents. While 'Cave Sidemount' is referenced in instructor profiles and equivalency charts, there is no published course standard with this exact name. This may refer to an advanced specialization combining Cave and Sidemount training, or an instructor-specific program taught outside the formal standards. Verify with TDI directly.
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The centres listed above teach TDI TDI Cave Sidemount in Florida West Coast (Tampa Bay), 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.
1 dive centre on TecDiveTools teach TDI Cave Sidemount in Florida West Coast (Tampa Bay), United States. Each is listed above.
Florida's springs are the other classic cave-training ground besides Mexico, and the conditions are the difference: strong outflow in many systems, water around 22°C (72°F) all year and sometimes tannic, lower visibility. You learn to manage flow, gas and line in harder conditions, and divers who train here often find Mexican caves easy by comparison.
At the same tier in TecDiveTools' cross-agency comparison, dive centres in Florida West Coast (Tampa Bay), United States also teach IANTD Adv. Cave - Sidemount Diver (1). They are comparable rather than interchangeable — each agency sets its own standards and card, so check which one your next course accepts.