Best Cutting Tools For Scuba Divers
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2020
- Cutting Tools For Scuba Divers... Quick Tips Episode 13. I know, I ran over the 5 minute mark by 100%... but this video is crammed with hints and tips to help you buy a cutting tool for scuba diving, be that a line cutter, shears or a dive knife.
I'm giving you the pros and cons of each cutting tool style and going over the three main reasons you need to carry one. We're also talking the one reason you DO NOT need a cutting tool as a scuba diver!
Also, there's one mistake new divers make that instantly signals you're a newbie diver and it's to do with mounting a cutting tool... any guesses?!
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Best Cutting Tools For Scuba Divers
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I always dive with a large machete to fight off angry triggerfish 😂
I dive with 2 of the most experienced divers in the UK and both mount a knife to their leg. And a easy accessible one on their bcd. So I know its all preferences but slating someone mounting one to their leg and making out they're in experienced.
You want one accessible for you buddy as well so a reasonably sized knife on the leg is good if your top half gets tangled your buddy can grab it
Great info and much appreciated
Great information how to mount the cutting tool on the bc , thanks buddy stay safe , dive safe🤙🤙👍🤙
Wise advice as usual. I carry two cutters, one on each side as James suggests. On some shore dives, where I know there will be a lot of fishing line, I also carry one of those larger seat belt cutting tools, they are a lot easier to manipulate with dry gloves.
Much appreciated buddy. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and time 😉
Thank great info as always.
I started with a Scubapro Mako titanium on my BCD pocket, since the leg strap looked hopeless for access; it was still hopeless for access. When I went to a harness I bought a Halcyon ti knife, very similar to yours, and I keep it in a loop pocket on the left centre of the belt, kept in place by the buckle. As an alternate, I keep a Trilobite on my right wrist on the computer strap, so I can always reach one of them if one hand is entangled. By the way, I thought my Trilobite might be going rusty but when I took the blade out it just needed a clean. I loved the bit about the 'Call that a knife!' scenario you sometimes see. If you take a foot-long K-Bar underwater the thing you are most likely to damage is you!
Great info as always. Thanks.
First! First time ever! Life complete!
Show off
@@stevemichel801 some times a little flex is needed. 💪
My life will be complete when you find the octopus
@@DubaiDiver you'll be 237 years old by then
That’s what she said?
I carry that same folding knife (bolt snap on a D-ring) and shears (same sheath you have on my inflator hose) opposite sides of the body. I use the shears way more often than the knife. I did rescue a Yellowfin Snapper from a circle hook attached to a bunch mono on a reef. It was cool to take the fish off the hook and release it back to the reef.
I hedge my bets about what type is best for each job: I carry a hybrid knife+shear as my primary, on the front of my waist band, secured with a spring coil to a Dring (because I've lost two knives that fell out of their clip sheaths).
My secondary is a razor-type mounted to a shoulder strap.
Medics shears, the Divemaster I was diving with once borrowed mine when we were out and was grateful I had them when he did not. I use one made with 304 SS like they use for outdoor gas grills but rinse it well like other gear. I wish I had not spent the money on a knife. I need to add one on those line cutters as well.
Nice video, as usual.
Well, thought about going with the KISS principle and use a Morakniv Basic 546. Although a pair of medical shears sound like a good addition.
I have carried all of the above at one point or another. One I have carried for most of the last 40 years is a small fixed blade knife with a blunt tip, serrated blade and a notch to cut line. It came with a nylon sheath made to mount to my bc hose (no zip-ties). Always there, easy access. Recently, I was given a knife for boating, used by the Coast Guard. It is a folder with a very sharp serrated blade. It will cut through a 1/2 inch dock line under tension like butter. It has a hole in the handle. So, I attached a bolt snap to it and clip it off to a D-Ring. Usually in a thigh pocket.
As always good information
Glad you think so!
Great tips as always. The only time I carry a longer knife is if we need to dispatch a lionfish humanely that is on the spear. I like the distance from the spines! 😆
Great tips and mounting options. I am one of those people that look at people weird or tend to what they diving when they are strapping a knife to their calves, especially the big RAMBO ones. I do however use zip ties, "if properly mounted in the right place", to mount some knives sometimes. Yes, they can break or become brittle but, no more than the zip ties that mount your BCD hose to the inflator or mouthpiece to your regulator. You would just like all your equipment needs to look them over from time to time. I also mount a bungee line or a bungee lanyard through the back of the knife to use pull it over the sheath to sure it and/or use it as a wrist strap to if you have to let go with your hand you don't lose the knife. All in all, I thoroughly enjoy all your video and I am loving my new Garmin MK2i watch.
I'm glad someone else mentions the zip ties used all time on arguable one of the most important part of all you gear... the mouthpiece to regulator.
