Primary light: How best to carry?

[mistressmotorsports]

I use one of these extendable lanyard clips on a right upper D ring for mine:

Princeton Tec Coil Lanyard GG-100-BK with reviews at scuba.com

During entries, exits, and any time I want both hands free, I clip the lanyard in its short position, which is only a couple inches of dangly. Once I start descending, I unclip the connector, and the lanyard extends, although it stays attached to the D ring. If I drop the light, it can only fall to the extent the lanyard stretches. With about 3 feet of stretch, it's easy to hold the light in any position I want.

This might not be the best where there are entanglement hazards, but for my Laguna Beach or Carribean night dives, it works just fine.

Mike

 

[Avic7]

I have it clipped to a D ring. I don't need to unclip it to use it, but when I have it with me It's in my hand the majority of the dive. I only leave it hang when I'm first getting into the water, and when I'm on my safety stop until I get out.

Yup, what he said. Sometimes when its good visibility, I just leave it and not worry about it at all.

 

[NOVIZWHIZ]

I could write a book ...friend of mine rolled out our 18 ft boat and his light stayed in the boat...big heavy pistol grip thing with one of those lanyards made of black hosing / tubing tied to his wrist....it stretched about 3 or 4 ft and he's hanging over the side by his wrist - about that time the light came unhung and the kinetic energy in that stretched out lanyard swung about 4 lbs of light up over the gunnel and down on top of his head...I though it had killed him...he was cross-eyed for a couple of days and had a headache for a week.

I built a helmet out of a bicycle helmet, mounted three of the 6 cell Q-beam lights on it - one in the middle, one on each side focused about 4 ft out - about the limit of my viz - i can use any combination or all three...I can also remove one - mount the head for my cave-light when I want a lot of light, save the other two for spares in case my battery (or bulb ...grumble, grumble) goes down. I really like the proteCtion for my head - I river dive and am always bumping into something head first, did a free ascent and hit the boat one time - I actually wore it on a night reef dive off-shore once - the rest of the group was laughing at my rig, AFTER THE DIVE THEY ALL WANTED ONE.

 

[Avic7]

I could write a book ...friend of mine rolled out our 18 ft boat and his light stayed in the boat...big heavy pistol grip thing with one of those lanyards made of black hosing / tubing tied to his wrist....it stretched about 3 or 4 ft and he's hanging over the side by his wrist - about that time the light came unhung and the kinetic energy in that stretched out lanyard swung about 4 lbs of light up over the gunnel and down on top of his head...I though it had killed him...he was cross-eyed for a couple of days and had a headache for a week.

I built a helmet out of a bicycle helmet, mounted three of the 6 cell Q-beam lights on it - one in the middle, one on each side focused about 4 ft out - about the limit of my viz - i can use any combination or all three...I can also remove one - mount the head for my cave-light when I want a lot of light, save the other two for spares in case my battery (or bulb ...grumble, grumble) goes down. I really like the proteCtion for my head - I river dive and am always bumping into something head first, did a free ascent and hit the boat one time - I actually wore it on a night reef dive off-shore once - the rest of the group was laughing at my rig, AFTER THE DIVE THEY ALL WANTED ONE.

Do you think you could post a picture of your helmet gear? Its sounds pretty neat.