Sidemount and technical diving skills. This video shows you how to stage and re-stage a decompression gas cylinder in sidemount configuration. It's demonstrated in two different ways: (1) starting and ending from the top tank's top clip and (2) starting and ending from the bottom clip.
As always with Sidemount, there are plenty of options within the configuration, so what your instructor shows you may be different from these videos. For example, I cross the bottom clips of my bottom gas and deco tanks, so both hold each other in place, even as they become lighter throughout the dive. With three aluminium tanks as shown in the video (2 x bottom gas - one each on the left and the right - and 1 x deco gas on the left), the bottom clips of the tanks on the left are crossed and will not be moved throughout the dive. The bottom gas tank on the right, on the other hand, will be moved along the belt of the diver's harness as it becomes lighter.
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