What to carry instead of knife

[Wayward Son]

Will that cut kevlar fishing line? Most knives won't. Shears will.

 

[Mo2vation]

I carry a sharp, small, blunt tipped knife. It remains left of center on my waist strap so I can reach it with both hands. Anyone want to explain why this wouldn't do the job with line and other entanglements? I do not frequently get caught in pennies underwater.

I understand shears are tough... but what sort of environment are you bringing these into?

Thanks,

-V

Always on the front of the belt - as it should be.

The Shears are in the DS / WS pocket, and also go everywhere. I'm confident my knife could cut about anything I'd be entangled in. Its better for rope than the shears, but the shears are much better for fishing line (one handed cut, as mentioned earlier.)

Both are always on every dive.

---
Ken

 

[Santa]

Fisp wisher ... wisp fisher ... no can't say that ... Fish-perer?

From the goats point of view would that make you the goatee?

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Fisp wisher ... wisp fisher ... no can't say that ... Fish-perer?

From the goats point of view would that make you the goatee?

LOL! Yes! :14:

 

[dpthdiver]

Opps... replied to wrong thread.

 

[Charlie99]

3 years, hundreds of dives, same shears.

Tha'ts pretty much my experience. I have them in a sheath, clipped off to a bungee inside a BCD pocket. Most of the time, I just rinse the BCD and leave the stuff in the pockets. Every year or two I throw the shears in a glass of coke for a couple of days to remove most of the rust.

 

[RadRob]

Sorry to digress, but I will not be diving with goats or chihuahuas any more. I just read this article and decided it is a bad idea.

Animals Gone Wild: A billy goat reportedly attacked Zimbabwe's strong-arm President Robert Mugabe during a gas-station stop en route to the mountain resort of Nyanga in December, injuring Mugabe's scrotum and large bowel. And Fremont, Calif., police officer Paul Rush, who was escorting a teenager home from a traffic stop in January, reported to a hospital emergency room afterward because five chihuahuas had attacked him at the front door of the teen's home, biting his ankles. [ZimDaily.com, 12-21-05] [San Jose Mercury News, 12-30-05]

They must have tried to take them diving.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

OMG... I'm glad I got rid of that goat. He was a primadonna, anyway. The last straw was when he ate my defogging solution. We had a luau that night. Now I dive with a small knife wire-tied to my inflator hose.

 

[MoonWrasse]

Will that cut kevlar fishing line? Most knives won't. Shears will.

Mine does.

Good luck slicing up that goat of yours with shears

 

[Wayward Son]

I carry both a knife & shears. Doubles my odds of cutting something that needs cutting, including the goat.