E035 - Steve Lewis on Improving Sidemount Diving & Instruction

Steve Lewis is an absolute industry veteran and a passionate sidemount, CCR and cave diver. He has been at the forefront of instructor training since the early 90s working with TDI right from its formation and more recently becoming the Director Diver Training for RAID.   Steve is an author, a member of the explorers club and as we'll learn, he led the early exploration of the Bell Island Mine in Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada.   In this episode Steve and I discuss his background, his experiences as an instructor trainer, we talk about diving the mine and shipwrecks at Bell Island. We discuss why we love sidemount diving and then the issues we see with sidemount diving and instruction and how these issues might be solved all this and much more in this episode of speaking sidemount.