Strobe placement

[Dominic]

I'm trying to decide where my little red-blinking VIP light should live.

The shoulder is traditional, but I don't like it - too hard to see when you're horizontal.

Can anyone see any problems with fixing it to my mask strap so it lives on the back of my head? Should be visible in all situations then...

Secondly, can anyone recommend a good camera-flash type strobe - I want one for surface location in poor conditions. My last one broke...

[FOX]

<font color='#348781'>Jotron AQ4, the dogs kahunas, rated to 500m (apparently). Pricey though!

[And]

<font color='#000080'>Hi

In your dive bag?

Andy

[Mark Chase]

Why not mount it high up on the sholder. If you look at the pic below the little red thing to the left of my chin is the bottom of my strobe. The actual flashing bit is slightly above my sholder blade. Even horizontal you should be able to see it but if they cant see my 50W torch they are probably blind any way

Cant say as I have ever used it in the water I consider it a surface lost at see thing my self. IMHO People  (Apart from dive guides leading groups of divers) who use them on night dives should be hung by the ankle weights untill cured of the desire to do so again.

ATB

Mark Chase

[Dominic]

Amen! Some idiot once came into the Stanegarth hold with one of those camera-flash type strobes once, he nearly didn't make it back out alive

But the small, blinking ones are actually pretty good for silty-but-not-that-dark conditions, which I seem to find myself in quite often - too light to bother with a torch, but murky enough that increasing your visibility is a good idea.

Might look into the shoulder, but it's already crowded with D-rings &amp; backup torches

[Crisspy Fiver]

You know were im going to be cliping my gauge from now on,

thanks Mark

[MATTBIN]

Dom
long hose deployment might catch it?

Matt

[tom]

cable-tied onto the corrugated hose, somewhere near the elbow where it goes into the wing?

[Dominic]

Good point, Matt - I'll check it in the pool..

Corrugated hose has certainly got possibilities..

[MATTBIN]

I think mines up on the hose, cant actually remember, I used it at the w/e as well. Check with digger too as he has two head mounted torches and uses a long hose on his inverts.
He might be able to tell you if my strobe was visible, I could see it &nbsp; &nbsp;flashing merrily by my side through the periphery of my mask. Louigi was with us too and it was mainly for his benefit, as he hadnt done the Cove before.

Matt