Knife or shear what do you use

[trymixdiver]

I am curious to know what everone is using. Guess i will start, i am using a shear because i am wearing viking dry suit i didnt want to take any chances carring a knife.

any drysuit divers using a knife?

thx all

TMD

[Lost Yooper]

I carry a little knife on my waist strap, and I have shears clipped to a bungie loop in my pocket.

Mike

[Ari]

3" blade, blunt tip, one sharp and one jaged edge.

Shears are next on my shopping list.

Ari :)

[jetblast00]

I dive dry, and use a Gerber river shorty blunt tip
http://www.uws.com/UWS_GERBER_RiverRunner.html

it's not really for diving, I've had it because I kayak alot and that's my river knife, but I think it makes a great dive knife too. There are no moving locks or parts on the sheath, it stays in from 3 friction tabs (does that make sense???), has a serated edge, blunt or drop point... The sheath is one of those Clips that goes onto (not-so)Quick-clips on PFD's and backbacks, never comes off my harness webbing... go to a sporting goods store and check it out

PS. I also have a 7" titanium serated drop point knife to wear when I have to flaunt the testosterone in a dive knife show off... (yea, you all know you're guilty of these...)

[DiverInAk]

I carry both, in a sheath on my BC. The knife is long handled with a short blade of about two inches. I think it is a Zeagle accessory but I don't have a Zeagle BC.

[NetDoc]

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5677&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

Uncle Pug, as usual, has asked a great penetrating question about our dive practices. He is one of the few DIR divers that I really enjoy exchanging information with. Not sure he likes my humor yet, but it will grow on him in time. I do hope he keeps up with his pointed queries... In this thread, he only asked us WHERE we keep our knives, but most of us discussed what we used and why as well. Check out his other topics for some really good reading.

[solodiver]

I dive dry, I use a deep sea 5 inch blunt point knife that is secured to my chest. That way it is accessible by either hand. I have dove this configuration the last 6 years.

[JamesK]

I have a 4 inch blade blunt tip knife. It was made to be secured around your upper leg, but the starps are too short to fit on my leg. I just put it in a BC pocket.

[lakesdiver]

Carried a knife all the time until I started river diving. All the monofiliment caused me to switch to shears. No more knive.

[luvdiving]

Hi Trymixdiver

Put me down for a dive machete strapped to my right calf. I don't have to worry about putting a hole in my dry sut. I've never used shears, but I think it would be hard to signal your buddy by banging a pair of shears on your tank.:boom:

[Uncle Pug]

Originally posted by trymixdiver
any drysuit divers using a knife?


Hi Try,
I used to carry a big old honkin blunt tip knife on the inside of my left calf for years.... and the only time I used it was when scallop diving... (Viking drysuit BTW)

I carried EMT shears as well dangling from the BC strap....

Now days I carry the shears clipped off with a double ended bolt snap in my left thigh pocket. My only knife is a blunt tip kitchen paring knife in a little waist strap scabbard made from old belting. I keep the blunt tip very dull and the convex curved blade very sharp.

Thanks for the kind words Petey... you a funny guy :-)

[NetDoc]

I call 'em as I see 'em. I always enjoy the threads you start. As for me being a funny man... well looks aren't everything (in fact, with me they are next to nothing).

[miked]

Hi trymixdiver,
I "carry" a blunt tipped knife on the inside of my left calf, and a pair of shears on the right shoulder strap of my BC.
This gives, IMHO, a variety of placement and accessability options-just in case I get snagged.

MikeD

[Uncle Pug]

One additional note about knife/shear placement...
We carry them to help us if we should get entangled...
But we should make sure that they are not the source of entaglement....
In fact the elimination of snag hazards is what has led me to my current configuration.... and the only time I have been entangled since was when I left my shears hanging out of the pocket after retrieving my spare mask.... big mistake.... it actually reached out and grabbed a hold of the guideline .... ;)

I would suggest that you look your rigs over and eliminate as many potential line entrapment points as you can find....

I would also suggest that a knife on the leg...even inside...is one of the main reasons to carry shears...:D

[TRUETEXAN]

Hi trymix,
I carry a 4 1/2 inch blade US divers blunt tip with serrated blade on one side and non-serrated on the other on the inside of my right calf, however the only time I have ever used it was during post dive cookouts to cut up my steak. I also carry a pair of shears in my BC pocket and have used them many times because where I dive mostly there are a lot of abandoned trot-lines and the shears seem to cut line much easier.

[tholt576]

I wear a blunt tipped Blue Tang and shears on my weight belt.

http://home.ec.rr.com/tholt/shears.html#minishears

My wife just wears the mini-shears on her BC.