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Private: Side Mount Open Water Diver
Welcome
Overview
Course Limitations
Why Side Mount?
History of Side Mount Diving
Why Diving Side Mount?
Is Diving Side Mount safer?
Equipment and Configuration
Equipment Configuration
Equipment
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Equipment
3 Topics
Tanks
Regulators
Other Equipment
Dive Planning
General Rules
The Rule of Thirds
Why the Rule of Thirds
Personal or Team Magic Number
Steps to calculate the Rule of Thirds
Examples
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Examples
5 Topics
Single Tank Side Mount Divers
Side Mount Diver
Two Side Mount Diver
Two Side Mount Diver + Round up
Side Mount Diver with a Back Mount Diver
Cheat Tables
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Cheat Tables
2 Topics
Cheat Table BAR
Cheat Table PSI
The Diving Essentials
Buoyancy Control
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Buoyancy Control
2 Topics
Overview
Breathing Cycles
Weight and Trim
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Weight and Trim
4 Topics
Overview
Balast Weight
Trim Weight
Positioning
Propulsion
Skills
Pre Dive Skills
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Pre Dive Skills
8 Topics
Setting up your side mount tanks – Left Tank
Setting up your side mount tanks – Right Tank
Setting up your side mount tanks – Computer
Dressing into the Razor System
Pre-Dive Wing Checks
On Land Buddy Check
Enter the Water
Enter the Water from a Boat
Essential Dive Skills
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Essential Dive Skills
14 Topics
In Water Buddy Check at the Surface
Descend & establish neutal Buoyancy
Perfect Trim and Weighting
Showing Numbers
Checking the Pressure Gauges
Switching Regulators with both Hands (Safe Regulator Switch)
Switching Regulators with one Hand
Use of your expandable Pouch
Change Mask
Use of your B Ring
Clipping Tanks from the rear to the front D Ring
Staging the right Side Mount Tank
Use of a Surface Marker Buoy (SMB)
Ascend & establish positive Buoyancy on the Surface
Propulsion Techniques
Sample Lesson
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Propulsion Techniques
7 Topics
Helicopter Turns
Modified Frog Kick
Modified Flutter Kick
Shuffle Kick
Back Kick
360° lateral Turns
360° vertical Turn
Self Rescue Skills
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Self Rescue Skills
8 Topics
Regulator Free Flow
Feathering a Free Flowing Regulator
Swim with a Free Flowing Regulator
Complete Valve shut down Drill
Tank clip failure
Side Mount Bungee Replacement
Broken LPI Hose – permanent Inflation
Use of BAT Wing and Backup Wing
Rescue Skills
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Rescue Skills
4 Topics
3 ways to deploy the long hose
Out of Air stationary / Ascend
Out of Air swimming
Restow the long hose
Post Dive Skills
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Post Dive Skills
1 Topic
Dressing out of the Razor System
REVIEWS
Reviews Theory
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Reviews Theory
4 Reviews
Review Why Side Mount
Review Equipment & Configuration
Review Dive Planning & Rule of Thirds
Review Diving Essentials
Reviews Skills
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Reviews Skills
5 Reviews
Review Pre Dive Skills
Review Essential Dive Skills
Review Propulsion Techniques
Review Self Rescue Skills
Review Rescue Skills
Final Exam – Side Mount Open Water Diver
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