Big Knife Poll

Where do you stand?

  • All For It

    Votes: 17 16.2%
  • Neutral

    Votes: 26 24.8%
  • Not For Me

    Votes: 62 59.0%

  • Total voters
    105
  • Poll closed .

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I have a really big knife but I don't use it for diving...

Knives of all sizes and shapes have a place. I don't happen to think big knives are necessary in most instances they are marketed for but that's a personal decision. I don't even have a fixed blade "knife" on my dive kit, just some sheers and a line cutter, which I don't consider a knife because the blade is almost completely protected.
 
I answered 'not for me' as I don't spearfish or hunt (I carry a standard sized Wekona), but I'm also neutral. If you need a big knife, then carry one.
 
As big a knife as I can possibly carry.
 
Having grown up watching Sea Hunt, I always worried that an enemy submarine might send a bunch of spies out the airlock or I might uncover a ring of underwater drugs smugglers and have to defend myself. Over the years I have not encountered these issues as much as I expected so the size of my dive knife has shrank proportianally.
 
I prefer to carry a sword, any ninja Diver worth the salt water should. mine is large and proud. :wink:
 
Neutral, I don't care how others set up their kit.

I have been wearing the same BFK for over three decades, it has come in very handy and I would probably swim in a circle if it was not strapped on my calf. I also carry a trilobite and shears, then add any other implement of destruction I need on a dive.



Bob
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I may be old, but I'm not dead yet.
 
I had some Kydex dive sheaths made for my Cold Steel Magnum Tanto (8" blade), my Ek Commando Knife (6.5" blade), my Cold Steel No. 1 (7" blade), even my Cold Steel Trailmaster bowie (9.5" blade). Then I asked myself, "Self, you're not a soldier any more and even when you were a soldier, you weren't a combat diver, so what the heck are you going to do with those big ass blades underwater?" I don't have any reply to my own query, so I only carry a Spyderco folding knife on my BC.

Now, if some chicks were to dig big knives, then I'd start strappin' them big mamajamas on my calf.
 
In my kitchen? I have an enormous knife! A meat cleaver I can barely lift. But
for diving, a little serrated knife with a blunt tip that DSS supplies with the BCs.
 
I carry 2 knives one small and sharp one big thick and old that I use for as a small crowbar and hammer. This has worked for me but I'm all for whatever works for others.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/peregrine/

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