I’m up for Manatee, never been there. My instructor for sidemount is Robert (Bob) Henn out of Sunshine Scuba. He’s currently doing an internship for his cave instructor card. I’ll be doing cave with him and Reggie Ross (since Bob is interning). I believe it will be through NSS-CDS, although Reggie’s website clearly says NASE.
I need to get at least 25 dives in the sidemount rig prior to starting cave1. Then it’s
Cave1&2 (4 days)
Cave3 (2 days)
Tec45 (2 days)
Cave4 aka "full cave" (2 days)
I believe Tec45 does not include Trimix. I think if I proceed into trimix, I would probably also do rebreather to save on helium. Both are likely in my future, but I doubt I will do either in 2014.
Still have gear to get for the caves, which I’ll acquire while doing my side mount dives.