Dive Lights

In our local waters around Nanaimo and Central Vancouver Island, a good dive light is not optional. Even during daytime dives, light levels drop quickly with depth, and color fades fast. Reds disappear first, followed by orange and yellow, leaving much of the underwater world muted and easy to miss.

A quality dive light brings that color back to life. It lets you look into cracks and crevices, spot well-camouflaged marine life, and safely communicate with your buddy. Lights are also an essential safety tool for signaling, maintaining visual contact, and being seen in darker conditions.

Big Blue dive lights

We carry the full lineup of Big Blue dive lights, a brand trusted by recreational, technical, and underwater video divers alike. Big Blue lights are known for their durability, brightness, and wide range of options to suit different diving styles.

Choosing the right light

Big Blue offers several categories of lights, each designed for a specific purpose.

Backup lights
Compact, lightweight lights designed to live in a pocket or clipped off as a redundancy. Ideal for night dives, overhead environments, or low-visibility conditions where a reliable backup is critical.

Primary handheld lights
Powerful and easy to use, these lights are perfect for most recreational and advanced divers. They provide strong illumination for exploring reefs, walls, wrecks, and kelp forests, while also being effective for buddy signaling.

Canister lights
Built for longer dives and technical applications, canister lights offer extended burn times and high output. These are popular with wreck, cave, and technical divers who need consistent, reliable light throughout the dive.

Video and photo lights
Designed with wide, even beams and high color rendering, these lights are ideal for underwater photography and video. They help restore natural colors and eliminate harsh shadows, making them a great choice for content creators and photographers.

Why brightness matters

Big Blue lights range from compact models around 250 lumens to powerful systems producing up to 30,000 lumens. Choosing the right brightness depends on your diving environment, depth, visibility, and whether you’re diving, signaling, or filming.

Get the right light for your dives

Our team is happy to help you compare models, beam angles, brightness levels, and burn times so you end up with a light that fits your diving style. Whether you’re night diving, exploring wrecks, filming marine life, or simply wanting to see more color underwater, a good dive light will completely change how you experience our local waters.