R-balljunkie
Contributor
I did a night dive tonight. My normal backup light is dead, no batteries. I didnt feel like running to the store to get a fresh set of C batteries. Well the dive ran long, really long. 29% nitrox at an average of 25 feet....1 and a half hours later, still in the water. About 3 minutes from exiting the water my sola ran out...my logic was before i got in the water I had the two LED focus lights on my strobes (D-2000) which are essentially back up sources for lighting. I have to say they provided more than adequate lighting to navigate comfortably out of the water.
Question posed. Can we qualify LED focus lights as the back up source? I know some folks have some pretty powerful focus lights out there.
Before having to crawl into my flame suit, this was a shallow walk in dive I've done hundreds of times and i had a dive partner with whopping dual 1400's shooting video on my hip the whole time. Enough excuses from me for not having a true back up...next time i will. please pardon my honesty.
Question posed. Can we qualify LED focus lights as the back up source? I know some folks have some pretty powerful focus lights out there.
Before having to crawl into my flame suit, this was a shallow walk in dive I've done hundreds of times and i had a dive partner with whopping dual 1400's shooting video on my hip the whole time. Enough excuses from me for not having a true back up...next time i will. please pardon my honesty.