Another stupid knife question

[Super Noob 1258]

Buy a cheap knife while you're there and give it away when you leave.
Maybe a z-knife or a Trilobite would get past airport security?

I'm trying to dive with a cutting tool, and stay off the no fly list.

 

[LiquidDivingAdventure]

Although TSA may let you through with some scissors, I find that from airport to airport the same rule varies on things as stupid as shoes. My trips in October and November took me through 10 different airports and something that was acceptable in one screening got thrown away in another. BIC lighters are an example. One is OK, maybe. My wife had two and told them one was mine. Four airport screenings later those same lighters were taken from us because the screener said the disposable lighters were actually refillable. Don't count on some chart or template TSA may have in one airport. You will not win that argument...

 

[Diogenesdemar]

Noun

moot point (plural moot points)

1. An issue that is subject to, or open for discussion or debate; originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.  

Them points is moots . . .

TSA don't allow no stinking points.

 

[DandyDon]

Well, as already said, you cannot take a knife on a plane in carry-on. Shears are allowed, but that can fail.

You don't need a cutting tool in the Cozumel park, nor are knives allowed there. I'd want shears diving the northern reefs tho, outside of the park - where fishing line and knives are both allowed. Take cheaper EMT shears in your carryon and carry those up north. If you lose them to TSA, or they don't last long - no biggie.

 

[Hatul]

I had my nail clippers taken by agent in Cozumel on the way out. So if she took the nail clippers she would have taken shears, which are potentially more of a weapon.

 

[DeputyDan]

I'm trying to dive with a cutting tool, and stay off the no fly list.

Shears should be all you need.
Buy some in Coz and give to the DM after your last dive.

 

[DivemasterDennis]

SO...leave the knife home. Problem solved.
DivemasterDennis

 

[Doc]

Just axe me.

 

[Wayne at DiveSeekers]

This is not TSA Approved but I have yet to have an EEZYCUT taken away from me! I keep it right on my wrist computer, it will also fit on a harness. The biggest entanglement you are likely to encounter is mono line so EEZYCUT is the ideal tool to have.

 

[DandyDon]

First bag checks free on international flights to the Caribbean or Mexico if you really want to take one. I take much too much to go with less than 2 checked bags.