Sidemounting Deco Bottles While In Backmounted Doubles.

[kr2y5]

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but could someone offer details on how to best mount an AL 40 while in manifolded doubles, in a way that will keep it very streamlined. With respect to streamlining, I'm mostly concerned with not having something clunky sticking in front of my chest, so that I can swim just a couple inches from the bottom, with GoPro in one hand, and light in the other, looking at tiny creatures.

The way I have been taught to wear the bottles, and the way most people seem to wear them, it seems like a massive entanglement hazard. I thought about carrying my bottle on a butt D-ring, so that at least my chest is clear while trying to get very close to something, but I'd hope there's a better way to do this.

I know some folks use bungees. How exactly? What works, and what doesn't? Note again that I am talking here about a slung deco bottle with back-mounted doubles, not about stage rigging for sidemount.

If the widely adopted system is not streamlined and bungees make it better, why isn't everyone doing the same? There must be downsides to it. What are they?

Thanks!

 

[tbone1004]

look on the rebreather forums about how they're sidemounting their bailouts. basically you just put a loop bungee or a straight bungee on a quick link and put it on one of the holes in the plate, and then treat the 40 like a normal sidemount bottle. not particularly difficult

 

[kr2y5]

Thanks. So I wonder, what's possibly wrong with this setup? Does it not scale to more than one bottle? A solution to a problem that can be somehow avoided? Unclear why it's not a standard.

 

[tbone1004]

can't answer that for you, though it doesn't scale to more than one bottle per side, the same way we have to get really creative in sidemount for our stage bottles

 

[PfcAJ]

I would do it like this for the period of time where I'm close to the bottom, but without the 2 chest mounted ones:

 

[JohnnyC]

I have a Dive Rite butt plate that's got a couple rails on it. Tank bottoms clipped to the rail and top clipped to shoulder, but with a bungee from the backplate around the valve pulls them in nice and high and tight. If the ass end starts to get a little floaty as you breath it down, move the clip from the rails to the waist band. Works well for doubles and rebreather bailout.

 

[kr2y5]

Thanks, guys. I guess no reason why I can't try out both, and see what works for me. Won't the extra pounds on the butt D-ring not interfere with trim? I guess I'll have to videotype myself, I'll find out soon enough.

 

[decompression]

Check this out.......

 

[PfcAJ]

Use a leash to drape the bottle over your left rear leg. It's not clipped off to the butt dring.

Won't mess with your trim. It's a trivial amount of weight.

 

[TONY CHANEY]

that is pretty cool Decompression. thanks.