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I like the idea, but Amazon shows a million types of 3M comfort grip gloves. What type are you diving with?simple 3M Comfort Grip work gloves
If things go that bad you can just as well drop your fixed blade knife from your trembling hands. I found one such dagger on the bottom and I still wonder what had happened to the original owner. Did he drop it while being eaten by a tiger shark or was he kidnapped by Somali pirates who had even bigger knives, maybe even machetes?! But never mind, I found it in 30 ft at the Old Airport, Kona, Hawaii. Likely, just another macho man got tangled in his own dive flag string and had to cut it urgently to free himself...I would not trust myself to be able to open a folder in a high stress situation - fixed blade all the way - and a blunt tipped one at that. 2" blade seems appropriate for all applications...that I may encounter.
If things go that bad you can just as well drop your fixed blade knife from your trembling hands. I found one such dagger on the bottom and I still wonder what had happened to the original owner. Did he drop it while being eaten by a tiger shark or was he kidnapped by Somali pirates who had even bigger knives, maybe even machetes?! But never mind, I found it in 30 ft at the Old Airport, Kona, Hawaii. Likely, just another macho man got tangled in his own dive flag string and had to cut it urgently to free himself...
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The highlight of the classroom training, for me, was when we learned about the equipment (or, as we scuba veterans say, the "gear"). Your basic diving outfit is a mask and flippers, plus the breathing apparatus, which you can rent. But there are all kinds of other neat gear objects you can get, the neatest one, as far as I'm concerned, being: a knife. All my life I've wanted an excuse to wear a knife, and here I have found a sport where it is actually encouraged. "Diving knives are practical tools, " states the PADI course manual, "providing you with a means to measure, pry, dig, cut and pound under water." But the REAL advantage, which the manual fails to note, is that you can wear your knife strapped to your leg.
There's something about striding around with a knife strapped to your leg that makes you feel exceedingly James Bondlike. If you can keep a little secret, I will confess to you that right at this very moment, as I write these words, I have my knife strapped on. Just in case somebody comes along and, for example, tries to cut my word processor cord. As Ray Lang put it, during one of his colorful diving anecdotes: "You never can tell when the inevitable is gonna happen."
- Dave Barry: Blub Story - a very deep experience
Bmoogle ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
If things go that bad you can just as well drop your fixed blade knife from your trembling hands. I found one such dagger on the bottom and I still wonder what had happened to the original owner. Did he drop it while being eaten by a tiger shark or was he kidnapped by Somali pirates who had even bigger knives, maybe even machetes?! But never mind, I found it in 30 ft at the Old Airport, Kona, Hawaii. Likely, just another macho man got tangled in his own dive flag string and had to cut it urgently to free himself...
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I like the idea, but Amazon shows a million types of 3M comfort grip gloves. What type are you diving with?