Sidemount Courses
From your first approach to full SDI/TDI certification. You learn the configuration, the philosophy and the techniques that transform the way you dive.
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SDI/TDI Instructor — Portofino
Sidemount. Portofino.
Cecilia Luconi — SDI/TDI Sidemount and SSI Cavern & Cenote Diving instructor in the Portofino Marine Reserve
Manifesto
Some dives you do. Others you feel.
When you enter a cavern on the Portofino promontory with your cylinders at your sides, your body in perfect trim and the light filtering through the rock, you realise diving isn’t only about going underwater. It’s about becoming part of the water.
Sidemount was born in overhead environments — caverns and siphons — where every centimetre counts. I brought it to the Mediterranean because every diver can discover what it means to move with total freedom, with buoyancy control you didn’t think possible and the safety of a fully redundant system.
This isn’t a dive centre. It’s a path. Yours.
What I do
Dives that change perspective
Advanced Dives
Caverns, siphons and deep walls of the Portofino Marine Reserve. Environments few people know, that deserve respect and preparation.
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Intro to Tech, Cavern Diver, Trimix. Structured pathways for those who want to go beyond recreational diving, with the safety and competence it takes.
Technical pathways
The Marine Reserve in numbers
Marine Protected Area
since 1999
Over 20 dive sites
to explore
Caverns and siphons
unique in the Mediterranean
Red coral
gorgonians, groupers, barracuda