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"Light discipline," YES! Both being spatially aware of yourself and your light, and establishing communication with lights. I've been with many and experienced diver that forgets these things, LOL! I also loved the tip about using the edge of your light to highlight interesting fish. Tarpon can be such party poopers.
Oh I’ve had a few tarpon encounters that may have influenced some of my word choice 🤣🤣🤣 The amount of times I’ve been blinded underwater…..light discipline is one of the biggest things I stress with new night divers 😂
Hehe, my thumbnail artist insisted that he wanted to show darkness with something lurking. I wanted to highlight the idea of proper dive torches and other safety aspects, so it’s a little bit of a stretch of my comfort but yeah haha. Thanks!
Personally not a fan of mask mounted. Handheld or hand mounted like a Goodman handle are my preferred. Handheld for recreational is fine for me. Tec diving depending on the situation I’ll want a goodman handle.
Charge your gauges with your lights before you dive into the water. Set your lights to low output when you're diving into clear water. In murky water, use a light with a narrow beam and preferably no corona. This will help pierce through the particulates and reduce backscatter.
Have you ever tried the tank marker light in the daytime in low vis? We had about 8ft visibility this past weekend in Monterey and could barely see my buddies. Wondering if this would be effective or not bright enough.
So I actually leave mine on my regulator through the yoke valve or on my cam band on my setup with my DIN reg, and it has 500+ hours, so it’s just there 😅 I haven’t specifically asked or looked to see how bright it may be in our lake conditions that can be down to 5ft of viz, I’ll try checking into that though!
@@CircleHScubaThanks, I’d appreciate if you could let me know next time you ask a buddy. 500+ hours is crazy and I like the idea of just leaving it on all the time if it works. Another question I have is regarding lumens. For a primary light, what’s the minimum you’d recommend for rec and night diving? I’d like a small light but understand it’s a trade off with brightness.
@ChrisD624 I think it’s a bit of a preference thing but I’ve seen people say 400-700 is fine and being able to jump up to maybe 1k or more for specific situations is a nice to have. For reference, my current video lights are 2000 lumens each in a soft wide angle beam, and so just fine. I mean more light is always better for footage, but they do perfectly fine. I think if I HAD to put a number, 700-1000 is probably all I’d use on a normal dive and maybe some parts I’d crank it up some depending on what I needed. Your eyes adjust underwater at night like they do during the day too, so it depends on ambient light from the moon and such as well
@@ChrisD624 There's no single correct answer to the lumen question. It greatly depends on how the light distributes the lumen. A narrow beam 500 lumen is brighter than a 1000 lumen floodlight. Lumen describes the total amount of light it outputs. Candella is the measure of brightness.
Besides night-dives I like night-snorkeling with my snorkeling certified children in the Red-Sea (Dahab to be exactly). With two flashlights and a camera we see a lot of sea-life, like Lion-fishes, octopuses, calamaris, bluespotted stingray's, thousands of small fishes and even morenes. They and me like it a lot. Before I made a lot of night-dives, sometimes it looked like hoovering above the moonsurface. On my youtube channel I posted two video's of nightdives, One with a spanish dancer (red snale) and one of to morenes hugging each other
@@CircleHScuba Sorry, I posted a comment and it was gone, I tried again, and it was gone too, that why the test. I still don't seed any comments 😞 after a while my comments shows up. I deleted them direct
I know it’s against standards, but I don’t dive with tank markers. My buddies light is much more obvious than that tiny LED. I really don’t think they’re necessary if you’re carrying redundant gear
I think it’s just nice to have the light behind them as well and it can be a low power surface marker as well. I hear you, but with how cheap they are I think it’s worth securing personally. No downside to it if it’s no to low maintenance, water activated, etc 🤷♂️
Thanks for this, it’s honestly good feedback. The video is more on night diving and you do need a torch, so talking about features of a torch and their torch happens to have those features felt pretty natural to me. I think there’s about 60 seconds total of orcatorch talk on the 11 minute video, but perhaps even that was too much. Do you have any suggestions on how I could’ve presented a needed tool (dive torch) that would’ve felt better? I mean, the “sponsor” aspect is they sent me the torch and I had the choice to do what I wanted, so again, just discussing good torch properties and why you need a primary and backup, felt natural and something I would’ve done regardless.
@@CircleHScuba For me personally the balance seemed fine. Orca torches are good torches. Reliable and not too expensive. I personally went for Apeks torches as I liked their approach to creating dive lights. My primary torch has a display that spells out how long the battery will last at the current power setting, and my backup just has a traffic light LED. Both have a beam angle of about 8° for the hotspot, and 110° for the corona/floodlight. Both lights will easily last an entire night dive on a full charge and full power, and they can be set to half and quarter power to stretch that to 2x or 4x burn time. I've never done two night dives in a row, so I've never been in a position where I was caught short.
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"Light discipline," YES! Both being spatially aware of yourself and your light, and establishing communication with lights. I've been with many and experienced diver that forgets these things, LOL! I also loved the tip about using the edge of your light to highlight interesting fish. Tarpon can be such party poopers.
Oh I’ve had a few tarpon encounters that may have influenced some of my word choice 🤣🤣🤣
The amount of times I’ve been blinded underwater…..light discipline is one of the biggest things I stress with new night divers 😂
Thanks! Two of my most besutifuö dive have been night dives, the things you see are INCREDIBLE
Yes!!! 🙌
Totally agree! Some of the best dives you can do!
You got me with that thumbnail!! 😮 💜
Hehe, my thumbnail artist insisted that he wanted to show darkness with something lurking. I wanted to highlight the idea of proper dive torches and other safety aspects, so it’s a little bit of a stretch of my comfort but yeah haha.
Thanks!
