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Side Mounting

Hoover, Pierce (1999) " Tanks on the Side," Sport Diver, vol. 7, no. 5, October,
While diving, especially in caverns, divers encounter very narrow horizontal openings which they must pass in order to continue in the cave system. Unhooking the tank from the B.C. and pushing it a head of you is not always the safest way to go through an opening where you don't quite fit. There is a new system that allows divers to
carry tanks with them and not effect their hand availability or their vertical size. This method is called . places the diver's tanks at the side of the body and under the arms, thus reducing the diver's front-to-back profile to less than a foot
for most divers. British sump ...

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came when Americans began using side-mounted tanks to squeeze into low or narrow underwater cave passages too confined for traditional double-tank rigs. Now, a new system promises to bring into the mainstream of diving technology.
Dive Rite, a huge manufacturer of diving equipment, has developed a method of attaching tanks to the side of their popular TransPac. This is making diving easier for many cave divers, such as those with back problems. This article outlines one diver, Jim Fishback, who has back problems and cannot where double tanks. allows
Jim to carry the tanks easier to the site and just attach them in the water to the side of his B.C. It also is easier for boat divers who have to get in the water with the tanks on their backs. With the side mount these divers can get in the water, and hand the tanks down to
one another.
Divers go by the rule of thirds: Always reserve a third of your air in your tank or your available breathing air for self buddy ...

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