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TDI Advanced Cave Sidemount in worldwide: 6 dive centres on TecDiveTools, with agencies, courses taught and a summary of what students say. 4 publish course prices.
TecDiveTools lists 6 dive centres teaching TDI Advanced Cave Sidemount worldwide. 4 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). 5 of these 6 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, 5 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
This course teaches advanced cave diving using sidemount configuration for complex guide line management and extended penetrations. Combines sidemount equipment efficiency with advanced overhead cave navigation. Requires full cave and sidemount prerequisites before enrollment.
Advanced cave sidemount diving skills including complex guide line work, extended penetrations, and sidemount-specific cave procedures. Proficiency in sidemount trim and buoyancy in overhead environments required.
6 dive centres on TecDiveTools teach TDI Advanced Cave Sidemount worldwide. Each is listed above.
Every centre in the TecDiveTools directory that publishes a price for TDI Advanced Cave Sidemount worldwide charges by the day rather than for the whole course. Prices differ mainly in what they include, so compare the inclusions before comparing the numbers. Prices were last checked in September 2026.
5 days, based on the durations 1 centre publishes for it worldwide. The time depends on the centre's schedule, weather, and how quickly the required skills are demonstrated — agencies set a minimum number of dives, not a fixed number of days.
At the same tier in TecDiveTools' cross-agency comparison, dive centres worldwide also teach IANTD Adv. Cave - No Mount Diver (22) and NSS-CDS Advanced 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.