Pompano · Miami · Key Largo

Craft your diving

Either as a novice or expert, learn sidemount diving here in Miami. Grasp the stability and control of cave divers without leaving South Florida. While specializing in sidemount, we can teach in any configuration.

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Eric Taylor in a red drysuit and sidemount harness

About Eric

Full-time as an ICU nurse, I bring decades of error-mitigation research into my nursing and diving practice. Safety science is necessary in the deep diving and cave diving that I am passionate about, but it also improves recreational diving safety.

Your training is personalized to your needs and timeline with equal focus on the class-specific skills and overarching safe-diving practices.

Underwater, I focus on details of stability, but above water, I teach effective communication, detailed dive planning, and quality debriefing.

To maintain this high quality of education, I specialize in a limited number of courses, namely Sidemount, and maintain small class sizes.

Sidemount

Sidemount lends itself to stability naturally, but we will fine-tune your kit and skills so that you are unwavering in the water. Sidemount is inherently redundant, with the use of two independent tanks, making it much more unlikely to run out of air on a dive, but it is also scalable, meaning you can bring one, two, three, or more tanks on a dive using the same gear. This flexibility not only enhances your diving experience but also sets you up for future technical courses if you decide to take your skills further.

Quality training separates the comfortable and competent Sidemount diver from the self-taught "experts" boat captains ban.

Pay for training, not cards. Learn from experts.

Shore dives · Scooter dives · Deep ocean dives · Shallow reef dives · Decompression dives · Single-tank dives · Multi-stage cave dives · Any dive

Dive Sidemount

A sidemount diver gliding over the sand in clear blue water

Eric Scuba specialties

Intro to Diving · Sidemount · Art of Stability · Deep Diver · DPV Diver · Intro to Tec · Rescue Diver · Advanced Diver

Art of Stability

$375 / 1 day

Master
Buoyancy, trim and situational safety, a full day in the lake

DPV Diver

$575 / 1 day

Pilot
A scooter around the reef on a two-tank boat dive

Deep Diver

$575 / 2 days

Go to
130 ft, and come back up safely

Intro to Diving

$400 and up

See
The reef for a day, or certify for a lifetime

Classes

See the reefs for one day or certify for a lifetime. Your training is personalized to your needs and timeline; pick a class to see its plan and book your days.

Intro to Diving · Sidemount · Art of Stability · Deep Diver · DPV Diver · Intro to Tec · Rescue Diver · Advanced Diver

What will it cost?

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Certification is not guaranteed in a course's timeline, but if you need more training, further tuition is free.

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Medical

A doctor's signature on the medical is likely necessary.

Liability release

Agreement to all parts of the liability release is necessary to participate.

Your SDI account

Make an SDI account: I assign your e-learning there after you register.

Also taught

Nitrox can be completed alongside Deep Diver for a discount.

Return to the good'ol age of diving

Join us in local clubs: OutSCUBA, Florida Blue Divers, Instagram and Narq'd SCUBA. Text, call or email about a class, a group or a day of diving.

Call 804-380-8717

Where we dive

Miami · Key Largo · Pompano
Miami, FL 33131

Meeting points (pool, lake, dive shop or boat) are confirmed when you book.

By appointment: courses fit your schedule