Light, which hand?

[SuPrBuGmAn]

You guys use lights?

[jeandiver]

You guys use lights?

Oh , and you just use your SUNNY personnality to light up the Karst world , you betcha dere?
Darn Panhandlers , always coming up with a different way to do things.

(right hander here)

Da Bean

[Major Restriction]

When I am setting a spool/reel or writing in my wet notes I take the light off my hand and drape it around the back of my neck, over my left shoulder and let it hang straight down.

This is what I was taught, and works well, as it keeps the light from jerking around in different directions which could be construed as an attention signal.

[ltb7733]

i use a goodman handle on my left hand, one because im left handed but mostly because when reeling back in at the end of a dive or when ever, i have a smooth beam to guide the way. as opposed to a beam going up and down every time to turn the reel with your right hand. my buddy and i differ on this, case in point, i turned around one dive to see if there was a problem because i thought i saw his light waving from behind, and he had no problem. then on a different dive he was behind and on the exit portion of the dive he wanted to show me something and i ASSummed he was just reeling up and that what was the cause of the jumping light and kinda missed/ignored it. 50' from the exit hole, maybe no big deal, maybe could have been a problem. there was no problem but now i never assume. just a slow day at work and i got time to respond. merry christmas and happy hannukha to all.

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NAUI tec says the light goes on the left hand, cannister on right waist belt. the justification is that the right hand needs to be free cause in emergencies it's the one most of us will use to initiate if not solve the problem. lefty i guess should carry the light head on right hand. to do the majority of the work. naturally i discovered pretty quickly that it just gets in the way with clipping and unclipping stages/deco and must be switched to the right hand then.

I was taught, nacd, to put light on right hand with the cord wrapped around the right arm, but to also do whatever I wanted as long as it was thought through and made sense theoretically and experientially (a la sludge). be flexible, don't blindly follow rulzzzzz.

however, this does bring to mind another thing i've been switching up. the wrist compass is affected by the computer and the light/cord. so i've taken to putting it on the left wrist all by itself, with light/cord and computer on the right wrist. when i need a wrist slate it goes on left, next to computer (because I'm a right-handed writer, and the plastic does not affect compass).

anyone other methods to account for compass deviation due to electronics? or would that be hijacking this thread?

just curious,

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[Dan Thoms]

What type of computer are you strapping to your forearm??

I dont recall any problems,. when i used a computer.
DR-HE

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What type of computer are you strapping to your forearm??

I dont recall any problems,. when i used a computer.
DR-HE

I strap on a nitek duo and a vr3. carry a backup bottom timer and depth gauge too, but it's in a pocket. the vr3 can spin the index card on the compass, but the nitek duo has no influence at all.

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[curtschu]

Lots of metal in the VR3 case it sure would move a compass. Also there would be a mag field by the cord

[Dan Thoms]

I never heard of that,.. im sure that was amusing on the first dive. lol