@@CircleHScuba 😳💙
I’m excited to get my Orcatorch for night dives next season.
Awesome video with great tips, off to the navigation video now!
Haha I’m glad you enjoyed and I truly think you’ll love the D710, it’s pretty highly recommended by a lot of people.
Enjoy the nav videos!
I have done 2 night dives in STX which were amazing.
STX, which is that? I don’t recognize it off the top of my head
@@CircleHScuba St Croix, USVI
@sevans0628 nice!!!! They’re a lot of fun, haven’t been to STX yet, I did dive St Thomas earlier this year though!
When it comes to flash light positions do you prefer hand mounted, hand held or mask mounted?
Personally not a fan of mask mounted. Handheld or hand mounted like a Goodman handle are my preferred. Handheld for recreational is fine for me. Tec diving depending on the situation I’ll want a goodman handle.
Charge your gauges with your lights before you dive into the water.
Set your lights to low output when you're diving into clear water.
In murky water, use a light with a narrow beam and preferably no corona. This will help pierce through the particulates and reduce backscatter.
Great tips!! Thanks for these!
Have you ever tried the tank marker light in the daytime in low vis? We had about 8ft visibility this past weekend in Monterey and could barely see my buddies. Wondering if this would be effective or not bright enough.
So I actually leave mine on my regulator through the yoke valve or on my cam band on my setup with my DIN reg, and it has 500+ hours, so it’s just there 😅
I haven’t specifically asked or looked to see how bright it may be in our lake conditions that can be down to 5ft of viz, I’ll try checking into that though!
@@CircleHScubaThanks, I’d appreciate if you could let me know next time you ask a buddy. 500+ hours is crazy and I like the idea of just leaving it on all the time if it works.
Another question I have is regarding lumens. For a primary light, what’s the minimum you’d recommend for rec and night diving? I’d like a small light but understand it’s a trade off with brightness.
@ChrisD624 I think it’s a bit of a preference thing but I’ve seen people say 400-700 is fine and being able to jump up to maybe 1k or more for specific situations is a nice to have.
For reference, my current video lights are 2000 lumens each in a soft wide angle beam, and so just fine. I mean more light is always better for footage, but they do perfectly fine.
I think if I HAD to put a number, 700-1000 is probably all I’d use on a normal dive and maybe some parts I’d crank it up some depending on what I needed. Your eyes adjust underwater at night like they do during the day too, so it depends on ambient light from the moon and such as well
@ChrisD624 oh and yes I’ll definitely ask!
@@ChrisD624 There's no single correct answer to the lumen question. It greatly depends on how the light distributes the lumen.
A narrow beam 500 lumen is brighter than a 1000 lumen floodlight. Lumen describes the total amount of light it outputs. Candella is the measure of brightness.
Besides night-dives I like night-snorkeling with my snorkeling certified children in the Red-Sea (Dahab to be exactly). With two flashlights and a camera we see a lot of sea-life, like Lion-fishes, octopuses, calamaris, bluespotted stingray's, thousands of small fishes and even morenes. They and me like it a lot.
Before I made a lot of night-dives, sometimes it looked like hoovering above the moonsurface. On my youtube channel I posted two video's of nightdives, One with a spanish dancer (red snale) and one of to morenes hugging each other
hey, you're spamming the channel right now, haha. I'm going to delete the duplicate posts so you don't get flagged for spam :D
@@CircleHScuba Sorry, I posted a comment and it was gone, I tried again, and it was gone too, that why the test. I still don't seed any comments 😞 after a while my comments shows up. I deleted them direct
I see your latest comment@@panditreuvers so I removed duplicates, haha. Probably just a UA-cam bug :)
I'll reply to it now
I told my girl I was going night diving and she asked me if I was suicidal 🤣 any ways great video and thanks for the preparation 👍
Haha you’ll have a blast!
Night dive!? It seems like an astronauts EVA!
Which makes it even more cool! Haha
Hell yeah, when I think of it that way it makes night diving 100x cooler
It is haha, super cool
I know it’s against standards, but I don’t dive with tank markers. My buddies light is much more obvious than that tiny LED. I really don’t think they’re necessary if you’re carrying redundant gear
I think it’s just nice to have the light behind them as well and it can be a low power surface marker as well.
I hear you, but with how cheap they are I think it’s worth securing personally. No downside to it if it’s no to low maintenance, water activated, etc 🤷♂️
I'm afraid of the Abyss because it's dark and it's full of scary sea creatures
I think it would be beautiful to see some of those creatures!
too much sponsorship
Thanks for this, it’s honestly good feedback. The video is more on night diving and you do need a torch, so talking about features of a torch and their torch happens to have those features felt pretty natural to me. I think there’s about 60 seconds total of orcatorch talk on the 11 minute video, but perhaps even that was too much.
Do you have any suggestions on how I could’ve presented a needed tool (dive torch) that would’ve felt better? I mean, the “sponsor” aspect is they sent me the torch and I had the choice to do what I wanted, so again, just discussing good torch properties and why you need a primary and backup, felt natural and something I would’ve done regardless.
@@CircleHScuba For me personally the balance seemed fine. Orca torches are good torches. Reliable and not too expensive.
I personally went for Apeks torches as I liked their approach to creating dive lights. My primary torch has a display that spells out how long the battery will last at the current power setting, and my backup just has a traffic light LED. Both have a beam angle of about 8° for the hotspot, and 110° for the corona/floodlight.
Both lights will easily last an entire night dive on a full charge and full power, and they can be set to half and quarter power to stretch that to 2x or 4x burn time. I've never done two night dives in a row, so I've never been in a position where I was caught short.
I really want to try the Apeks ones some time, they seem great too!
Thanks for the extra feedback too, I appreciate it!