Thanks for this review, but quit teasing us by wearing that mk2 in these videos:) Hope the review comes soon and its been wet plenty. Looking forward to it.
Right I mean he only flashed it what 4 times this time ;)
Mine cam in this week. Love it so far as a smart watch that tracks all my health stuff. I found out I sleep like crap which is not new info. I won’t be able to get it wet for another week or so. Looking forward to James review though as I know he is thorough. Most of the other reviewers I have seen are simply a market brochure read through and only open got it in the water in a pool, but that provided pretty good info about the connectivity range for the air pod
I have that black folding knife in yellow (to match my fins!!). A simple bolt snap tied to the lanyard hole with cave line and it is always on my gear. I have never washed or rinsed it. Not a single bit of salt or rust on it (including the pins that hold it together) after about 4 dive trips and a year. LOVE IT. It replaced a beautiful, razor sharp, steel knife my dive buddy bought me. That knife was calf mounted but a humid day would rust it. And I had to take it apart after every dive day to rinse it and let it dry. Way too much work for me. And it was heavy. As an aside, I like to keep my gear standardized. I have chord tied bolt snaps on my camera and video gear, my knife, and my dive light. No guessing where something is or worrying about it falling out of of zippered pocket, which never seem to stay closed. Just some thoughts.
great advice here. If you can’t reach it, you can’t use it.
I have a pinch clip knife mounted on one side of my BCD and a line cutter in a pocket on the other side.
another great option for line cutter are the ceramic blades no rusting! DGX sells one a little bigger then the one shown in the video but its worked great for clean ups i do here in Hawaii.
Ceramic is nice knife material.
Nice video 🤙🏼 thank you 😊
Thank you too!
A trylobite in the backplate belt, and a Spyderco H1 blunt tip inside a small Mares XR bag along with SMB and signaling emergency mirror, foldable snorkel and small backup torch.
I use a folder and a line cutter primarily; I dive cold water and those tiny handled knives and shears suck with dry gloves on. I have the big calve mount knives which a dive guide used to cut rope :) I'm looking for a smaller fixed blade with a real size handle in SS to put on my belts as an option in the future.
James, i actually use the same knife as your wife, mounted in the same location on my BP&W and my BCD. I have another reason to carry a knife as a cutting tool as well, one of I've had to use it for. I'm normally a Puget Sound shore diver, and sometimes we'll have currents that seem to come out of no where. When this happens you can use your knife like a climbing tool or an anchor. Simply jab it into the sand/silt/pebbles and rest, or use it to pull yourself up towards the shore. I know that it isn't a preferred method but it has saved several lives.
what is the name of the knife? I thought he said Aqualung but I cannot find the knife.
@OrangeBlood485 , it used to just be called the Aqualung Squeeze Lock Knife. It doesn't look like they make it any more but a quick Google search will find you lots of sellers that still carry it. I have and generally carry a stainless steel blunt tip, but i also have a titanium tanto style that was a gift.
I use the "traditional Line cutter" mounted center on the chest strap of my back inflate Blackhawk from ScubaPro backup is the same type your wife uses a pinch style dull tip 2 sided mounted on my BC inflator hose. This keeps them both accessible with either hand and I rarely us the knife as the line cutter can cut up to 3/4" line or 1 1/2" line if I take more time. Also make fast work of monofilament line.
Come on James, why are you dissing the calf mounted knife? LOL
I've always found the size of a divers knife is inversely proportional to their level of experience.
I see you've also met the machete divers
Can confirm. I received my first rambo diving knife a whole decade before I took my first diving lesson.
Thats me having to learn all over again
I normally carry three. A line cutter on my right wrist. A small knife from DGX on my left, and a small blunt tip knife on my harness. That way always have access to at least one probably two cutting tools.
Big fan of the trilobite-style line cutter. I have a nice Mares XR one which has a ceramic line cutter, and titanium saw blade on the other side. 2” loop on the sheath, so just have it on my shoulder strap, super easy to reach and unsheath one handed, cuts through anything.
Yep me too. Mares XR cutter on the right shoulder and a ezycut trilobite on the dive computer strap.
Combo works really well for me.
Unless it's a rope I get tangled in its more than enough. And if I get tangled in a rope, I'll need to take a long hard look at myself.
@@alanbraithwaite8089 I've got a Trilobite on my left waist strap, and one on my right shoulder strap. I can reach both knives with both hands easily, so that's like 4 different ways I can grab a line cutter should I get entangled.
My serrated knife isn't really a self rescue tool, but more for cutting larger ropes in a clean up or should I come across a poor entangled creature. So that's on a bolt snap underneath some elasticated band. I would realistically need both hands to open it anyways.
I carry a foldable knife but in a pouch strapped to my webbing. Works fine for me. One thing I prefer foldable knife to a knife is that I don't need to unfold and expose the blade to cut line.
