Crossed straps?

[*Floater*]

I hear the term "crossed straps" referenced every once in a while, but I have never seen it. Could someone post pics of what the threading looks like and how it on a person. Just curious to know what people are talking about.

Also, what are the advantages and disadvantages of crossing the straps?

 

[Jason Ooi]

I never seen before...interesting

 

[CIBDiving]

I use them crossed.
Basicly instead of the shoulder loops coming out of the plate and straight down to the waist slots, you take them across to the opposite sides waist slots. It makes the harness itself a little longer ( you need more webbing ) but other than that it's rigged the same way. It does give you a little bigger loop for each shoulder, that then gets a little tighter when you stand up, the strap try top pull themselves on not pull your shoulders back. The straps cross just about your sholder blades in back. They stay on ( or at least ride higher, more toward the neck, out of the arm pits) a little better than the 'straight' rigging on land, But it doesn't make Much difference in the water.

I don't have pix right now, but I'll see if I can do something if nobody else does.

 

[cool_hardware52]

I hear the term "crossed straps" referenced every once in a while, but I have never seen it. Could someone post pics of what the threading looks like and how it on a person. Just curious to know what people are talking about.

Also, what are the advantages and disadvantages of crossing the straps?

Floater,

The single rig on our website with the Pro-Fit Harness is rigged with the straps crossed.

Crossing the shoulder straps behind the divers head has a couple of effects. The shoulder straps are longer, some find this easier to don and doff. It also causes the straps to move inboard so they don't bear on the top of the deltoid muscles. This can be more comfortable for slighter framed people, it can also cause neck seal rub for some. It also causes the backplate to ride lower on the diver's back.


Tobin

 

[TSandM]

I cross mine, because I'm narrow across the shoulders, and when I run the straps straight over, they chew into the insides of my upper arms. Crossing them requires more length of harness, can put the harness straps on the lower portion of the latex neck seal in some suits (like my Diving Concepts one), and I think makes it a little more difficult to get out of the harness.

 

[*Floater*]

Thanks for the explanation and now that it was pointed out to me I just noticed the crossed straps on Tobin's pro-fit rig for the first time. My girlfriend is of narrow or slighter frame so maybe this is something she might be interested in...