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Hi Frederico,
Same as Murray with the dive torch, mine doubles up as a focus light and is always mounted on top of the housing. It’s mounted with a clamp, so un-practical to disconnect, unless say I want to use it for backlighting a subject (when there’s sufficient daylight/ambient light so I don’t need it to see).
If I had like you, the occasional need to clip away my housing, then I would use a separate torch to orient myself (still leaving the focus light on the housing). Because I always have the housing close to me, then my backup dive light is the 2 strobes (they both have built-in focus lights, and I make sure not to run the batteries flat-down).
In terms of securing the housing to me, I use 2 of these lanyards (see photo). I love them, very durable (metallic cable inside) yet good elasticity when buckled-off.
At the beginning I only had one, clipped on torso D-ring (left side), which provided good flexibility to move the camera around.
When I got into rebreathers, I was very stressed about the prospect of bailing out, needing my 2 hands and full focus. So I added the right lanyard, the so that I could drop my housing in an emergency, being confident that it would dangle only 1 meter max below me.
Nowadays, rarely have the right lanyard clipped (underwater) because I am confident I can bailout quickly enough, but I do use it for long surface walks, as it allows the weight of the housing to be spread around my torso/back/hips, via the two torso D-rings (lanyards buckled-up).
I don’t think my technical diving is as engaged as yours, I usually carry 1, maximum 2 bailout tanks, so less complexity. If I was scootering though, I’d likely clip the housing on one of my sides (nipple + hips D-rings), using those lanyards.
@Silentseasnap , I believe you’re a tech diver too, you might have another way of doing things.
Curious what others, tech & non-tech divers are doing too!
