EQUIPMENT TIP: DIVE LIGHT

Thanks to reader Tom Daly for a tip that can save divers a few bucks. He reports that he’s located an identical light to the 3 “C” cell Pelican dive light, catalog #2000c, and its replacement bulbs (which retail for $36.95 and $13.95, respectively, at his local dive shop) at — who would have thunk it — Home Depot. He reports that it’s being marketed there as the HubbelLite Flashlight 3003-C — at half the cost. Home Depot sells the HubbelLite for $18.95 and its replacement bulb for $8.97, which, as Daly notes, is “quite a cost savings.” We thank him for divulging a secret he says he’s “been saving for fear that if it got out, the price would go up.”