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Good point.Oh and it's not a helmet - it's a professional gopro hands free platform! suitable for all diving locations!
Here is an example of 'real life' cable routing with the helmet mounted light head.
The head is twisted around itself twice, so the cable spirals down the side of my head and neck, but still above the long hose.
Thanks.Cool helmet BTW.
The attachment can be rotated.Uhh mmm ... why is it stick up in the air? Just curious.
I had the lights pointed downward at a 10 or 15 degree angle, avoids blinding buddys and animals and directs the light more towards the hands.Disregard that my light is permanently attached. The point is that it is horizontal.
Could not afford that configI carry 2 canisters and the other one is on a handle.
Likewise, my buddys would kill me, I am a nuisance as it isI would probably be dead if I had my light mounted like yours.
I rarely dive solo nowadays.I don't have a buddy to blind so I can keep mine facing forward and it's fine.
Thanks.
The attachment can be rotated.
That angle is the 'I do not want to blind my buddy position'
In a restriction or any overhead situation you would not point it downward that way, in open water it helps a lot to be able to do so.
Water on that dive was so brightly illuminated the canister-light was useless most of the time and I primarily used a hand-held video light.
I had the lights pointed downward at a 10 or 15 degree angle, avoids blinding buddys and animals and directs the light more towards the hands.
Now that I have the rotating and removable attachment I mostly turn the main light slightly upwards in overhead (I do not mean caves here!!) situations, forward when in front of the group, downward the rest of the time and rarely use the single backup left on the helmet at all.
Could not afford that config
Likewise, my buddys would kill me, I am a nuisance as it is
To be honest it is more important to me to be able to look at a pike directly without the light pointing at it.
And I am quite sure the config is 'save' anywhere, as the light (and cable) can be turned to the angle optimal for any situation.
Went through an airplane (a 767, I think) front window the other day without the cable even touching.
In many restrictions that would be more familiar to a cave diver I imagine I would remove the light from the helmet anyway.
2000 lumen hitting a wall directly in front of your face is painful and useless.
I rarely dive solo nowadays.
My first helmets where purely for solo diving with the lights pointed directly forward.
But as i said animals are a more important factor for the downward angle than humans.
It is hard to point a camera where you are not looking and the bright spots of the helmet lights often ruin pictures and vids.