DevonDiver
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Can you explain this in more detail? I start my SM next month, but my configuration will have my long hose on the right, short (not as short as my BM) hose on the left on in a necklace like my BM.
I dive sidemount for wrecks and have completed the PADI (tec) and ANDI courses (to instructor level). Both courses taught long hose configuration (left tank). Air-sharing is as easy, if not more so, than with back-mount. I'm not sure what the problem is. I found that the muscle-memory transference with air-sharing was very straight-forward and instinctive.
There are issues with hose trapping, as there would be with back-mount + stages. For that reason, an S-Drill is preferable on each descent. Good instructors will teach that anyways... back or side mount..