Sidemount Diving Benefits, Cold Water Dive Gear Introduction
Channel: Adventure Travel and Scuba
Date: 2020-06-22

Sidemount Diving Benefits, Cold Water Dive Gear Introduction

Why I chose sidemount over backmount? In my opinion sidemount dive gear is more versatile over backmount twins or even a single tank.  It puts way less stress on Your body especially when doing shore diving.  It gives you a way safer perspective of safety because of redundancy I have a backup of everything because of two separate air systems if anything goes wrong I have two totally independent air systems.  That means two separate regulators and separate tanks two separate pressure gauges.  It can be only tricky if you want to dive with full gear on you when diving of the boat.  There are ways around it as You can most of the time get in to the water without tanks and someone can pass them over to You of the boat and you can clip them while in the water.  At the same time you can still do sidemount with a single tank byt in that case You will have to have a separate regulator (octopus) same as single tank back mount setup and configure you weight slightly different to off set you weight on other side of the tank.  In my opinion sidemount diving makes you a way better diver as you will be constantly evolving your buoyancy skills trim.  Sidemount gives you piece of mind of having way more air if you are an air hog, giving you more time to complete your full safety stops and in emergency you can offer air to another diver that may be in need. Another thing i like is a lot more "cool" then back mount, most of the time sidemount divers have everything organized, no hanging dive gear such us hoses computers and most of the sidemount divers thrive to achieve perfect trim and buoyancy.  it also offer longer bottom time if you are diving with two tanks,  it is ideal for underwater photography and video because of your diving position.  It takes few dives to get used to the new setup once you choose Your sidemount harness, make sure to do your research as there is quite a few choices.  I chose the XDeep as it is probably most streamlined system and it can be tweaked to perfection to fit your body it also offers weight integrated compartments one thing to be aware you can not ditch your weights as they teach you in Open water course.  Sidemount was meant to be mostly for technical divers and cave divers, most of my dives are within recreational limits but I do time to time decompression dives.  I love the idea that I can bring my tanks to the shore and put them on in the water without putting strain on my back.  
This video was recorded in Forgetmenot Pond Kananskis Country Canada near Calgary Alberta, it is a shallow lake 17 ft max with very good visibility for most days.  I hope that video will answer some questions for someone that is thinking of switching to this setup I did that 6 years ago and did not use the back mount ever since.  If you liked the video hit the like button and comment bellow, SUBSCRIBE to my channel this way you can stay updated when I release new content.  This channel offers footage from my dive trips and other outdoor experiences, resort reviews, and adventure motorcycle riding and how to videos.  Thank You for watching.

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