Twin tanks seperate regulators

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Twin tanks on the back with a bar connecting them, with a separate regulator on each post, is standard technical diving setup for backmount.

Twin tanks on the back WITHOUT a connecting bar, with a first stage on each tank, is called "independent doubles", and there has been a recent discussion of that configuration here.

Twin tanks NOT on the back, not connected, with a first stage on each tank, is called sidemount and is an increasingly popular gear configuration for cave diving.
 
From that same article "It consisted oftwo independent first-stage APEX regu-lators on a dual manifold, a MK 20 hat, aTX50 second stage regulator and DIN fit-tings made the connections. "

It's what would be considered the standard technical doubles setup (i.e. two regs and an isolation manifold)
 
Also noted was the depth of dives all well under 100'. Is this common of ice diving or not?

Ice (or lack of ice) is not a determining factor in the depth of a dive. In this case, military open circuit SCUBA, the divers are limited to a normal working limit of 130'.
 

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