People with bad manners on land won’t change when they get in the water, side mount is not as handy as back mount, if you can handle the weight of a twinset then back mount is the simplest way to do it.
Question Agency vs instructor selection (Netherlands)
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No one who "walks around with 2 12ltr" is in his right mind, they should be in the water not walking around. I don't know of anyone walking around with 2 12 ltr tanks in SM or BM. You put your tanks on and hop into the water. When SM diving from shore, you take the tanks to the water's edge one by one and then get into the water and pull the tanks until in the proper depth to put them on properly. It is much easier to do that than 2 tanks on your back in BM configuration. Try walking about with doubles on your back walking in sand until you get into the water deep enough to stand and put your fins one there.
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Cheizz
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Guys, you're re-doing this discussion >>> Question - Sidemount or backmount doubles?
I put my fins on in shallow water and clip top of both tanks. Move into deeper water (that I can still stand up in) to finish everything up.
Who is bound by the standards and training procedures of the agency. Nothing is created from vacuum. If you were right, then every instructor trainer can just issue their own c-cards and everyone is happy.
barth
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What kind of dives do you want to do ?
At your local diveclub there are no sidemount divers. That means no training buddy's and I guess no buddy's for challenging dives.
In the Netherlands there are no sites which require sidemount. Most chalanging divesites require backmount (Northsea and Eastern Scheldt).
It is very easy to find a good backmount instructor in the Netherlands. But I don't know a good sidemount instructor in the Netherland. There might be good sidemount instructors in the Netherlands.
It's not the gear which is the most important to do challenging/tech/cave dives. But it would be the network of buddy's which is more important.
With backmount and gue fundamentals it would be easy to join other groups of divers, join projects, do training dives and do tech/cave trips.
It would be also possible with sidemount and another agency. But it would be much harder. Why would you chose that route ?
I do understand you would choose that route because you already know an instructor and buddy's, but otherwise I wouldn't consider that route.
At your local diveclub there are no sidemount divers. That means no training buddy's and I guess no buddy's for challenging dives.
In the Netherlands there are no sites which require sidemount. Most chalanging divesites require backmount (Northsea and Eastern Scheldt).
It is very easy to find a good backmount instructor in the Netherlands. But I don't know a good sidemount instructor in the Netherland. There might be good sidemount instructors in the Netherlands.
It's not the gear which is the most important to do challenging/tech/cave dives. But it would be the network of buddy's which is more important.
With backmount and gue fundamentals it would be easy to join other groups of divers, join projects, do training dives and do tech/cave trips.
It would be also possible with sidemount and another agency. But it would be much harder. Why would you chose that route ?
I do understand you would choose that route because you already know an instructor and buddy's, but otherwise I wouldn't consider that route.
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