strobes

[ODDY105]

OK so I have just purchased a couple of strobe for the wife and I, getting dark and cold and like the idea of a point of reference in the darker waters around the UK.

A couple of points/questions or have you any experience of the following:
How do seals react to strobes?
Obviously electric fields attract marine animals, strobes give off these fields?

[Divemouse]

Do you mean torches or camera strobes?

[Divemouse]

Or those flashy things you wear on your shoulder?

[ODDY105]

Flashy thing ( and I am well aware of the general concesus associsated to them)

[Divemouse]

We used to use those for emergencies on night dives etc, but not for anything else. Might be a good idea if you get separated in low vis, but is really just a huge annoyance for buddies - steady torch beam much less disorienting. Didn't really seem to attract anything, more like a repellant!

[ODDY105]

that real it we dove the farns some time ago and realy it is just a safety thing for surface attention.
Thanks

[Jenkins]

Flashing stobles underwater really piss me off.

[Narked@50]

that real it we dove the farns some time ago and realy it is just a safety thing for surface attention.
Thanks

Here's and idea - only switch them on if you get stranded on the surface

James

[RogerViking]

'strokes' you say yeah.. a gang load of em on here