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| Originally Posted by Lou Why would you be trying to preserve your night vision whilst using bloody great HID torches? 
Yellow is great for being seen on the surface, but it isn't a cool colour, and visibility at the surface is not really something that I have ever seen considered by many divers, but especially not in DIR discussions. It probably falls into the same camp as EPIRBS, flags and PLB's. If you need them then you have done something wrong earlier and should have been concentrating on avoiding doing that, rather than how you get out of the final poo. |
Aw come on. Use that argument once too often and we would say goodbye to ditchable weight, seatbelts, airbags, O2, Deco chambers, ABS, guards on machines, ropes for climbers etc etc.
You're right about the torches too - if losing night vision was a problem you'd have to fit a red filter to it.
Here's a yellow suit in otherwise complete darkness, illuminated by a HID, note there's no bloom in the video, as you'd expect if that was going to be a problem.
I think it's just fashion, pure & simple.
Baaaaah baaaaaah.
And don't forget, this was fashionable once:
How cool are
those black suits?