Quote: (Originally Posted by ScubaDadMiami)
After seeing a picture of myself (a great way to see how your gear configuration is working out), I changed my sidemount setup, lengthening the tail straps on my aluminum 40 tanks. However, even when full, the tail is floating up. With an oxygen bottle down to 500 psi, it floated so much that it was in the way when I went to practice shutting down the oxygen valve during a solenoid stuck open drill.
If you carry aluminum 40s, how much weight are you adding to your tanks to keep it from floating up? I want the minimum possible. I am guessing that two pounds should do it. This would be for salt water.
I sidemount my bail out AL 40 keeping the tail clip almost at the bottom of the tank and no weights on the bottle. Being my Rebreather is on my back I weight my rig and body and not my bail out bottle. I rig my bottle this way because it hands directly on my side and under my arm. When diving OC side mount there are other factors to consider with triming because nothing is on your back, remember side mount slinging is a modification so somethings will alter from traditional OC sidemount rigging. If you start weighting your BO bottle it is past your center of gravity and your trim might be altered drasticly.