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On Wed, 23 Nov 1994, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > ... Has anyone tried wearing back mounts "upside down" with the valves near the buttocks ...? You could reach that area with greater ease. It would require longer hoses ... [and others wrote about difficulties in reaching values placed behind the shoulders.] Sten Meyer <m87stme@mt*.ch*.se*> replied on Wed 23 Nov 1994 17:49:31 +0100 (MET):- > This is the way tanks for fire fighters are worn. The Interspiro (a.k.a. AGA) tanks are made this way. ... [and the regulator fastens onto the bottom of the set, needing long hoses] The long hoses would catch on things and cause drag. Also, a dropped mouthpiece might soon get very far from the diver's hands and arms and hard to recover quickly. The best arrangement would be like in a 1960's English aqualung called Normalair (made in Yeovil) that came with a single-hose regulator in a fullface mask: it had the on/off valves at the bottom end, and from them a metal high-pressure tube ran up between the cylinders to a regulator connection in the usual place behind the shoulders.
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