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    Thanks to everyone who has completed my survey! I am getting some great responses and I think your feedback will be very helpful. I would love to hear from more divers on this subject. If you have not yet filled it out, here is the link again.

    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/89DVKMB

    Please use this survey instead of the one in the original post. Some seem to be having problems with the original.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster View Post
    ........it is becoming very mainstream in open water as well as in the cave environment..
    I am in favour of getting OW divers off single cylinders and onto redundants for all OW diving. Whether it will actually happen................

    Quote Originally Posted by argyris View Post
    Some people want to use SM not because of real need but because they will look different.
    Shutdowns are greatly simplified with SM, no more reaching back like manifolded sets and if regs freeflow breathing can be controlled by turning gas on/off for each breath

    Quote Originally Posted by RN View Post
    .....It's a configuration people are going to so they can save their backs and knees.
    Sidemounts are a god send if you are short, the carry is also easier if your cylinders are separate til you gear up

    Just my views only!

    Disclaimer: Any statements, opinions and points of view expressed in this post represent those of the author only. Simularities by other individuals are purely coincidental.

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    What MDS said!

    I Semper Fi, Cameron David Smith, my son, my hero. 11/9/1989 - 11/13/2010

    Never forget, we were all beginners once. Allain Burrese

    My name is Shirley Kasser Creech and I approve this message. Well, at least one of me does, anyway. Maybe. Fire. Sharp things. Squirrel!

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    Jason and Chrissy Richards completed the all-weekend cave survey class here in Murfreesboro, and not one attendee was a backmount diver. It was all sidemount. Several attendees (FW, Marbry, Mark W.) brought out new and interesting ways to configure sidemount in a show and tell as the topic veered from cave surveying to gear (like posts on the forum, humans in person can't stay on OP's topic!).

    Mark W. commented that "It's taken over 5 years, but I think we're beginning to see the way to sidemount!" Maybe we can them to share their insights and inventions in the sidemount subforum. I know they have pictures.

    -skip

    "Learning the techniques of others does not interfere with the discovery of techniques of one's own." B.F. Skinner, 1970.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skip View Post
    Jason and Chrissy Richards completed the all-weekend cave survey class here in Murfreesboro, and not one attendee was a backmount diver. It was all sidemount. Several attendees (FW, Marbry, Mark W.) brought out new and interesting ways to configure sidemount in a show and tell as the topic veered from cave surveying to gear (like posts on the forum, humans in person can't stay on OP's topic!).

    Mark W. commented that "It's taken over 5 years, but I think we're beginning to see the way to sidemount!" Maybe we can them to share their insights and inventions in the sidemount subforum. I know they have pictures.

    -skip
    Awesome! I can't wait to get a peek! Thanks for the update.

    Give us a run down on the rest of the weekend? Where'd you go? What'd you do? Who fell in the mud? You know...the good stuff!

    I Semper Fi, Cameron David Smith, my son, my hero. 11/9/1989 - 11/13/2010

    Never forget, we were all beginners once. Allain Burrese

    My name is Shirley Kasser Creech and I approve this message. Well, at least one of me does, anyway. Maybe. Fire. Sharp things. Squirrel!

    Shirley you're not serious? No, I'm not, but do stop calling me Shirley.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sskasser View Post
    Awesome! I can't wait to get a peek! Thanks for the update.

    Give us a run down on the rest of the weekend? Where'd you go? What'd you do? Who fell in the mud? You know...the good stuff!
    We practiced "dry" surveying in the "driest" aprt of Snail Shell. I think everyone "ran out of gas" Sunday, because the only diving was in the shop pool

    It was Mark that fell, but on rocks, not mud He is OK, though, just a little stiff.

    Forrest Wilson (with 2 Rs)
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    Bummer on the diving. Mark, glad you're ok. Maybe the three of you can give us a rehash of the course while we're in Mexico. That'd be most cool!

    I Semper Fi, Cameron David Smith, my son, my hero. 11/9/1989 - 11/13/2010

    Never forget, we were all beginners once. Allain Burrese

    My name is Shirley Kasser Creech and I approve this message. Well, at least one of me does, anyway. Maybe. Fire. Sharp things. Squirrel!

    Shirley you're not serious? No, I'm not, but do stop calling me Shirley.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FW View Post
    We practiced "dry" surveying in the "driest" aprt of Snail Shell. I think everyone "ran out of gas" Sunday, because the only diving was in the shop pool

    It was Mark that fell, but on rocks, not mud He is OK, though, just a little stiff.
    I hope he is okay....it has been a bad time for falls lately for him.Wish him well!



 

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