News, Travel & Events

Staff · Issue 102, May/Jun 2018 · pp. 5–13

Products mentioned: Orcalight, Pindito liveaboard, Salaya Beach Houses, Wildscreen Photo Story Panda Award

News, Travel & Events Basking Shark Scotland (who are also known as Dive Oban & Argyll) have successfully completed highly successful trials of their new lighting system. They have invested in Orcalight technology, a surface based umbilical light system which puts out around 85,000 lumens of light in our cooler water temperatures. During late winter, many night diving trips have been run where the lights hang a few metres above the deck of the S.S Breda, a popular wreck lying close to their base in Oban. Divers were very impressed by the ethereal conditions by lighting up the wreck, making an interesting new way of photographing the wreck. With the deck in around 12m it’s a perfect depth for such an undertaking at night. Previously using battery based lights, they have been running blacro / blackwater night dives with a variety of new and interesting beasties to capture hanging over the …