Essentials of Side Mount

Side Mount diving is becoming wildly popular among recreational open water divers, advanced technical divers, cave divers and wreck divers alike because it offers the best of all worlds...the advantages of side mount diving including a stable, streamlined platform to dive from, coupled with the ease of movement, mobility and lack of tanks on your back that free diving offers. The UTD Z-System offers a UTD/DIR-compatible equipment configuration, so that all levels of divers have consistency in team diving and gear.

For certified divers the path to training for side mount diving is to cross over at your current level by taking a class that suits your needs. We offer an Essentials of Recreational Side Mount (single tank), Essentials of Technical Side Mount (double tank), and Essentials of Overhead Side Mount (double tank). These workshop-style, personal skills classes prepare you to dive side mount at you current level of training and experience. Then after some experience using the side mount z-system at your current level of training you can continue your training to the next level, whether it be Rec 2/3, or Tech/Trimix or Cave/Wreck.