swimming in the dark is definitely scary…kudos for doing it…
attach a small buoy to your ankle so you drag it with a strobe light attached to the buoy.
the drag from the buoy would help with training too! sucks to be that guy that has to do it tho! lol
As others have said, ignoring the stupidity, go to any SCUBA shop or online and they will have a bunch of underwater lights.
Find a freshwater lake and swim away. All you have to worry about are the bass fishermen blasting down the lake in the dark,at 60 mph. I swim a 750 meter course in the early AM, often before daylight in the summer months. It borders a swimming area near a dam, near the shore, with very little to no boat traffic. Its kind of cool swimming and watching the daybreak.
Anyone know of such a thing?
Some friends and I want to do some open water swims early in the a.m. (before dawn).
It’s on a bay and there are fishing boats that go out early from time to time (although it’s a very quite area).
Was thinking it might be a good idea to have some sort of light source during the swim (maybe attach to the back of goggles strap)?
Then again----probably will create more curiosity than anything and have a boat come over to us.
-YT
I have probably a 1000 hours of open water swiming experience in the dark (think military). You need special skills and training to do this safely. My guess is if you had them you would not be asking about a light, which makes this a bad idea right from the start. With that said…
The first thing you are taught is that you are invisible in the water. You need to think that way and act that way. If you do that then getting run over is not (normally) an issue. You can not light yourself up enough to be safely seen on the water in the dark. Hell, a submarine has a problem with being seen in the dark. As the USCG captain pointed out above, night time navigation is a high skill endevour.
I do admire your determination. Open water swimming usually gives me the creeps in broad daylight.