ucfdiver
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Depends on the instructor and what they can teach. For NACD, you can teach full cave in sidemount only if you've been checked off to teach the sidemount specialty. There's plenty of instructors who are allowed to teach courses in sidemount. Hopefully none would teach in mixed teams, but this wouldn't surprise me.One "has" to be back-mount to do Advanced Nitrox, Deco, and cave? Is this truly a requirment?
How can an agency require that? Or is it just something "expected?
If someone has the source, I would love to know how the "back-mount" became a requirement. I could understand a preferred configuration, but not as a requirement.