Question Attaching an Olympus case to the diver

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Me & my wife use lanyard similar to the one in the link.
Hers was for a compact Ikelite housing for Canon S100, tray, arm and one medium size light.
Mine was for Ikelite Housing for EM5III, tray, arm and one Ikelite DS-161 strobe.
Look for landyard that there's stainless steel cable core inside the coiled spring part.
First couple of set that I used did not have the core, and it disintegrated during storage.

For entry, it depends on situation. If it was calm enough, we'll have the camera handed to us after our entry. However, sometime we giant-stride off the back of a boat in flowing current. So, we hooked the lanyard to D-ring on BCD, unlock the buckle, lift the camera set overhead and big step giant-stride off the boat. Doing this properly the camera won't get any impact at all.
 
Me & my wife use lanyard similar to the one in the link.
Hers was for a compact Ikelite housing for Canon S100, tray, arm and one medium size light.
Mine was for Ikelite Housing for EM5III, tray, arm and one Ikelite DS-161 strobe.
Look for landyard that there's stainless steel cable core inside the coiled spring part.
First couple of set that I used did not have the core, and it disintegrated during storage.

For entry, it depends on situation. If it was calm enough, we'll have the camera handed to us after our entry. However, sometime we giant-stride off the back of a boat in flowing current. So, we hooked the lanyard to D-ring on BCD, unlock the buckle, lift the camera set overhead and big step giant-stride off the boat. Doing this properly the camera won't get any impact at all.
Thanks for mentioning stainless steel cable. I think I’ve gotten so caught up in making sure the clips are SS that I’ve been overlooking that point.
 
Do you remember the brand, so I can compare them?
Thanks
I don't remember the brand but it will be similar to this.
However I have a looped cord on one end instead of the spring clip. There are many brands, some cheap and some not. I have stainless clips but brass will work.
I make sure the stretched coil is a long as my arm in case I need to extend the camera to arms length.
I prefer the wire cable in the coil. I have had the solid black plastic coil and they have broken around the connection points. I can sort of fix them but at that point the plastic has deteriorated to the point where it just keeps happening and it's basically trash except for the hardware.
 

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