RAZOR SIDEMOUNT CAVE DIVER
Razor Sidemount: training
for serious cave divers.
Control, redundancy, and focus.
The Razor Sidemount Cave Diver Course is a transformative experience that establishes the Razor system as a consistently reliable tool for cave diving. We’ll adjust harness fit, weighting, attachment points, and hose routing to create a clean, stable profile in overhead environments. In the unique and comfortable setting of Mexico’s cenotes, you’ll practice buoyancy and anti-silting techniques through amazing caves, haloclines, and restrictions. This ensures a streamlined position that protects you, your team, and the cave.
Our comprehensive course is designed to instill in you a set of practical skills that you can rely on in any cave diving situation. We focus on conservative gas planning, reel management, and precise use of line markers for jumps, gaps, and T-intersections. You’ll also learn to handle equipment failures (valves, lights, regulators, inflators, cylinder attachments), practice lost-line and zero-visibility exits, and refine team positioning for easy communication and complex navigation. These skills will prepare you for safe and successful cave dives in the Riviera Maya and beyond.
Prerequisites:
Required Certification:
- Basic Sidemount
- Combine with TDI Full Cave
Plus
- 18 Years Old
- 25 Logged Dives
Why the Razor Sidemount Cave Diver Course?
This course teaches how to use the Razor Sidemount system, making it a reliable and efficient choice for cave performance. Designed specifically for overhead environments, Razor’s minimalist design supports stable trim, redundancy, and a perfect trim profile, ensuring efficiency. We’ll strengthen your procedures, line work, gas planning, and contingencies, and sharpen team communication, making cave dives smoother, safer, and more controlled in Mexico’s cenotes and beyond.
Become a Stronger Diver
Our course is laser-focused on applying the Razor Sidemount to real overhead tasks, navigation choices, line work, gas and contingency planning, and coordinated team execution in Mexico’s cenotes. Its open-water versatility is a bonus; our goal here is dependable, repeatable cave performance.
All within a fun, professional, and safe setting. You’ll train through real-world simulations, on land and underwater, applying from day one everything you need to become a dependable and confident RAZOR Sidemount Cave Diver.
CHOOSE THE RAZOR SIDEMOUNT SYSTEM
AND TRANSFORM YOUR DIVING EXPERIENCE
What Skills
Will You Learn?
- Proper fitting and configuration of the Razor Side Mount System
- Equipment streamlining and attachment techniques
- Razor harness setup, BAT wing inflation, and T-weight system use
- Efficient tank setup and Bogaerthian regulator configuration
- Entry-level gas management and planning
- Valve management and gas volume awareness
- Propulsion techniques, including frog kick, helicopter turns, and back kick
- Horizontal trim control and hovering stability
- Removing and reattaching tanks underwater
- Basic problem-solving in open water scenarios
- Environmental awareness and conservation techniques
- Donning and doffing gear in water and on land
Technical Background
and Context of
Sidemount
- History of sidemount diving in Mexico and worldwide.
- Applications in cave and overhead environment diving.
- Emergency procedures and gas failure management.
- Psychological aspects of Sidemount in confined spaces.
- Safe team-based gas-sharing protocols.
Course Details

Duration:
Minimum 11 days, but we move at your pace. Take as much time as you need to feel confident.

Dives:
2 confined water sessions + 16 Overhead Dives

Format:
Theory sessions, dry land drills, confined water skills, and guided dives in Overhead Environments

Certification:
Razor Sidemount Cave Diver (GSM - Global Sidemount)
Training per day!
USD 325
- Transportation from Playa del Carmen
- Nitrox 32%
- Cenote entrance fees
- Water, lunch, and snacks
Razor Sidemount System
USD 889
Certification fee
USD 30
Certification fees are not included and must be paid separately once all performance requirements are met.
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