#1600
lerpy - 11/21/2013 5:31 AM
The consensus so far up here is that sidemount is not as good for wreck diving and diving off boats. In wrecks in a lot of cases you have the hieght, but not as much width, narrow passageways, stairs, etc that you can encounter in a wreck. As well diving off boats sometimes requires a negative drop which would be difficult with side mount as from what I know you hook your tanks once you are in the water.

On the plus side, for me, when I am in Florida I am always looking at all the backmount gear that people are selling used as they switch over to sidemount.