Great Emergency Signalling Mirror

[Sarah]

We've all heard stories of divers being lost at sea, the dive boat forgot them, etc.

As part of a small kit of emergency type of kit, here's a rescue signalling mirror that I keep in my BC in it's own plastic ziplock pouch. It has a lanyard on it.



The instructions are shown on the back as below:




Don't forget to attach a brightly colored lanyard maide out of something that floats and is waterproof like polypropylene, althoigh one a little thicker than shown below.


This mirror as well as an awesome set of really good visual instructions can be found here

[texdiveguy]

When ness. I just carry in a pocket an old CD or DVD,,,will work great....and free$$.

[hbh2oguard]

or just use a knive

[hbh2oguard]

check that link out.... that guy is just a little too into himself

[BillW]

As a SAR pilot, we did some tests with CDs and DVDs a few years ago and they really make terrible signaling devices. While they appear bright at close range the diffusion and odd colors created by the signal pits limit their effective range and they aren’t nearly as noticeable from the air as a clean real mirror surface.

[hbh2oguard]

by any chance did you test a knife?

[Zero]

The old OMS knife used to be highly polished for this purpose. Ive never tried one in the open but under lights it put off a bright reflection.

Matt

[hbh2oguard]

yea my bcd knife is dull but leg knife is shinny so I know it would reflect well, but not too sure about it in the water.

[dalehall]

My DAN tag is encased in a reflective "thingy." Hopefully, I'll never have to use the tag or the reflector. But, I have them both, just in case.

[santelmo]

We've all heard stories of divers being lost at sea, the dive boat forgot them, etc.

just like in the movie "open waters" scary.... since it was a true story i tried searching for the pictures that was taken from their u/w cam (that was found inside a shark) but could not find it...

anyway, this is a nice dive/emergency accessory... i want one....