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In true sidemount situations the long hose may be an entanglement hazard. A clean setup is very important in sidemount diving where you are close to the rock and any projection that could snag your gear. As for the 7 ft. hose in out of air situations when diving sidemounts, Again the long hose would be a potential entanglement or get caught on the cave. Passing a bottle to the OAD is the basic proceedure; then that person has a degree of autonomy in small places. Sam Frushour On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Ken Sallot wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:59:31 -0400 > From: Ken Sallot <kens@ac*.ne*> > To: cavers@cavers.com > Cc: freeattic@co*.ci*.uf*.ed* > Subject: sidemount question > > I do not dive sidemount so I have a question.. > > When diving sidemount, do you typically have two 7' hoses on the > bottles? One on each tank? > > My understanding is this is not the case, but looking at the bailout > procedures for a certain groups closed circuit electronic rebreather > implies that this is how you do it (the december 9 update has two > bailout tanks, sidemount fashion, with each having a 7' hose). > > Just curious, > > Ken > > "Say, is that your Captain Marvel secret decoder lunchbox you got > hanging back there?" - Anon E. Mouse >
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