Recently seeing several divers in side mount rigs and reading all the threads, I think I will pass on side mount myself but------. One of the things that turns people off potentially, including me is all the rigging and all the bits and pieces. Instead of all the rigging, which needs to be removed each time you swap tanks and then reinstalled and adjusted, what if there was a metal rod or plate, something like a STA, which held two standard cam straps. The plate or in this case the SMA (side mount adapter) would have the needed hardware and rigging (semi)permanently attached. So now, instead of swapping individual pieces to a fresh tank, you simply release the cam bands, as on a standard scuba rig, and install the fresh tank(s) and away you go. You would not even need to break the SMA from the harness and BC. Again, the SMA would be similar to a STA but longer such that it could present the clips and loops at the correct positions for clipping into the side mount harness.
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