Why take the Advanced Cave Sidemount / No-mount course?
The IANTD/IDF Advanced Cave Sidemount / No-mount course helps experienced Technical Cave divers become familiar with sidemount equipment configuration in restrictive cave passages. A sidemount configuration lets divers experience, enjoy, and explore areas too small for standard backmount and sidemount configurations.
This class helps divers to develop a specific skill set and knowledge base to safely plan and execute dives in small and/or restrictive passages.
Who is it for?
Divers planning to take the IANTD/IDF Advanced Cave Sidemount / No-mount class are expected to have a high level of fundamentals and cave diving skills, a high comfort level in an overhead environment, and a reasonable amount of cave diving experience.
What will I learn?
The course aims to help divers understand the techniques needed to safely navigate confined cave passageways and the advantages and disadvantages of a sidemount equipment configuration, including no-mount mode.
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Applicants must:
- Be qualified in IANTD/TDI Technical Cave Diver or equivalent;
- Be a minimum of 18 years of age;
- Be physically and mentally fit;
- Obtain a physician’s prior written authorization for the use of prescription drugs, except for birth control, or for any medical condition that may pose a risk while diving;
- Have a minimum of 50 logged cave dives.
The IANTD/IDF Advanced Cave Sidemount / No-Mount Course is usually conducted over three days. It requires at least three cave dives, 180 minutes of in-water work, and instruction that includes classroom lectures and land drills.
Transfer from Playa del Carmen is included.
Students must bring their own cave-level diving gear in sidemount configuration (requirements will be provided upon registration) or borrow/rent it, pay for their gases and tank rentals, cenote entree and agency certification fees is not included
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OK GUYS, I GONNA BE YOUR CAVE INSTRUCTOR
Alexander Vronsky
Founder, Cave Ha Diving Mexico
IANTD and IDF Instructor Trainer. IDF Course Director.
Cave and technical instructor trainer: Cavern to Technical Cave, Technical to Master Deep.
CCR instructor: Dual CCR and Dual CCR Cave, GBM CCR (Nitrox to Trimix 100), S7 CCR (Nitrox to Helitrox), CCR Cave, CCR Technical Cave, and CCR Expedition Cave on GBM, S7, SF2, JJ, and Fathom.
Authorized dealer for S7 and GBM rebreathers. TDI technical instructor.
GUE member. GUE Cave 2, Cave DPV, Cave CCR, CCR 2, Tec 3
Elected representative of CREER (Comité Regional de Espeleobuceo, Ecología y Regulación), the regional cave diving committee of Quintana Roo.
Alexander lives and teaches year-round in Playa del Carmen, in the Riviera Maya, home to nine of the ten largest underwater cave systems in the world. He trained every cave and technical instructor on the Cave Ha team.
Before dedicating himself to diving, Alexander spent many years running large-scale technical and broadcast operations, including for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. That background is why the logistics behind every course here simply work.
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