DM has a "Barney Fife" Moment

[diverbrian]

On my "class BC" I have my knife in a plastic sheath on the left pocket.

On my normal dive gear, I don't carry a knife as people think of one. I carry a set of trauma shears on my belt webbing and a Z-Knife (line cutter) on my left shoulder.

As to the comments..., no harm, no foul. I am inclined to agree with the "break" theory myself. My shears will hack through a LP hose with no problem. That is how I insure that I don't use hoses which fail inspection. I cut them and put them out of their misery. Anything else would have a rough time cutting the typical LP hose.

 

[jpcpat]

If you didn't see what happened, you don't really know. OTOH, "Big ego, dumb mistake" applies to me way too often. For myself, I can't see a knife accidentally cutting a hose, so I'm inclined to beleive the DM.

In any case, he real point to me is that the DM had a problem uw and handled it in a safe way, so let's learn from that.

 

[cyclical]

ehh I keep my dive knife on my upper left portion of my bc, very close to the inflator hose.... I have only taken it out on a dive once or twice.

 

[ggilmour]

Took an old hose and a zeagle knife and let me tell you unless I held the hose in both hands bent the hose over and cut upward it was not easy to get a clean cut. Also took my zeagle cutters and was able to cut through the hose fairly easily. Dont think that you could make a clean cut through a hose without significant effort.

 

[ggilmour]

Forgot to say that I was able to succesfully puncture my bc once while trying to cut myself out of a net. That made for an extremly short rush of air and a glad that was not the drysuit thought through my mind.