Equipment Some excitement on Sunday morning

[Marie13]

I don’t dive in low viz without a light. I always use my light, anyways. I always tell rec buddies to bring a light. If they don’t have one, I’ll loan one. They are always pleasantly surprised how useful a light is for keeping track of your buddy in low viz.

 

[gamon]

I don’t dive in low viz without a light. I always use my light, anyways. I always tell rec buddies to bring a light. If they don’t have one, I’ll loan one. They are always pleasantly surprised how useful a light is for keeping track of your buddy in low viz.

I've never found a light to be useful in low visibility, if anything it makes the situation worse by causing reflections off the haze, no different than using high beams in a fog.

If you're referring to using the light to make it easier for your buddy to see you that's something else. But I wouldn't dive in extremely low visibility conditions with a buddy that are so poor you won't see them unless you catch a glimpse of their dive light. Odds are high that there will be a separation and if both are not self reliant, so equipped, and comfortable diving alone, and find themselves in poor vis which can make orientation difficult, that's a big problem.

 

[Marie13]

I've never found a light to be useful in low visibility, if anything it makes the situation worse by causing reflections off the haze, no different than using high beams in a fog.

If you're referring to using the light to make it easier for your buddy to see you that's something else. But I wouldn't dive in extremely low visibility conditions with a buddy that are so poor you won't see them unless you catch a glimpse of their dive light. Odds are high that there will be a separation and if both are not self reliant, so equipped, and comfortable diving alone, and find themselves in poor vis which can make orientation difficult, that's a big problem.

Light to help you see each other. Midwestern quarries and inland lakes are often low viz, so you adapt.

 

[gamon]

Light to help you see each other. Midwestern quarries and inland lakes are often low viz, so you adapt.

Seems like a reasonable adaptation would be to solo dive in such conditions so you don't spend most of the dive watching for your buddy's dive light.

 

[Marie13]

Seems like a reasonable adaptation would be to solo dive in such conditions so you don't spend most of the dive watching for your buddy's dive light.

Site I frequent doesn’t allow solo.