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Diving in sidemount configuration Sidemount configuration offers a more streamlined profile for scuba diving. Kwok demonstrates in Sun Yat-Sen University's diving pool in Guangzhou.	Sidemount training Like most scuba training involving new equipment, you start in a swimming pool. This session took place in Guangzhou.
Sidemount dive training Sidemount training in Guangzhou. Or, just having fun... Adjusting the trim and balance is easier with sidemount, and allows you to move freely in any direction.	Sidemount Course in Guangzhou If you wear two cylinders, they can be smaller than what you normally use.
Sidemount Course With sidemount, you usually gear up in the water: no need to carry the tanks on your back to the water's edge.	Taking a photo of a whale shark. Kwok snapping a photo of a whale shark in Moal Boal.
Streamlined Many divers choose to wear two cylinders for sidemount diving for redundant air source and more stable balance.	Tank handling Smaller cylinders are easy to handle.

Overhead diving with sidemount Sidemount diving originated from the needs of cave diving.	Cave diving with sidemount Sidemount configuration allows squeezing through tight spaces.
Access to valves Since the tank valves are right in front of you, it is easy to turn the valves on and off, should you need to. You don't need to take the tanks off to do this.
Three scuba configurations Comparing different configurations for technical diving: twin set, sidemount, rebreather.	Sidemount in open water You don't necessarily need to dive pushing the tanks, but you can if you want to...
Hovering with sidemount Streamlining with sidemount - less drag, easier to dive. You can hardly see the tanks when looking from the front.	Certified Sidemount Diver Sidemount courses require some pool training and a couple of open water dives for the certification.

	Cave diving in Mexico Sidemount is popular choice in caves in the cenotes of Mexico.
Sidemount in caves	Sidemount diver from below A diver in sidemount configuration seen from below. Photo taken in Moal Boal, Philippines.

Sidemount diving is gaining popularity fast. Strapping the tanks on your side instead of your back allows you more streamlining options, easier gearing up since you usually do that in the water, and allows you to move the tanks around freely. If you dive with two cylinders, you also have two independent air - or gas - sources for redundancy.

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Photos - Sidemount Diving

Diving in sidemount configuration

Sidemount configuration offers a more streamlined profile for scuba diving. Kwok demonstrates in Sun Yat-Sen University's diving pool in Guangzhou.

Sidemount training

Like most scuba training involving new equipment, you start in a swimming pool. This session took place in Guangzhou.

Sidemount dive training

Sidemount training in Guangzhou. Or, just having fun... Adjusting the trim and balance is easier with sidemount, and allows you to move freely in any direction.

Sidemount Course in Guangzhou

If you wear two cylinders, they can be smaller than what you normally use.

Sidemount Course

With sidemount, you usually gear up in the water: no need to carry the tanks on your back to the water's edge.

Taking a photo of a whale shark.

Kwok snapping a photo of a whale shark in Moal Boal.

Streamlined

Many divers choose to wear two cylinders for sidemount diving for redundant air source and more stable balance.

Tank handling

Smaller cylinders are easy to handle.

Overhead diving with sidemount

Sidemount diving originated from the needs of cave diving.

Cave diving with sidemount

Sidemount configuration allows squeezing through tight spaces.

Access to valves

Since the tank valves are right in front of you, it is easy to turn the valves on and off, should you need to. You don't need to take the tanks off to do this.

Three scuba configurations

Comparing different configurations for technical diving: twin set, sidemount, rebreather.

Sidemount in open water

You don't necessarily need to dive pushing the tanks, but you can if you want to...

Hovering with sidemount

Streamlining with sidemount - less drag, easier to dive. You can hardly see the tanks when looking from the front.

Certified Sidemount Diver

Sidemount courses require some pool training and a couple of open water dives for the certification.

Cave diving in Mexico

Sidemount is popular choice in caves in the cenotes of Mexico.

Sidemount in caves

Sidemount diver from below

A diver in sidemount configuration seen from below. Photo taken in Moal Boal, Philippines.

Sidemount Diving Photos

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