Hoover, Pierce (1999) " Tanks on the Side," Sport Diver, vol. 7, no. 5, October, p. 26 While diving, especially in caverns, divers encounter very narrow horizontal openings which they must pass in order to continue in the cave system. Unhooking the tank from the B.C. and pushing it a head of you is not always the safest way to go through an opening where you don't quite fit. There is a new system that allows divers to carry tanks with them and not effect their hand availability or their vertical size. This method is called side mounting. Side mounting places the diver's tanks at the side of the body and under the arms, thus reducing the diver's front-to-back profile to less than a foot for most divers. British sump divers were among the first to perfect the side-mounting system. To reach the submerged and deep portions of a cave, known as sumps, the diver is often required to....

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