Side mounts are an option used when there is not available space to wear back
mounted tanks, such 
as very tight cave.  Indeed, independent doubles are logistically identical to
sidemounts, but for 
back mounted application they are inferior to isolation manifolded doubles,
from the perspective of 
component and system failure survival probability.

-Sean


On Sun, 31 May 1998 18:41:11 -0400, Joel Silverstein wrote:

>Now... someone tell me what the difference is between diving a set of
>independant doubles and diving side-mounts.  Seems like gas management
>rules are the same, redundancy is the same, still need two first, second,
>and SPG's. 
>
>Some times a set of splits works just fine.



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