OrcaTorch
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Hey friends,
Let us know if you usually carry a dive torch for your diving!!
Let us know if you usually carry a dive torch for your diving!!
Do You Carry a Dive Torch for Your Diving?
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Tom_Ivan
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Yes but I'm pretty much only in caves/wrecks or training for caves/wrecks these days.
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Always, since I'm from the Netherlands where it get's dark at about 15 ft... I also find it useful to point something out at my buddy.
Always ... even though all my diving these days is open water in Florida. They are very handy to look under ledges, inside wrecks, into crevices, and for signaling buddies or the boat captain (in inclement weather).
GreggS
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I answered usually because there are some dives that it is just not necessary. But even at that, I'd say that I have at least one and normally 2 with me 99% of the time. We do a lot of quarry diving which can get rather dark really quick. If for nothing else, they're good for being able to tell where each other are.
And as others said, sometimes you just want to look into a dark place, even in clear Caribbean waters.
And as others said, sometimes you just want to look into a dark place, even in clear Caribbean waters.
ScubaBunga
Contributor
Always - never know when you need to peek in a hole or when quarry diving when it will get cloudy/dark. I used a bit of neoprene (from a cup koozie) and sewed on a little holster on my bcd - flashlight goes in and has a clip to a dRing so always secured and no longer in a harder to get out of pocket.
OTF
Coney Island Whitefish Biologist
Never. If I'm going to dive in the dark (night, caves, wrecks) i feel that it is important to experience the dark as it was meant to be. Without a light.
Always, that’s why I like the D710, pretty powerful and very compact
Cthippo
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Never. Don't own one, yet.
Thinking about getting a panel light for video sometime soon-ish though.
Thinking about getting a panel light for video sometime soon-ish though.
You need one with constant output. Check out We Test Lights | Dive Tests and Teviews for lights that do.
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