Side Mount Cylinder Rigging

Whether you are already a skilled diver or new to the sport.

Side mount cylinder rigging.

The rigging kit includes four 1 bolt snaps to clip your cylinders to your plate two stainless steel stage clamps with the well known halcyon webbing covers that fit either an aluminium 80 s or a steel tank and two elastic epdn bands to secure your regulator s. The cylinders are attached individually one on each side of the body instead of mounted on the back like a traditional open water configuration. It results from certain bungee configurations that aren t able to torque the cylinders as snug into the side of the torso. Using your side mount bcd 5 5 min gas awareness and spg checking 5 5 min regulator switching procedures 10 5 min sm diver trim check exercise 13 min cylinder trim check sliding d rings 11 min advanced buoyancy control 14 5 min.

Essentially cylinders are rigged to the sides of a harness and separate regulator systems are used to supply gas from each cylinder. He has obviously spent a decent amount of time thinking of how best to present all the information with plenty of top tips to learn. Not just on the side mount stuff but throughout his series of skills. This will be at the level of the buttplate rails.

Sidemount configuration by lamar hires by side mounting scuba cylinders divers are exploring places that are inaccessible with a more conventional back mounted configuration. By steve lewis one of the least mysterious things about sidemount diving is how to rig a set of steel primary cylinders so they hang at divers sides as they are supposed to rather than hanging pendulum like below them. Sidemount diving is a deviation from this norm. However some still struggle to get it anywhere close to right.

A sidemount diving configuration generally consists of two cylinders that are attached to an integrated harness and bc system. The cylinders are slightly lower at maybe 45 degrees from the torso centreline. It originated as a configuration for advanced cave diving as it facilitates penetration of tight sections of cave allows easy access to cylinder valves provides easy and reliable gas redundancy and tanks can be. One of the primary advantages of the sidemount configuration is that by moving the cylinders off of continue reading.

Can t say enough how helpful steves videos have been. Perhaps this article will help. Situating the cylinders in this fashion allowed early sidemount divers to remove and replace cylinders when the need arose to swim through confined spaces. Halcyon s sidemount cylinder rigging kit contains everything you need to secure and dive your preferred sm system.

Again measure down on the cylinder starting from the top of the cylinder valve. Step 2a steel buttplate measure on the cylinder. You will see slightly lower trim from many divers using continuous or independent style bungee systems. In this case you ll still measure down to the attachment point.