The ocean is filled with amazing living creatures and is a totally mystical world. Dazzling colors are displayed naturally by many of the creatures as well as the fish, and due to light travelling through water, everything usually becomes gray or blue and these dazzling colors get filtered out. However when using artificial light, the light will travel a very short distance to an object, and directly back to the eye of the diver. Wherever the light is directed you will be able to enjoy the natural colors. Therefore the quality of a scuba light is of the utmost importance as this will affect a persons dive experience.
Diving in either low visibility or dim light or at night where you are out of the reach of the suns rays such as cave diving for instance, will definitely require a source of simulated light in order to see the beautiful surrounding environment best. The dive light which you choose will be one of three main types of light output.
The three different categories of scuba light fall under the conventional which is Halogen or Xenon, LED which is a light emitting Diode and HID which gives off a high intensity discharge. The notable difference between the three is color temperature or color of the immediate output. Conventional lights use the most energy due to them becoming far hotter and giving off white light.
When you turn a HID light on it takes a few seconds to reach full brightness, giving off a blue color due to the ballast system it runs off. On the other hand LED lights use diodes as opposed to filaments and also emit a blue light. These types of lights use far less energy as they burn cooler, and are the most durable of the three options.
As technology is constantly evolving so too will your scuba lights and it is important to keep up with the latest trends and improvements to make sure you always have the best dive light equipment currently available. Handheld scuba lights come in three main categories being primary dive lights, pockets lights and backup lights.
So if you are in the market for a scuba light you will want to be aware of the most impressive lights available especially the back-up lights.
Backup lights seem irrelevant but backups are important as they may be needed for any unexpected event. When the main source of light fails suddenly the backup is the scuba divers save in grace.