Proper Light

As I don't fancy eating my body-weight in carrots on a weekly basis, I
figure that one of my next purchases is going to be a good
torch/light/lamp/call it what you will.

Unlike other recent posters I have absolutely no idea on this, none
whatsoever. The diving I've done up until now has been relatively
unchallenging and my little Ikelite PCLite has been just fine. However I
fancy doing some night diving, want to be better prepared for the dark and
sh*tty stuff that happens in these here waters and just want to be able to
see the colours of stuff at depth better...

I'm leaning towards umbilical (small in the hand) and HID (for brightness)
at the moment but as I say I'm open to all suggestions.

The only thing is I don't want to go really stupid cash-wise...

Ta

CAS
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"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> As I don't fancy eating my body-weight in carrots on a weekly basis, I
> figure that one of my next purchases is going to be a good
> torch/light/lamp/call it what you will.
>
> Unlike other recent posters I have absolutely no idea on this, none
> whatsoever. The diving I've done up until now has been relatively
> unchallenging and my little Ikelite PCLite has been just fine. However I
> fancy doing some night diving, want to be better prepared for the dark and
> sh*tty stuff that happens in these here waters and just want to be able to
> see the colours of stuff at depth better...
>
> I'm leaning towards umbilical (small in the hand) and HID (for brightness)
> at the moment but as I say I'm open to all suggestions.
>
> The only thing is I don't want to go really stupid cash-wise...
>
> Ta
>
> CAS
> --
> Temperature @ Stoney? Find it or share it @
> http://stoneytemps.calumscott.me.uk/
>
>

Greenforce arrow 12 with tristar 3 led head, or pro head (35watts). Around
£260 - £300.
Or Greenforce F2 with above.

I couldn't resist reviving this post by Ewan Rowell (hope you don't mind)
originally to the inspiration NG, which diffused some lengthy and heated debate
on different torches.


It was one of those grey (4800 kelvin), stormy Sundays
that sneaks out of the night, lurks like a school
bully then fades away again when playtime is over.
The boys had long since dismantled their gear and
drifted off.
The waves beating against the sea-wall felt like my
hangover.
I reached into my desk drawer and pulled out a bottle
of Lagavullin, found a relatively clean glass and half-
filled it.
Letting the single malt roll over my tongue, I leant
foward, switching on the desk light (40w, 2800k) and
read through the bill from Welch-Allyn, desperately
looking for loopholes.

The door opened and a shaft of sunlight (950 lumens,
6200k) struck my eyes as I looked up.
She was leaning against the frame and the light from
behind her (possibly a wide-angle, suitable only for
video) made her look like Kate Winslett in one of my
nocturnal fantasies.

"Are you Marlowe?"
"That depends on who's asking."

She wasn't tall - I'd guess a Gates Sizes FSM, but she
went in and out in all the right places, so some
serious modifications would be required to the
standard fitting, and the curves between those places
would make the trilaminate-cutter weak at the knees.

She shimmered over to the chair in front of the desk
and I had to put the glass down because it was
building waves as big as those outside.
She had the kind of walk that even Force Fins couldn't
spoil.

"Mind if I sit down?"
"It's a free country."
She narrowed her huge green eyes and gave me a look
that would have frozen an Apeks first stage.
"Not while the workers fail to control the means of
production."

She sat down and, as she crossed her legs, I thought
she'd probably need something more flexible than a
conventional membrane suit.
This girl could cause a bigger stir in the club than
when I'd turned up with an Inspiration.

She reached into her pocket.
"You got a light?"
"Sure babe," I replied. "I've got a cute little HID
that gives a brilliant blue beam but has to stay on
all the time, there's one in the nose of my scooter
that's bright enough to burn a way out of wrecks, I
wear back-ups under each arm, and a dinky little one
on my mask strap so that I can read my PO2 in the
dark."
She lifted a cigarette.
"A wise-guy eh?"
She had a face like an angel, a smile that could melt
a glacier (a handy person to have around for those
winter dives in the quarry). I swear she'd have even
looked good behind Bob's OC/CC mouthpiece.
"...err no .. I just misunderstood."

I found the box with which I'd been melting the strap
ends of my harness and lit her cigarette.
She inhaled deeply and urgently - like a Halcyon diver.
"My husband is lying to me."
"Everyone lies. Look at all the wild claims these lamp
manufacturers come up with..."
"He keeps wandering off."
"Have you tried a buddy-line?"
"That was a pathetic joke."
"I know, but I''m a diver, not an author of film-noir
novels."

Her eyes lit up like a Custom Divers after a re-build.
With looks like hers, she must have queues of guys
wanting to spend an exciting night.
(... and I'm not talking about a dive on the Golden
Gift at Oban)
"You're a diver?"
"The best baby. Deep wrecks, caves, closed-circuit
trimix - you name it."
"... but Chris says you're a big girl's blouse who
wets himself when he goes below 20 metres, Mike says
you've never been in a cave and Jim says you only dive
in the pool. and that's when there's girls at
training."
"You know the guys?"
"Sure. I'm in their fantasies too."

"This is all going horribly wrong."
"Yes Ewan you're about to wake up."
"Noooooooo"

KEYBOARD!

"Tricky" <scubatricky@nospam.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Greenforce arrow 12 with tristar 3 led head, or pro head (35watts). Around
> £260 - £300.
> Or Greenforce F2 with above.

Where are the smileys? to show you're joking - right?

"Frank Bruce" <fbruce@cruelmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Tricky" <scubatricky@nospam.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:c0j181$s01$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >
> > Greenforce arrow 12 with tristar 3 led head, or pro head (35watts).
Around
> > £260 - £300.
> > Or Greenforce F2 with above.
>
> Where are the smileys? to show you're joking - right?
>
>

Joking? About what? Greenforce make perfectly respectable torches!

Scubatricky