sidemount for deep diving?

[Tortuga68]

Sidemount question from a non-SM diver:

Where do you sling your deco bottle/s?

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Where do you sling deco bottles if your tanks were on your back? We can do it the same place or over the primary tanks - whatever.

 

[Tortuga68]

Thanks, but my question was were DO you sling them not where could you

 

[ucfdiver]

Thanks, but my question was were DO you sling them not where could you

They can carry the tanks on top of their sidemount tanks or below them.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

I think he's trying to communicate... but I'm not sure.

 

[elan]

Do you SM guys use the space on the back somehow ?

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Sometimes

 

[Rick Murchison]

Do you SM guys use the space on the back somehow ?

When I sidemount it is because I can't get where I want to go without flattening my profile (no diet jokes, please )... IOW, putting anything on my back would defeat the reason for going sidemount in the first place, so, for me at least, the answer is "no."

Rick

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Sometimes, the restriction is a few stages back

 

[Dive-aholic]

When I sidemount it is because I can't get where I want to go without flattening my profile (no diet jokes, please )... IOW, putting anything on my back would defeat the reason for going sidemount in the first place, so, for me at least, the answer is "no."

Rick

Not always true. I just did a dive this week in a river cave that has a section that cannot be passed by BM divers. I had 2 stages, both behind my SM tanks. It's a much lower profile than BM without stages. While this won't work in all SM passages, it will work in many.