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I have a couple years sidemount under my belt but not a lot of dives. I have had my cavern course and my next goal is to start extended range. COVID-19 aint helping any.
When I go diving with most of my old dive buddies, they are still single tank back mounters. I like to dive with them, however keep getting sidemount experience. Does anyone else do this?
Dives with them are either shore or boat, and they are using AL80 singles. My current practice mentality is I take my 2 AL80's as sidemount and just use roughly the same amount of air they do. On our second dive, they get a new tank and I just keep everything exactly as I had it (same 2 tanks). So I have about 3k when I hit the water on the second dive like them (usually more) and follow my normal minimums on each tank.
I could easily just dust off my backmount BCD and Reg set which I do keep maintained. I feel I am getting more experience this way as currently I have more recreational backmount friends than sidemount.
Anyone else doing this? My logic flawed?
Just curious.
When I go diving with most of my old dive buddies, they are still single tank back mounters. I like to dive with them, however keep getting sidemount experience. Does anyone else do this?
Dives with them are either shore or boat, and they are using AL80 singles. My current practice mentality is I take my 2 AL80's as sidemount and just use roughly the same amount of air they do. On our second dive, they get a new tank and I just keep everything exactly as I had it (same 2 tanks). So I have about 3k when I hit the water on the second dive like them (usually more) and follow my normal minimums on each tank.
I could easily just dust off my backmount BCD and Reg set which I do keep maintained. I feel I am getting more experience this way as currently I have more recreational backmount friends than sidemount.
Anyone else doing this? My logic flawed?
Just curious.