Cutting Tools

[Anti-Hero]

Let me clarify because I think you read me wrong due to my lack of info given...I have only ever USED shears underwater and I carry a knife as well. I would cut myself free with shears to answer your question about the hook. I wouldn't use a knife for sure.:11doh: My comment was directed specifically towards the use and need for a knife and not shears. I didn't make that very clear in my post. The knife, as I said, is only used for fruit and I doubt if I will ever need to use it for anything else.

I also dive a spot with tons of fishing line and fishing activity from shore. I have NEVER been hooked by a fishermen yet in 5 years. The viz is rarely better than 5 feet. Call it luck if you will...maybe my number is up...

My point is that I can't imagine a situation where I would need a knife to save my life in a recreational diving scenario. If I need a knife to save me say in Bonaire while diving a reef, then I am an idiot and it's not a knife I truly need...it's brains. (that was my point)

 

[scubadobadoo]

Back at ya! Cheers!

I have long wanted to dive Monterey!!!! For the record, I would even dive it with a knife.

 

[Puffer Fish]

Honestly Puffer, I am a nice guy and don't start fights here.

EDIT: I see the problem here...I used the word "you" instead of saying "if a diver" or "if one" and Anti thought I meant him personally. I didn't mean to direct my response at him personally but rather was speaking of divers in general. My bad. I didn't mean to make it seem like he was an idiot if he used a knife or anything for that matter. Make sense? Still, lots of assumption taking place here.

Thanks for understanding. Appreciate your making that comment also.


We are trying to make this area a nicer place to ask questions but to your point, being human, we don't alway type exactly what we mean. My concern was just the "if you do, then you probably need brains more"... both for Anti-Hero, and for anyone that only carries a knife (which is a lot of people).

Your posts are clearly of value to this thread, and to people that just stop by to read thru the thread. With any luck, both you and Anit-Hero will be responsible for a few more divers carrying shears.. at least I hope so.

 

[captndale]

This is a debate that will never end because each diver comes with their own different experiences and preconceptions and attitudes about knives in general.

I have carried a folding knife in my pocket daily since I was about the age of five. I carry a Swiss army knife and use it for all sorts of things on a daily basis. To me, a knife is a sort of universal tool and I feel naked without one on my person. I hate having to put my knife in carry-on to fly.

When I dive I carry two knives and a pair of shears. Occasionally I will also carry wire cutters. Rarely have I needed to use a tool to free myself from entanglement, but when I have had to do so I have probably used a knife and a pair of shears an equal number of times. More often, I use a knife as a tool to cut line used for moorings, or as a pry-bar to move pieces of wreckage in a shipwreck.