Originally posted by Uncle Pug
Besides... I don't need to see Shane... all I need to see is the beam from his HID and I know:
Where he is...
What he is doing...
Where he is heading...
What he wants to communicate...
But what if something happened to you & Shane, and he and his light were injured together. He may be unconscious. You have to find and assist him. Wouldn't it be better if he was wearing some bright colors that you may glimpse a corner of using your HID to scan through the silt that has been stirred up during the traumatic event that caused the injuries?
I realize that you have lots of plans, rules, procedures and practices to PREVENT such a thing from occuring, but with many things in diving, especially technical diving, divers' have all sorts of additional backups to handle things that probably shouldn't occur if everything is done right. Why isn't having light-colored material on exposure suits/other gear the safest thing to do...in case your lights fail and you're separated? And if it is the safest thing to do, why isn't it addressed in DIR? It seems that it isn't banned in DIR (based on the picture from another post), and I still don't understand the night-vision thing completely.
The more I think about it, the more sense non-black gear makes to me...but since I really believe that most technical divers really do go through a lot of effort to maximize their own safety, I keep thinking that there's got to be deliberate reason tech stuff is black...but then again, colored stuff isn't banned in DIR...and around I go again.
So I'm confused about whether or not I should buy black gear if I ever want to move beyond the limits of recreational diving (with proper training, of course.)