Side Mount Aluminum 80s, setup with no weights?

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SentinelAce

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I have been diving with 2lbs at the bottom of my tanks. Someone told me the other day, there is a setup I can do without these. Using bungees, and it's how they dive in the UK (side mount) and the guy on side mounting.com. Anyone familiar with this setup? The butt ends go up obviously when gas is low.
 
add extra drings further in front on the waist straps of your harness. then progressively move them further forward as they empty so they are pulled down. or get sliding drings.
 
add extra drings further in front on the waist straps of your harness. then progressively move them further forward as they empty so they are pulled down. or get sliding drings.

is that a kit? how do you install sliding Drings that won't fall off? This does make sense. Pics?
 
I highly recommend Steve Martin's system you mentioned at sidemounting.com and he has a youtube channel as well.


Easy to stay trim after a little practice by sliding them forward as they become more buoyant. I have only used AL80s since I got sidemount certified through the sidemounting.com system in April.
 
I have been diving with 2lbs at the bottom of my tanks. Someone told me the other day, there is a setup I can do without these. Using bungees, and it's how they dive in the UK (side mount) and the guy on side mounting.com. Anyone familiar with this setup? The butt ends go up obviously when gas is low.

It's not something special for U.K. Sm divers or anyone else. It's a pretty standard way of diving al80s. If you have to put weights on your 80s you either had a crappy instructor or you taught yourself and didn't do your due diligence research. I would recommend finding a properly qualified sm instructor. What you're asking about is exceptionally basic. Not being a douche, but years ago it was kind of ok. Nowadays it makes you a joke among many sm divers.
 
... What you're asking about is exceptionally basic. Not trying to act like a douche, but years ago it was kind of ok. Nowadays it makes you a joke among many sm divers.

FTFY

some of us don't even have to try, it just comes naturally
 
Sometimes the truth is rough. If you’re putting weights on 80s you dont know what you’re doing. I’d even go as far as to say you shouldnt be diving sidemount
 
add extra drings further in front on the waist straps of your harness. then progressively move them further forward as they empty so they are pulled down. or get sliding drings.

I'm just curious - would it work for the Hollis SMS or Nomad? I have seen these only shortly in a shop. It seemed like the bottoms of the cylinders are ment to be clipped on some rail. I asked, how can a diver trim out the aluminum cylinders with this system? They answered that one should install weights on the bottoms or dive steels...
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/swift/

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