What's your knife preference for diving. a.k.a. show off your knives.

[Subcooled]

Now a little more serious answer...

I have carried a

• line cutter (for guide lines of course),
• classical short blade blunt tip dive knife made of stainless steel and with a proper serrated edge (on search & recovery dives with a line tender; a longer blade would have been better, though),
• wire cutter (underwater dumps) and
• pocket sized twig cutter (when I was diving in the crowns of trees)
• secondary cutting device (as needed)

The cutting device of choice always reflects the dive at hand and the anticipated risks. Most often it is a simple line cutter, not a knife. Hence, I cannot tell which one would be my favorite.

 

[Sbiriguda]

@happy-diver
I am curious about the tool in the second picture you posted. It looks like a warhammer or an axe. May I ask how do you use it and why is It shaped like that?

Apart from the blade that is supposedly used 'like a sickle' there are other parts if this object I can't quite understand

 

[happy-diver]

Mate I can't remember if it's a Dacor or US Divers

but the hammer bit at the top is for your buddys thumbs when they touch too much stuff
and the front part is to pry them out of tough spots
and then the hatchet is for when your buddy gets too close or if the pry part doesn't work


I hope this helps.
always wanted to say that

 

[Sbiriguda]

LOL
Ok. That's cool I believe that in a duel with a guy armed with the usual Rambo style calf knife you are likely to win using your war axe

 

[Bycatch]

I have lost a few hand tools and miscellaneous bits of hardware, but they were company owned.

Lol
company owned would exsplain why you lost them

 

[Pressurehead]

The 2 at the top are what is use now, victorinox knife [from the kitchen] on my belt , the small one in a sheath on my inflator hose, the large ones are only 2 of some I have not used in many years, sold 2 large knifes last week on ebay.

 

[Ana]

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The large ones are only 2 of some I have not used in many years, sold 2 large knifes last week on ebay.

The one on the left has a Randall look to it, like the handle very much.

Some commercial fishermen in New England told me about the vixtorinox endurance years ago, so I got half a dozen on a sale, but I lack control with the narrow handle.

 

[CT-Rich]

I have a ceramic line cutter on my BCD and a BFK on my leg. It makes a good hammer, a decent chisel and a terrible blade. I haven’t tried to sharpen it in years... it does keep air from collecting in the leg of my dry suit.

 

[Ghost95]

What is that knife laying up against, AA shells?

 

[CT-Rich]

What is that knife laying up against, AA shells?

Yes, I was using it for scale. Super useful unless you need to cut something....