Side Mounting
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Hoover, Pierce (1999) " Tanks on the Side," Sport Diver, vol. 7, no. 5, October,
While diving, especially in caverns, divers encounter very narrow horizontal openings which they must pass in order to continue in the cave system. Unhooking the tank from the B.C. and pushing it a head of you is not ....
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.... So the divers would carry the tanks through the dry portions of the cave and just attach it to their weight belt when they get to the dangerous portion of the cave. The next phase in the side-mounting
history came when Americans began using side-mounted tanks to squeeze into low or narrow underwater cave passages too confined for traditional double-tank rigs. Now, a new system promises to bring into the mainstream of diving technology.
Dive Rite, a huge manufacturer of diving equ ....
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