Attaching a torch/flashlight to your BCD so you can use it but not drop it.

[boqurant]

So if you have light(s) clipped to chest drings and your chest is close to your head where your eyes are

So why unclip them or carry them anywhere else

For the same reason my mum pulls my arms all the way through the sleeves of my jumper

 

[LI-er]

Anything clipped to a retractor that doesn't have a secondary attachment point or doesn't live inside a pocket is subject to loss. Consider clipping the light to a high strength retractor that locks the gear in one position (usually fully retracted). I alternate between camera and torch and the convenience is worth the possible loss due to retractor failing.

The retractor is "hardwired" behind my right BCD pocket using a plastic square that screws to the back of the retractor so no extra dangling.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

I keep a 3 1/2" rubber gasket around my wrist and bolt snap lights, cameras, compass, etc to it depending on my needs. I bought like 100 of them from McMaster Carr years ago and keep a few in my boat bag just in case. I've been known to recycle my wife's stretched out hair bands, too.

A diver's life all about the bolt-snaps. No small number of us here might even say we have a problem with collecting bolt snaps.

Piranha is currently making the "upgraded style" of bolt-snaps at a much more reasonable price than the XDeeps.

 

[MacDuyver]

The Goodman soft mount at DGX is $10. DGX Soft Handmount

Tovatec makes a version with even better fit

Tovatec Deluxe Torch Hand Strap - DirDirect

Universal Tovatec Deluxe Torch Hand Strap allows you to free both hands during the dive whilst using your light. For Tovatec Fusion 530, 1000, 1500, 3600.

www.dirdirect.com

 

[rongoodman]

The problem with soft Goodman handles, as well as the various bracelet solutions, is that they make it hard to move the light from hand to hand when you need to. E.g., if your light is on your left hand, where is it going to be pointing when you reach back to dump some gas?

 

[Gone for diving]

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[mcohen1021]

I loop the wrist lanyard through itself onto my BC and it allows me to pull it out or retract.

 

[NothingClever]

Silicone wrist band.

 

[etxtacoma]

Took a dive lanyard that has a quick release buckle and the steel coil lanyard that I originally purchased for my GoPro and put that on my handheld torch, have one side clipped to the D ring above my right BCD Waist pocket and the other clipped to the wrist lanyard on the light. Makes it so I can release the buckle if needed for easier movement of the light and if I need my right hand free, I can drop it quickly and let it hang off me and then find it again.

Can fit it all into the pocket and zip it up if needed with the clip still attached to the d ring.

 

[grantwiscour]

I keep a 3 1/2" rubber gasket around my wrist and bolt snap lights, cameras, compass, etc to it depending on my needs. I bought like 100 of them from McMaster Carr years ago and keep a few in my boat bag just in case. I've been known to recycle my wife's stretched out hair bands, too.

A diver's life all about the bolt-snaps. No small number of us here might even say we have a problem with collecting bolt snaps.

Piranha is currently making the "upgraded style" of bolt-snaps at a much more reasonable price than the XDeeps.

This is how I do it. Rubber bands around the bc shoulder strap...I think I got them from DRIS.