Kraken Hydra 12000 Wide/RGB/UV (With Screen Display)

12,000 lumens with CRI ~90 at 5600K. The Hydra 12K puts out enough to fill a wide-angle frame or light up a dark swim-through without going full throttle — which matters for battery life and for not blowing out close subjects. CRI ~90 means genuinely good colour rendition, not the washed-out greenish output you get from cheaper lights.

At the standard setting, the Hydra 12K outputs 10,000 lumens of consistent flood light. Push the dial to 120% (Turbo) for the full 12,000 lumens at a shorter burn time. The output curve is as flat as we can make it at either setting — what you set is what you get for the duration of the dive.

CRI 90 means your footage captures colours as they actually exist underwater. Reds stay red, corals hold their saturation, and you spend less time pushing white-balance sliders in post.

What sets the Hydra 12K apart from a standard video light is the WRGBU LED array — White, Red, Green, Blue, and UV channels, each independently controllable. Red preserves marine-life behaviour in low light where a white beam causes animals to scatter. UV opens up fluorescence photography — coral, nudibranchs, and scorpionfish that look completely different under UV. Blue works similarly for narrower-spectra fluorescence work.

Modes include White, Red, Green, Blue, UV, Preset (your saved mix), Disco Mode (automatic RGB cycling), and Burst.

Burst Mode — Fiber-Optic Triggered

Sync via fiber optic cable to your camera's built-in flash and the Hydra 12K fires a quick, bright pulse timed to your shutter. Recycle is fast; the limitation is flash duration. For macro work on slower subjects — nudibranchs, cleaning stations, coral detail — it produces noticeably better results than continuous light alone.