cebudiver:
Stephen, I dive warm open water. Therefore my requirements differ from yours. However going over your setup I have a few questions.
1. Your long hose looks like its on your secondary reg and is clipped on your D Ring??
2. Your SPG is on your left Hip. I see this in a lot of setups but it seems to be that this would be better clipped to your left D Ring if you are not carrying stages.
3. Where is the best place to clip a Secondary Reg?
4. Where is the best place to clip a SPG if you dont carry stages?
Thanks.
I dive warm water a lot and eventually I'll put up a thread with pics of the rigs that I use for those dives. The basic configuration never changes, however. I just play with different combinations of plates, STAs, and a few other things so that I keep the majority of the required weight on my back and the weight on my belt to a minimum.
Hose configuration is like this...
The primary reg is on a 7 foot hose. Normally, it drops down the right side of the back and loops under the can light (or tucked in the right side of the waist belt when not using a can light) then up across the chest to the left shoulder, behind the neck and into the mouth from the right. When not in use it is clipped off to the right chest D-ring. When on deck, it is coiled it up and clipped it off...again, to the right D-ring. ( I have it stowed this way in my first pic on the cold water thread.)
The secondary reg... or backup reg... is on a 22" hose, routes over the right shoulder and is bungeed below the chin using 3/16" bungee and either tied around the mouthpiece of the reg or held in place under the mouthpiece zip tie.
The SPG is on a 24" hose and drops straight down the left side and is clipped off to the left waist D-ring.
The LPI hose is 22" and is attached to the corrugated hose by inner tube. The inflator is then held close to the chest with a loop of 1/8" bungee at the left chest D-ring.
Stainless steel bolt snaps are used to clip things off. The primary reg has a 3/8" snap, backup lights use either a 3/8" or 1/2" snap and the SPG uses a 3/4" or 1" snap depending on whether or not thick gloves are being worn. Snaps are tied to the gear using cave line...although sometimes I use an O-ring or a piece of inner tube.
The cannister light is on the right waist strap, pushed back against the plate and held in place by a single weight belt buckle. The backup lights are clipped off to the chest D-rings and held tight to the chest straps with two pieces of inner tube. Most of the time I don't bring these along.
The chest D-rings are a little below each clavicle. The left waist D-ring is in the mid axillary line and the waist belt buckle is just to the right of center. The knife is a simple short blade... 3" or so... and is in a sheath just to the left of the crotch strap which is itself just left of the waist belt buckle and centered in the mid-line. The crotch strap is not tight at all and just barely, if at all, pulls at the waist belt. The crotch strap is made of a softer material than the rest of the harness...I like the Halcyon and Oxycheck straps...and typically has two D-rings, though for recreational diving, they are of little use.
cebudiver, does that help a little?