I’ve got the Spyderco Assist Salt H1 - blunted tip, combination of non serrated and serrated blade, built in rescue whistle (really loud actually), fantastic grip on the handle, and takes up little space.
Also have a Benchmade #7 hook blade. Nice small, very sharp, very hard to cut yourself or the wrong piece of gear.
I just got the Spyderco Salt 2 (H2) with a serrated blade. It has a somewhat pointy tip, but it's nicely rounded down to the cutting edge. I contemplated the Pacific Salt 2, but it's bigger and more pointy. Both things I don't really want.
H1 steel is amazing, unfortunately it's no longer being produced. We'll see how H2 will hold up. As I understand it, it's got the same rustproof properties of H1.
@@bloodymarvelous4790 all I need now is a replacement screw for the back piece that worked loose on mine.
Search and recovery diver always carry a Trilobite on the waist and trauma shears inside the bcd or on a lanyard on me. trauma shears can cut some light metals. used to use one of those spyderco dive knives when doing commercial diving, but too much knife for rec diving
James one other mount that I find people have challenges with is for the webbing style holster for single blade/line cutters onto a jacket style BCD. Advice?
I like shears if iIm in a spot where i may run into metal fishing leaders. Also cold galvanize in a rattle can is great on line cutter blades or ss folding knives, shears.... not the grey paint the cans are extra heavy and have zinc
My first knife is a straight up Rambo knife. I keep it to remind me to always question why I need to buy something. When I got certified some a-hole at the dive shop told me I needed it. Dullest knife I ever owned.
Thanks James!
Great video! I have the same knife as your wife and I have it on my inflator hose with the rubber attachment piece that it came with (two rubber loops). Is that a good set up? Have you heard of those breaking?
Thanks
Hi Drew, I know the kind you mean. Yes, rubber is wear and tear. Eventually, those bungees will give out. Keep an eye on them and replace at the first sign of fraying.
I coat my shear's metal parts in silicone grease to help ward off saltwater corrosion.
Also take my cutting tool apart and coat all the metal parts with the grease as well.
Try galvanizing spray? It comes in a can like spray paint but the can is extra heavy has it contains zinc.
@@volvoman2324 I would worry about it interfering with the cutting edge.
@@Taigin seems not to , it’s somewhat ablative work really well in a the razors in line cutters hot wax is good too on a tool you eat off.
ok, shark attacks aside, I may need to cut the breathing line of my enemy like James Bond.
Hello James, very informative and opportune video, I was debating this topic myself last night. Would you consider reviewing the Zeagle Stiletto? It seems to be a really good BC, but the info is somewhat scarce. Cheers
Hi Alberto, if you can get Zeagle to send me a Stilletto, I will happily review it! They don't answer my emails!
@@DiversReady Well, they should! Cheers mate, keep it up
Always good to practice with the tool underwater before you actually need it. my wife and I went to the pool and took turns holding some scrap twine while the other tried to cut it with our knives. She decided she liked the shears better as you can be neutral buoyant and don't need leverage to push against something to cut or saw with the knife. I have used my knife to free some lobsters caught in ghost gear and open some lost gear (no ropes to the surface or other traps) so other creatures would not get caught unnecessarily.
I tried the same thing in case I need to defend myself against a shark. Unfortunately the obese woman didn't appreciate my commitment to being prepared, and neither did the police.
Would have been good to see how a more traditional knife (like the titanium ones you showed) cut through webbing
With great difficulty, especially when someone is wearing that webbing. You'd have to use it as a saw on the broad side of the webbing (to avoid stabbing the person wearing the webbing), a finely serated blade would be better than a smooth blade. If you expect to cut through webbing, bring shears or a razor-style tool with you on the dive.
So I keep 2-3 cutters on me. I like a Z pattern so I can get to a device no matter the hang-up. One small titanium knife on my chest (L), A small titanium seatbelt cutter on my hip(R) - might replace this with a Trilo in the near future, and yes occasionally I go full Sea-Hunt and have a nice medium blunted tip on my inner calf (L)...this is more for a prying tool than a knife (thus the blunted tip), but I do rarely put it on (usually it's for a specific dive OR I forgot all my other cutters ;) ... and I could care less what some zero to hero DM thinks about my gear config ;) hahahaha
I don't find the shears rust THAT easily, plus you can usually buy a bag of a dozen for less than a dollar each on eBay. I just grab a new one when they rust out (although TBF I usually give them away before then.)
DGX has a ceramic bladed line cutter that's reasonably priced if you are ordering other things to absorb the shipping charge; AliExpress has inexpensive ones with steel blades.
