Have you used your dive knife?

[Mako Mark]

rope and net off a propeller. I tossed the dive knife and used a sharpened kitchen knife that the captain used for cutting up fish. I have found that most dive knives are designed for looks not function.

I have managed to hack open fish traps in Thailand to let the reef fish go, but they are made of chicken wire.

 

[miketsp]

Zodiac tether rope wrapped tightly around prop - shears would have been no good whatsoever. Collecting up fishing line from reefs. Feeding sea urchins to fish in shallow waters - some areas they are just a pain, breed by the million and get washed up on the beach, people collect them by the sackfull. Screwing & unscrewing shackle pins.

 

[SueMermaid]

Diving in NJ is an adventure in monofilament entanglement. I used my knife three times in one dive when I did the RR bridge last year. My legs kept getting bound together by fishing line.

 

[pipedope]

I commonly use a knife or shears during a dive.

In general I use shears about 3 times as often as the knife but I generally carry both.

Less than 1% of the time will I go in the water without at least one, knife or shears. If I take only one it is usually the shears.

 

[Green_Manelishi]

yes. picture should be attached.
also had to cut myself free from mono and other
entanglements.

 

[diver_paula]

My dive knife has mostly been used to cut tomato slices for sandwiches during surface intervals.

Paula

 

[nativenarcosis]

I had a threatening pack of weenies I had to deal with one time during a surface interval.

 

[downunderjenn]

I've cut monofilament, and I used it to sharpen my pencil to my arm slate. Also, useful for prying bad o-ring off a tank.

 

[johlar]

I've cut monofilament, and I used it to sharpen my pencil to my arm slate. Also, useful for prying bad o-ring off a tank.

We were between dives yesterday having difficulty opening the string cheese package. It was a choice between the dive knife and the fishing knife. The dive knife had never been out of it's holder so i thought it would be cleaner.

Worked fine

 

[ba_hiker]

I carried a large knife for years and never used it underwater. I did use it to spread goop on bread or crackers on a boat, to cut a steak after a dive, and to clean fish. I switched to a pair of shears and dove with them for a couple of years untill the pivot point rusted shut. Never used them.

Now i carry a very small knife and a z-knife. I check them on occasion, to make sure they are functional. I dive mostly in open pacific water and have not had any encounters with monofilimant (thankfully). A new pair of shears and the big knife stay in the dive bag mostly.