Steel tanks, on the surface, with loop bungees

[RainPilot]

I unclip once I'm in the water usually. The double ender is just to give me a hard connection for walking around on the boat etc and back rolling in.

I drop with bungee on and clipped to ring so just remove double ender when I'm stable.

 

[RainPilot]

Like so. No special need I just happened to have some. Paracord etc will work just as well.

 

[stuartv]

Like so. No special need I just happened to have some. Paracord etc will work just as well.

Cool. New subject: Are those Claymore mines on the floor in front of your tanks? LOL

 

[RainPilot]

I wish. It's Divelink comm boxes I'm restoring. They haven't been used in a while so I'm conditioning the batteries.

They go with these:

Closer view

Oh and to keep sort of On topic, we dive these KM48 FFM in sidemount. With donatable gas.

 

[decompression]

This is the more Traditional use of chokers but they can certainly be used other ways.

 

[decompression]

Here's some more fuel for the fire......

Upper Tank mounting points: Bungees and/or chokers

 

[kensuf]

I'm not a fan of leaving chokers / etc with clips on tank necks. I view those as a potential entanglement hazard.

However, I do prussik a loop of paracord around the neck of every sidemount bottle I own. Added bonus is if I have a failure in the attachment point (I use loop bungees, I have had one break), I can use a double-ender to temporarily fix the bottle (and limp home).
I'm wrapping up a CCR course this evening, but I'll try to get a photo up for y'all tomorrow.

 

[stretchthepenn]

I unclip once I'm in the water usually. The double ender is just to give me a hard connection for walking around on the boat etc and back rolling in.

I drop with bungee on and clipped to ring so just remove double ender when I'm stable.

Why unclip? My SM trainer taught me to leave the neck leashes clipped in, and IMO, it makes more sense.

I can see three distinct benefits. Staying clipped in

• keeps the leash and boltsnap under control -- If a leash is unclipped, it'll flop around.
• prevents nasty surprises from loose tanks -- If a bungee slips or fails, the tank won't suddenly drop and dangle neck-down from the rail.
• reduces the number of tasks to complete -- If I don't unclip at the dive's start, I don't have to reclip at the dive's end.

 

[RainPilot]

Why unclip? My SM trainer taught me to leave the neck leashes clipped in, and IMO, it makes more sense.

I can see three distinct benefits. Staying clipped in

• keeps the leash and boltsnap under control -- If a leash is unclipped, it'll flop around.
• prevents nasty surprises from loose tanks -- If a bungee slips or fails, the tank won't suddenly drop and dangle neck-down from the rail.
• reduces the number of tasks to complete -- If I don't unclip at the dive's start, I don't have to reclip at the dive's end.

All good reasons. However, as I said, I use double enders with a paracord loop so no leash to control once I remove the snap. I also hand up the tanks after the dive so I need to unclip anyway.

I also find that it feels less cluttered for me on the chest D rings during the dive. I dive 2 medium hoses, left and right hand second stages. That means two regs bolt snapped so the less unnecessary snaps I have up there during the dive the better.

YMM of course V.

 

[stuartv]

All good reasons. However, as I said, I use double enders with a paracord loop so no leash to control once I remove the snap. I also hand up the tanks after the dive so I need to unclip anyway.

I don't understand how you're doing it. Once you remove the double ender, where does the paracord loop go?