MattK911
Contributor
This tends to be popping up within the cave community. Typically as cave divers in Florida bailout is sidemounted with a matching mix, necklace on the left post, and longhose on the right post. All other gasses are carried in stage bottles that are dropped along the cave, and if doing mix dives, a suit inflation bottle is worn. I’ve now seen this with several sidewinder divers using trimix and for the life of me can not imagine why this is propitiating. Best guess is it’s all to avoid carrying an inflation bottle, or to save money on trimix.
There are several concerning problems with this configuration. One being Typically sidemount divers are driving the longhose off the right bottle. So in the event of an emergency at max depth you’d be donating a stupid rich gas with no helium? Or are you adding another long hose on you left bottle?
Or is everyone really just solo diving?
Can someone please explain WHO this stems from, and a legitimate reason for use?
Edit: post edited to narrow results to cave diving
There are several concerning problems with this configuration. One being Typically sidemount divers are driving the longhose off the right bottle. So in the event of an emergency at max depth you’d be donating a stupid rich gas with no helium? Or are you adding another long hose on you left bottle?
Or is everyone really just solo diving?
Can someone please explain WHO this stems from, and a legitimate reason for use?
Edit: post edited to narrow results to cave diving