Question Attaching an Olympus case to the diver

[Wobbegong_th]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1615061-REG/ultralight_ac_lyc_camera_lanyard_with.html

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.

 

[RIHappyDiver]

I use one like this only with a spring clip. Never failed.

Do you remember the brand, so I can compare them?
Thanks

 

[RIHappyDiver]

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.

 

[ColoDale]

Do you remember the brand, so I can compare them?
Thanks

I don't remember the brand but it will be similar to this.

Wire Reinforced Stretch Coil Shock Lines

We always need to attach more stuff to our equipment to free up our hands when we need them. Lanyards for lights, cameras, gauges, game bags, or maybe even a fish stringer when spear fishing. Having a

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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.

 

[johnohuk]

Everything will try and float away from you in time so I advocate always have two points of contact when items are not in use. I Jump in with these attached to my chest ring and holding close to the chest. Once I see something interesting i'll unclib the short double ended snap bolt and if I need more reach, I'll undo the second one.

 

[justinthedeeps]

Everything will try and float away from you in time so I advocate always have two points of contact when items are not in use. I Jump in with these attached to my chest ring and holding close to the chest. Once I see something interesting i'll unclib the short double ended snap bolt and if I need more reach, I'll undo the second one.

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I do almost the same as this, with a strong 316 stainless steel keyring that can take a double-ender,

except instead of the longer leash and extra bolt snap, I just have a simple expandable wrist loop with a dive-grade (stainless spring) plastic button-style snugger fitting.

 

[Rilelen]

I attached a boltsnap to the wrist lanyard that ships with the TG-6, and keep it clipped to my chest. When diving in the caves, I add a second lanyard, and clip one end to my chest D-ring and the other to a waist D-ring so the camera is clipped to me much like you would a stage bottle.