How do you secure your Strobe?

[O-ring]

And that is exactly how I lost my flashlight It held up great for a few months and then one day it wasn't there. I posted about it and was suggested superglu or zip ties. I figured why not both.

Maybe it's overboard... but I haven't lost anything else!

I do the super glue on the knot backup too. Like after the knot is done then squish super glue everywhere.

 

[Jack Hammer]

A bungee with a small boltsnap on it works. Just give the bungee a couple wraps around the anchor line and then clip it off to itself like you would if you were tying off a reel and leaving it.

This is exactly how I did mine. The bungee allows it to easily fit on many different sizes and shapes easily

 

[jtsfour]

You guys must tie better knots than me. I lost something once, now I tie the knot, soak it in superglue gel, then put a zip tie on it. Maybe overboard, but I don't ever want to look down at just a bolt snap again....

Just last weekend I had the pin in the shackle bolt snap come off of my dive rite reel..... luckily I was able to find the reel and a bolt to replace the pin. I put loc-tite on it then torqued it ridiculously.

 

[stuartv]

https://www.wetrocksdiving.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Knot.pdf

I also lost a light that was prepared using that type of knot. Bolt snap was still clipped to me. The cave line got cut/worn through. Now I use a zip tie and a slightly looser zip tie as backup, to hold the bolt snap on the light.

 

[stuartv]

For my LM strobe, I put a thick piece of bungee through the hole in the strobe and through a big bolt snap and tied it using double Fisherman's Knots. Basically, the same way you make a bungee necklace, but then pulled tight. Like this:

Double Fisherman’s Bend

The Double Fisherman's or Grapevine Bend consists of two strangle knots (like double overhand knots) each tied round the other standing end.

www.animatedknots.com

This gives me the flexibility to just clip it to a chain with the bolt snap, or to pretend the bolt snap isn't even there and use a Prusik Knot to hold it on a line.

Prusik Knot

Slide and grip knot used for climbing a static rope. Principal use is allowing a rope to be climbed - ascending or "Prusiking".

www.animatedknots.com

Or I could even do the Prusik and then put the end through the bolt snap and clip it off, kind of the way you secure a cave line with a bolt snap when doing an end of line tie-off, for even more security.

Whatever you do, just remember when you clip it off to put it higher, rather than lower. If the chain/line it's clipped to sags and results in the strobe laying on the bottom, it can make it really hard to see...