Angie S
Guest
There aren't hard-fast rules about this, right? We did our certification with a local SSI shop a few months ago, and their configurations have the octopus ("safe second") on the left, primary on the right. It was kinda funny when we went to Florida for our checkout dives -- we did a universal referral to a PADI shop, and the first day when we were setting up the gear, I was having a hard time figuring out how to do it. Finally, the instructor assistant looked at me and said "those [regs] go on the right" -- she may has well have said "DUH!!" lol - I just didn't know b/c I hadn't experienced anything besides the way my home LDS does things. Live and learn. Folks do things differently. Before diving with any buddy, I'll look to see what side their octopus is on. No big whoop, right??