What do you carry for cutting?

[Thalassamania]

Cut off steak knife on my harness, Z-knife on my computer strap.

I personally never understood the whole knife-on-the-leg thing. Seems like one of the worst places to have one but if you must, inside of the leg where it's less likely to get hung on something.

The whole idea was that if you ditched your weight belt and your tank you still had your knife.

 

[wcl]

Hi all,

Inventory:
- Short BC knife on LP inflator hose of BC (left)
- Small z-knife top of right shoulder on BC
- EMT shears on left shoulder strap, bottom (by cummerbund)
- When wreck diving in Lake Michigan in drysuit (read: more pockets!), a
Spyderco Salt in the right pocket.

The points made about accessibility are key:
- the first three are all nominally reachable with both hands;
- something is available to each hand even with some restriction on movement
- most of these (particulary the red-tabbed z-knife) are obvious and reachable
by another diver (one who might come to assist, for example).

Sounds like a lot, but given our local dive gang once recovered a huge spool of steel leader line from the hallway of the Straits of Mackinac ferry we dive by Chicago, it seems reasonable to me!

Cheers,
Walter

 

[pir8]

When in the Ocean I carry a larger knife on m y leg,in addition to my small hose mounted one plus extra scissors. The large knife is in case i need to cut the grapple out of the wreck not for sharks or such. In the quarrys I don't bother with the leg knife

 

[loosebits]

The whole idea was that if you ditched your weight belt and your tank you still had your knife.

I thought it was a Sea Hunt thing. Makes sense but I think wrist mount would be preferable.

 

[pir8]

Personally I don't like wrist mounted anything. Stuff can get caught up when bug hunting.

 

[MBH]

A small Blackie Collins blunt tip and a pair of Deep Outdoors emt shears. Both on my waist strap slightly left of center.

 

[Thalassamania]

I thought it was a Sea Hunt thing. Makes sense but I think wrist mount would be preferable.

I think Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt wore his knife on his weight belt, if I remember correctly. A knife on your wrist would interfere with your compass readings.

 

[loosebits]

Other wrist Besides, I wear my compass on my ankle.

Sea Hunt was before my time, I'll defer to your expertise.

 

[grazie42]

Shears on waist-band, (big)knife in pocket...

 

[Thalassamania]

Other wrist Besides, I wear my compass on my ankle.

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