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Originally Posted by aprilgoddess1987
I noticed on a night dive a diver that lloked like a christmas tree with lights on his mask bcd and hands, he had at least 5 lights on him is this over kill, how many lights do you carry? According to AOW your suppose to have a primary, secondary, and a backup but how many people follow this rule
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I do a few night dives. Try to go once a week. Maybe I have 200 of them in so I see what the other guys have as well as what I like.
I always have a primary. If I had the bucks it would be an HID canister light, no question. But I don't have one. I use either my UK C8 eLED or my UK D8. Mostly I take the big dumb D8. My backup is always some AA cell powered light that takes eithe four or 6 cells. That's enough. Some times durring lobster season I'l take a small light and mount it to my mask strap as a head light so I have both hands free for hunting
You DO need a backup light. without a light you'd have to abort the dive right away because yo' have no way to read your SPG. I can dive without a computer or compass but not without an SPG.
Once my buddies HID light failed. He went for his backup. The backup worked OK in theparking lot but was flooded. I was going to give him my backup light but he waived it off. We continued on with just my primary. After about five more minutes of tapping and knocking his HID came back to life. So,... I've seen a diver loose both lights on the same dive so maybe three is not a bad idea. But then again in open water rec diving loosing both lights is not a major emergency. On the other hand I've known divers wo alway turn on two lights and leave them both on the whole dive because they can't deal with total darkness.