Navigating in Darkness

[FishDiver]

Your compass is on your left arm. Your light is in your left hand.

How do you read the compass in the dark?

 

[rainman_02]

Temporarily switch your light to your right hand and shine it on the compass.

 

[Soggy]

Your compass is on your left arm. Your light is in your left hand.

How do you read the compass in the dark?

You just get lost and die....

 

[pickens_46929]

I've heard that you can also turn-on one of your back up lights in place and use the abient light from it to read the compass. Haven't tried it yet.

 

[Ben_ca]

Hold your light on there to activate the "glow-in-the-dark" then proceed as normal... there's a lot of light spilling over from the lighthead anyway....

I've had to adjust just a little bit in the start and now it's a non-issue... Now if you don't have "a" primary or backups during a night dive now that's another issue:11:

 

[H2OU]

You just get lost and die....

 

[JeffG]

You just get lost and die....

I hate when that happens.

 

[Blitz]

I am about to briefly rant here.....

Ok, by no means am I GUE expert. I am a simple tech diver with a fundies cert, but I have this thing I do called thinking. What I learned about the GUE(DIR) system is simple: standardized gear config, standardized placement and standardized drills. All of that makes sense, but none of it is useful if YOU DON"T THINK! Its not a big stretch to realize that your light can be removed from your left hand so that you can illuminate your compass and take a heading.

 

[do it easy]

Its not a big stretch to realize that your light can be removed from your left hand so that you can illuminate your compass and take a heading.

Wow, that's much easier than removing the compass! Thanks!

 

[Blitz]

I'm here to help, man.