What Will You Learn?

If you are not a certified Tec Sidemount Diver, then your Tec Sidemount Instructor course will include the entire Tec Sidemount Diver Course. You will not only get to practice all the skills, but will also get the chance to present knowledge development, confined water and open water teaching segments. Your Tec Sidemount Instructor Trainer will make sure you’re ready to teach the course and also provide ideas for organizing and marketing your tec sidemount courses.

Prerequisites

To enroll in a Tec Sidemount Instructor course, you must:

• Be a renewed PADI Instructor
• Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver
• Have completed a PADI Enriched Air Instructor Course
• Have completed a PADI Deep Specialty Instructor Course
• Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, with at least 20 enriched air dives, 25 dives deeper than 18 meters/60 feet and 15 dives deeper than 30 meters/100 feet
• Be a Tec 45 Diver

Prior to sending in your Tec Sidemount Instructor application, you must also:

• Be a PADI Tec Instructor or higher rating
• Be a PADI Tec Sidemount Diver
• Have logged at least 20 technical sidemount dives including 10 with three or more cylinders

Note: that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply, ask your Tec Sidemount Instructor Trainer.

Next Step

If your excited to go further in the world of Tec consider becoming a PADI Tec CCR 40 Instructor, the first course in teaching Closed Circuit Rebreather.

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