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Lighting & Torches
Illuminate Your Dive with Confidence and Clarity
Discover how our specialized underwater lighting gear enhances safety, visibility, and enjoyment in the demanding conditions of UK waters.
Reliable Primary Canister Lights
Our robust canister lights deliver consistent, high-lumen output for extended dives, ensuring you never lose sight in murky or deep waters.
Compact Backup Torches
Compact and lightweight backup torches provide essential secondary illumination, giving divers peace of mind in unexpected low-light moments.
Advanced Video and Strobe Lights
Specialized video and strobe lights enhance underwater imaging and signaling, making them perfect for technical and recreational divers alike.
Primary Lights
Penetrate the Gloom
In the crystal clear waters of the tropics, a light is an accessory. In the UK, below 20 metres, it is a necessity. Whether you are descending onto a Channel wreck or exploring a slate mine, natural light disappears fast. You need a “sun” that you can take with you. However, power is nothing without focus.
In our often turbid, nutrient-rich waters, a wide beam is useless—it simply illuminates the particulate matter right in front of your face, creating a wall of white “fog.” Our primary lights are selected for their ability to punch through murky water. We prioritise units with a tight spot beam (typically 6 to 8 degrees) that focuses the energy into a piercing column of light, allowing you to signal your buddy and navigate back to the shotline clearly.
Streamlined Safety
These lights are designed to be compact. They should be clipped to a shoulder D-ring using a bolt snap, tucked away against your harness until needed. Despite their size, they offer enough emergency illumination to safely exit the wreck or ascend the line.
We stock models that run on standard batteries (like AA or CR123) as well as rechargeable options, ensuring you can easily swap power sources on a trip. Whether you are an open water diver or a trimix explorer, never enter the water without reliable, redundant illumination.
Canister vs. Handheld
For the recreational diver, we stock high-output, rugged handheld torches with aerospace-grade aluminium bodies capable of surviving a knock against a steel hull. For the technical and wreck diver, we offer dedicated umbilical light (or canister system) options.
By moving the battery weight to your waist, these systems offer significantly extended burn time—crucial for decompression dives—and a lightweight head mounted on a Goodman handle. This allows for hands-free operation, letting you run a reel or manage buoyancy while maintaining illumination. With rechargeable Li-ion power and reliable magnetic switch mechanisms that work with thick drygloves, these lights are built for the dark zone. “Don’t bring a candle to a gunfight.”
Backup Lights
Redundancy Is Not Optional
There is a saying in technical diving: “Two is one, and one is none.” If you are inside a wreck or deep inside a cave system and your primary light fails, you are in an immediate emergency. Your backup torch is your insurance policy. It needs to work—every single time.
We select backup lights based on two criteria: simplicity and reliability. Complex switches can fail or be knocked on accidentally. That is why many of our backup units feature a robust twist bezel mechanism—mechanical, fail-safe, and impossible to break.
Explore Essential Dive Lighting
An overview of underwater lighting solutions for UK diving conditions.
Primary Canister Lights
Discover the features and benefits of reliable main lighting for deep dives.
Backup Dive Torches
Insights into compact, dependable backup torches for safety and convenience.
Video and Strobe Lights
Learn about versatile lighting options for filming and signaling underwater.
Bring the Colour Back to the Rust
UK waters are atmospheric, moody, and—without artificial light—monochromatic. As you descend, water absorbs colour; red is gone by 5 metres, orange by 10. Without powerful lighting, your footage will be nothing but green shadows. To capture the true majesty of a Scapa Flow battleship or a colorful jewel anemone reef, you need serious video lumens.
Managing the Scatter
Unlike primary lights, video lights require a wide flood beam with no hot spots to ensure the frame is evenly lit. However, lighting in silty water presents a challenge: backscatter. This occurs when the light hits particles in front of the lens, ruining the shot.
We supply comprehensive tray systems and strobe arms using standard ball mounts. These allow you to position your lights far away from the camera lens, illuminating the subject from the side and keeping the water in front of the lens dark. Our lights feature high CRI (Colour Rendering Index) ratings to accurately reproduce the vibrant colours of marine life and rust. Whether you are shooting 4K lighting for a documentary or using a GoPro compatible setup, we have the tools to light up the dark.