Article: The Ultimate Guide to Sidemount Cylinder Trim

[DevonDiver]

Here's an illustrated article that I wrote to help sidemount divers struggling with cylinder trim issues. I hope it can benefit some people.

Any comments and feedback for discussion would be good... or anyone with some better illustrative examples/photos, please do let me know.

Ultimate Guide to Sidemount Cylinder Trim

 

[djcheburashka]

This is very helpful!

 

[tomfcrist]

Solid article Andy.

You should write one concerning how easy it is to sidemount deco and bailout bottles too.

 

[Schwob]

Thank you Andy!

 

[runsongas]

may want to consider blurring some faces on the really bad examples, like how they blur the faces in medical textbooks of patients

 

[DevonDiver]

may want to consider blurring some faces on the really bad examples, like how they blur the faces in medical textbooks of patients

Yeah, I might get around to that.

As it is, most of these pics came from advertisements and/or dive center pages.. so somebody, somewhere, must have been proud of them.

The pics are posted under the premise of 'Fair Use' for education and public benefit only. I'm allowing some opportunity for the owners to contact me and request attribution, as is proper.

Bad diving skills aren't covered under the same auspices as medical confidentiality is.

What I don't intend, is for the article to empower any sort of blame or ridicule. The aim is to educate via example and illustration.

 

[runsongas]

i was just suggesting it more as a courtesy to not try and embarrass anybody

 

[Patoux01]

Bad diving skills aren't covered under the same auspices as medical confidentiality is.

You'd be amazed. I've had someone pull the copyright card on me for putting a video of the guy harassing wildlife on youtube. Didn't want to go too far on it, so I just uploaded it somewhere else afterwards.


I'm going to suggest a "technical" thing about your articles, maybe that way I'll finally be able to read one 'till the end...The fact that usually half the text, if not more, seems to be some kind of picture refering to another page ( Andy Davis | Sidemount Technical Wreck Diving Instructor | Philippines ) means we can't "blue" the text using a mouse-click when we're reading. I've tried both chrome and firefox, neither work. So if you could change that...
I don't think I'm the only one reading like this, as it allows me to switch tabs and come back later where I had left.

 

[Marie13]

Saved for next season.

 

[DevonDiver]

...The fact that usually half the text, if not more, seems to be some kind of picture refering to another page ( Andy Davis | Sidemount Technical Wreck Diving Instructor | Philippines ) means we can't "blue" the text using a mouse-click when we're reading.

Thanks for the feedback. I don't quite understand what you're describing.

I'm checking with Chrome (61.0.3163.100 latest) and not seeing any glitches.

Left-click is disabled to deter content thieves doing cut-and-paste onto other blogs.