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TDI Sidemount Instructor Trainer in worldwide: 52 dive centres on TecDiveTools, with agencies, courses taught and a summary of what students say. 19 publish course prices.
TecDiveTools lists 52 dive centres teaching TDI Sidemount Instructor Trainer worldwide. 19 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). 39 of these 52 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, 34 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 Instructor Trainer develops instructors capable of teaching the TDI Sidemount Diver course and sidemount-specific technical training. Candidates must demonstrate advanced sidemount skills, equipment rigging expertise, and the ability to train divers across all required drills and emergency procedures for side-mounted cylinder diving.
Instructors must demonstrate proficiency teaching: sidemount equipment configuration and rigging, independent valve gas management theory, emergency procedures (S-drills and variants), student rescue techniques, and all land and water drills required for TDI Sidemount Diver certification.
52 dive centres on TecDiveTools teach TDI Sidemount Instructor Trainer worldwide: Mexico (13), Philippines (11), Thailand (10), Egypt (9), Malta (5) and Indonesia (4). Each is listed above.
