divemonkey33
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Hmmm,
I have been trying to understand sidemounting before I get serious about trying it. But there is something I do not understand about it. Which is it appears that you have two tanks and two regs. Ok simple enough, but lets say you use up all the air in one bottle and go to the next by switching regs. Then at some point now your buddy needs to share air, but now all you have is a reg attached to an empty tank which may not have enough air to get back to the surface safely. I would guess that you would want to leave enough air in the tank for such a case but if you have to reserve half a tank for an emergency then what is the point. Am I missing something? Or is there a sidemount system that has a hose for a manifold? Or maybe I'm onto something here?
I have been trying to understand sidemounting before I get serious about trying it. But there is something I do not understand about it. Which is it appears that you have two tanks and two regs. Ok simple enough, but lets say you use up all the air in one bottle and go to the next by switching regs. Then at some point now your buddy needs to share air, but now all you have is a reg attached to an empty tank which may not have enough air to get back to the surface safely. I would guess that you would want to leave enough air in the tank for such a case but if you have to reserve half a tank for an emergency then what is the point. Am I missing something? Or is there a sidemount system that has a hose for a manifold? Or maybe I'm onto something here?