Originally Posted By: Russ
Having been on a large Navy ship that lost power (and generators) at sea, I started carrying a flashlight all the time -- very useful item.

These days with good LED lights that run forever on a pair of AA batteries, it's a small item that would be fairly discrete. Take a few spare batteries too; after a few days even a very good light running on a low setting would run down. Again, small item, no brainer.


Spare batteries seem like a good idea even with energy sipping LED lights but I've started shifting to toward putting in fresh set of high-capacity lithium cells, AA or AAA cells, and foregoing the bulk and weight of the spares.