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Pro tip: clipping a cheap bicycle light to my bailout bottle fixed my gas planning on night dives
I do a lot of inspection work on the intake screens at the power plant outside Baton Rouge, and most of it happens between 10pm and 2am when the flow is low. For two years I kept losing track of my gas math at depth because I could not read my SPG without shining my main light on it, which meant pointing a 1500 lumen beam at my own face and killing my night vision in the worst possible spot. Last month I dug out an old $12 clip-on bike light, the kind you put on your handlebars, and strapped it to the valve on my bailout bottle. It puts out a soft red glow that is just enough to see the gauge and my dive watch without wiping out my eyes, and now I can check my pressure every few minutes without breaking my rhythm. My supervisor laughed at the hack until he saw the clock and noticed I had stopped fumbling around on the last three jobs. Cheap, dumb, and it works. What little gear hacks have you all stuck with that would never show up in a training manual?
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