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Eric, The right side has to remain clean for long hose deployment. In an OOA situation, your buddy will yank the reg out of your mouth. The hose cannot snag on anything. That's why there is no d-ring. You cannot see the d-ring between the backplate and the canister, so if there is a nag, you won't be able to see it to sort it out. Have you considered carring your reels on your butt ring??? You really want the donation of your long hose to go smoothly. ss On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Eric Nelson wrote: > > After diving a different harness for a year I recently switched to an > EE, DIR rigged SS backplate & harness. It is much more comfortable and > seems to be cleaner (i.e. less convoluted) in the water. I am curious > as to why there is no D ring on the right hip. Presently I have my > canister light secured there with an inverted SS buckle, but am > considering adding a D ring between the light and the buckle as an > attachment point for two wreck reels. I've dove with the reels attached > to the crotch strap D ring but the reels seems to hang down further than > when using one of the side waist rings. Also the left side seems > overloaded with an argon bottle and stages. Since no DIR set up shows > this I can only assume that it is a BAD IDEA, but I would like to hear > the pros (if any) and cons of this idea from those in the group. One > reason I could think of why this would be sub optimal is the potential > interference with the long hose deployment. Any comments or help would > be greatly appreciated. > > Eric Nelson > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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