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From: "Cam Banks" <cam_banks@ho*.co*>
To: TonyB@ta*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: what to do with the light cord
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 10:10:45 PST
The niterider was merely trying to return to where it belongs, at the bottom 
of the sea. ;-)  Shame on you for interfering with its quest, and it was a 
free one at that!

Cam


>From: Tony Blanchette <TonyB@ta*.co*>
>To: "'techdiver@aquanaut.com'" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>Subject: what to do with the light cord
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:14:28 -0500
>
>I'm and open water diver and dive with NiteRiders Blackwater 3000 which I
>won at a scuba show.  The cord between the battery pack and the lighthead 
>is
>the proper length - just long enough for left handed operation.
>
>I wear the battery on my right waist strap where the cannister would go.
>I've attached a bolt snap to the light head with a piece of bicycle
>innertube and clip off the lighthead to my right chest d-ring when the 
>light
>is not in use.
>
>A couple weeks ago as i was getting back on the boat, the light cord 
>snagged
>a rung of the ladder.  When i went to lift myself on the ladder, the
>lighthead got a severe jerk.  The following week after diving i noticed the
>lighthead was flooded.
>
>The question is, "Is there already a standard way to configure the light
>cord that prevents it from flapping in the waves?"  I must have missed that
>detail when studying the available literature.
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