Considering Sidemount...looking for folks in Puget Sound and info :)

[Andrew Dawson]

I see, I read about the three common ways...what you say makes sense.

Which bungee setup to do you run and why?

 

[rjack321]

I see, I read about the three common ways...what you say makes sense.

Which bungee setup to do you run and why?

Are you listening to advice now or just doing your own thing by trial and error like with the L/R hoses?

 

[Doby45]

I run my bungees and tanks exactly like @rjack321, hundreds of sidemount dives and no issue. Knobs out, regs down.

 

[Andrew Dawson]

Are you listening to advice now or just doing your own thing by trial and error like with the L/R hoses?

Yo, when did I say I would not take advice?? I never said I would not take advice...which is why I asked questions about the setup I was thinking about....to get advice

IMHO, those that say there is only one way of doing things...will not be pioneers and stifle growth and innovation in our sport. Had we not done this, asked questions...we would all be free diving

 

[Doby45]

Yo, when did I say I would not take advice?? I never said I would not take advice...which is why I asked questions about the setup I was thinking about....to get advice

IMHO, those that say there is only one way of doing things...will not be pioneers and stifle growth and innovation in our sport. Had we not done this, asked questions...we would all be free diving

Sidemount diving is one of the least structured dive styles. There are so many variables and configurations. Have there been styles that have become more the "norm" than others, sure. That does not mean that it is the ONLY way to dive sidemount. There are two primary styles and that has been decided more than anything by temperature, warm or cold diving. Cold, steels and drysuit. Warm, aluminum and wetsuit. Does that mean there is no one out there diving warm water in a drysuit and steels or diving cold water in a wetsuit and aluminums, nope.

Then you get to regs and their configurations. Long hose, short hose, regs up, regs down, gauges lollipopped or down the side of the tank or AI transmitters. etc..etc..

So needless to say, when you give certain parameters that you plan to dive in, that is the reason you get the answers you do. Does that mean you can't try something else, no.

 

[J-Vo]

Double long hoses for me. I rig the left one as normal with a bungee necklace. I find using a long hose allows infinite length adjustment, and any hoses coming off the top of the reg into my armpit limit mobility too much.

As for travel, I haven't found a valve yet that didn't have enough of a nub to wrap with my loop bungee. I just wrap the nub on one side and the valve on the other. For serious tech stuff I will look for left/right valves though.

EDIT: I had my right/left switched.