HELMET mounted LIGHTS
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They're good for solo sump diving.. bad for pretty much everything else. Useless for signalling and you're going to blind your buddy. What kind of diving do you do?
local lake diving, below 50ft its black with coffee stained water, 1-2ft vis mostly with your light. I have to work on bouy cables that get snaged due to water level changes and training platforms plus help the instructors with students on there aow dives. I also like to just swim along the cliff edges and the bottom from 60-90ft to rumage around.
Well, underwater work sounds like good use for them.. not so sure about helping the instructor. You'll be blinding students every time you look at them.
In any case, I mount lights to my helmet for caving. I typically use a couple of zip ties to mount small LED lights.. same principle can be applied to something a little bigger and brighter, like maybe an Underwater Kinetics SL4. Will depend on the helmet, but generally however you can strap em on works for my "dry" (heh, heh) caving.
In any case, I mount lights to my helmet for caving. I typically use a couple of zip ties to mount small LED lights.. same principle can be applied to something a little bigger and brighter, like maybe an Underwater Kinetics SL4. Will depend on the helmet, but generally however you can strap em on works for my "dry" (heh, heh) caving.
This is for dry caving, not wet caving, so I use a rock climbing helmet - Petzl Ecrin Best. "Dry" caving means everything up to and including brief submersion or 40' passages where there is only 2" of air... but still. We need helmets that can protect our noggins from big rockfall or big people fall. I can't imagine why a helmet would be useful in regular diving, but a cheap kayaking helmet like the Protec should be more than sufficient and less bulky than a typical climbing helmet.
Yeah, they make some neat stuff.. saw one of their head mounted lights once. Definitely an upgrade to a pair of zip-tied SL4's, but much more expensive.
Were you going to use the helmet just to mount the lights?
Were you going to use the helmet just to mount the lights?
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