The PADI Sidemount Diver specialty in Alor teaches you to dive with cylinders mounted at your sides rather than on your back, which improves balance, trim and gas redundancy. It is a good fit for Alor's walls and currents, where a streamlined configuration and twin-tank reliability give you confidence on the archipelago's more demanding sites.
The PADI Sidemount Diver specialty counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating and gives you the option to dive with one or two cylinders in a balanced, redundant configuration. It is popular with divers progressing toward technical diving.
Sidemount training begins in Alor's calm, sheltered shallows for configuration work, then moves to local reefs and walls where the streamlined setup and gas redundancy prove their worth in the archipelago's currents during the April-to-November season.
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