Quote Originally Posted by D1V3R
Right, but SM isnt any safer than Independant BM right?
Just my opinion but if you add an H-Valve to one of your sidemount tanks and run an extra reg on it, that makes it the safest way to solo dive....I tried independents for a while, but it's not like you can change your reg out underwater with independents, so if you were to lose a reg you'd lose half your gas, hence the transition to sidemount.

I'm doing quite a bit of solo backmount with a buddy bottle but as you get farther back in the cave the tunnels get smaller, and I really don't want to be dragging "Justin" around, so hence I'm in the SM transition stage. That said I still prefer back mounting for everyday cave diving...

Safe diving,

Rich