E034 - Marissa Eckert & James Draker on Sidemount Cave Diving

E034 - Marissa Eckert & James Draker on Sidemount Cave Diving

Marissa Eckert and James Draker are the owners of Hidden Worlds, Fort White Florida and extraordinary sidemount/cave divers and instructors. In this episode, they share their passion for cave diving and instructing and their love of dive travel.

We talk about their backgrounds, philosophies around teaching sidemount and cave diving, why it is important to streamline stages, deco cylinders and bailout, and about their recent dive travel to Abaco in the Bahamas, Mexico, Little Cayman and Orda Cave in Russia... plus we talk sidemount rebreathers and much more...

Featured:

Hidden Worlds - https://www.dive-caves.com/

Sidemount Fundamentals eBook - https://www.sidemountpros.com/store

Truk 2020 - https://www.sidemountpros.com/calendar

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