Do you dive Side-Mount or Side Slung??
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JamesK
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It's an actual PADI photo.
MSargeant
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Like Devon said, should have asked which bungees you are referring to. I use a continuous bungee (8mm thick) and when looping the bungee around the valve shoulder i just run it straight under the SPG hose. All i need to do is feel the back of the cylinder and pull the gauge around. I can't get any pics till Wednesday but i will try.
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That's pretty damn sad ... but let's not pick on PADI ... I regularly have to explain to my students that pictures and videos in some of the NAUI materials don't represent the way I want to see them equip themselves or conduct their diving (dangling consoles, poor trim, bicycle kicking, people settling on their knees before adjusting gear, etc).
You would think that a dive agency would know better ... but then, there's always this classic ... from "Dive Training" magazine ...
... it's an uphill struggle getting folks past the images the so-called "experts" put out there sometimes ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
We are talking tanks and spgs on the tank here, so tank neck bungies. Not anything on the 2nd stage.
Its not possible to unclip the tank neck bungie from the chest dring when the BC is worn. It would flop around behind your back and be inaccessible. If you are familiar with the Armadillo manual you'll understand the "keeper clip" concept explained and illustrated. Figure 2, Page 2 and also described in detail on page 8 here:
http://www.golemgear.com/images/document/Armadillomanual.pdf
Notice that the ventral side of the bungie is, at most, even with the front of the armpit. This put the tank far further behind the armpit than a continuous bungie.
This type of neck bungie drops over the tank valve once the cylinders are hanging on their neck clips from your shoulders. My valve knobs happen to be oriented out, but people obviously clock the tanks differently. In any case, SPGs routed down the tank would end up trapped between the armpit on the medial side and the bungie loop on the lateral side. Unless they were pushed out laterally before the neck bungie was dropped over the valve.
So most everyone I know lollipops their gauges out front, as shown in the Brian Kakuk video posted earlier.
MSargeant
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http://www.sidemountscubadiving.com/Portals/0/LiveContent/476/Images/Bungee (looping valve).JPG
I run my bungee like that but when routing the bungee, i can comfortably slip the bungee under the SPG hose. (One piece continuous)
I run my bungee like that but when routing the bungee, i can comfortably slip the bungee under the SPG hose. (One piece continuous)
Hello,
i didn't see the pics but personally I have used the "pillow" since it was out as a replacement to my camel bag. It is nice and provide enough lift for me with 2 s80 and 2 s40 down to 70m.
As to find one in the Philippines, you can see one in Aquaventure used by a local DM lady; she also dives a homemade harness
Jale
DaleC
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Doesn't that rotate the tank outward? If so, how do you counter act it.
MSargeant
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Face your cylinder valve away from you, and draw a line out from the rear of the face of the valve towards you, and a line out from the shoulder (in your head), thats 90 degrees right? fit the lower attachment bolt snap at a 45 degree angle (inbetween the 2) at your desired length down the cylinder, but attach it next to the jubilee clip (no cord) the bolt snap prevents the rotation.
billgraham
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Back the the original post, the real problem is, what are you going to learn in a two day, open water sidemount class? I just don't see the utility of it, other than as a platform to sell gear.
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