James, how do you feel about using the grommets on newer BCs to mount the knife outside the pocket???
i have a small aqualung knife (similar to the one in the video, but even smaller) mounted this way. It remains out of the way, yet is very accessible with both hands (aqualung dimension bcd). The reality is i have never used it, but it is always there! my warm water bp/w rig, i have no knife attached yet.
I like them! Use book screws to secure the knife though, as opposed to bungee or cable ties.
You can cut through a penny with the shears. Seriously. I used to blow my EMT students minds with that trick.
I may try a pair. I immediately ruled them out because they looked like they would flex at the hinge pin under a modest load. Thanks for the tip.
Trauma shears are excellent!
And the follow-up to demonstrating cutting through a penny with your shears is tossing them in the trash, as they aren't going to cut much afterwards!
@@StrangerInAStrange I haven't had that issue 🤔
@@KB-gd6fc Probably the cheap shears we used to give away to EMS. We all carried a set too. 😂 I am carrying a set of the same on my BC and have several spares.
Don't forget kelp as a entanglement hazard. While it's often said that "you can simply snap kelp," that isn't true for all kinds of kelp. E.g., bull kelp.
I carry trauma shears, a Trilobite line cutter and a blunt-end serrated knife. (All are coated with silicone grease to prevent / slow down rust.) Shears are in my right pocket. The others are on my waist harness, right in the middle.
Kelp is very easily to get off you without damaging it. Unless you panic and turn in circles. Don't damage the environment.
My choice of cutting tools is almost entirely dictated by the fact that most of the places I dive, have banned them.
So, I carry a folding titanium knife in my right pocket. I have it on a plastic coiled line. The line prevents me from dropping it, but it can be easy cut or snapped; should it become a tangle hazard. On the outside of my left pocket I have the Aqualung Micro Squeeze Sheep's Foot 'line cutter'.
Biggest reason to have two cutting tools is, when you need it in a stressfull situation your adrenalin will make you clumsy, and risc of dropping it is wery high
Given the UKs laws on knifes, do you have any recommendations that are legal to own in the UK but still give the functions?
All are legal to own and legal to buy by persons over the age of 18. It’s carrying in public without reason that is illegal. If you are caring a knife with your dive kit that’s fine. Just like a chef going to work with his knives is also fine
Hi. I'm Justin. I'm dumb. I didnt know titanium doesn't rust.
It also cost twice as much as stainless steel. Maintenance is a thing... LOL
Yep, cost more and not easy to sharpen if it gets dull.
Not sure why you didn't show the dive rite. It is the what I carry on my perdix strap.
I don't get the argument that you need one for each arm. If my arm with my knife gets entangled I can use the other arm to get the knife, since I would need to do that anyway. If my other arm gets entangled I can take my arm with the knife to the other arm. If both got entangled it wouldn't matter how many knifes I had. I think some people just think they look cool having a bunch of knifes on them.
I carry a folding knife in a pocket, but not as a primary cutting tool. The only reason it gets pulled out is for real rope, otherwise I use one of 3 Z knives I have on me.
Titanium is horrible to sharpen, but as long you keep the knife for emergencies only, it is fine. I prefer a line cutter.
but what about fi8ghting a kraken with a scuba knife. whats a good knife to fight the kraken tenticle???
The invitation still stand to meet up with your Johnny boy in a Muay Thai ring in Thailand.
Hey im a new diver and your saying a shark will never attack a diver? Its a fear i think most new divers have but u said it will never happen?
That’s me I carry a cutting tool to defend myself against the sharks 0.o
*randomly tests scissors.. - perfect straight cut
A key decision:
🔪 pointed tip knife vs blunt tip knife 🔪
Can anybody tell me why a pair of ordinary kitchen scissors (in a sheath) wouldn't do the job? Just asking...
I've got three Trilobite Eezycut knives.
One on my right shoulder strap. One on my waist strap. One as a spare in my SADK.
I also have a big dive knife that I can strap onto my arm or calf, but I never use it. It's too big, it's horrible for travel, and it makes me look like an idiot. That was money well wasted.
Just added a Spyderco Salt 2 (H2) serrated knife to cut through thicker rope. I like the blade shape because it rolls down to the tip. That makes it less likely I'll injure anything should I need to put it up against the skin.
I removed the pocket clip, and tied a small bolt snap to it. It's on my right D-ring, under an elastic band to keep it from dangling.
I'm not a fan of pointy tip fixed knives. Too stabby-stabby for my liking. Too easy to stab yourself or cut your gear when stowing it. I'm okay with it on a folding knife because you fold it before you stow it.
Line cutter on my computer strap (has titanium and ceramic blades) and the same knife as your wife on my opposite shoulder
Rambo knife 😂😂😂
I wish I never got one.
my dive knive saved me when i was atacked by 3 white sharks, if it wasnt for it i dont know,,,
Google "egypt shark attack"
Why?
@@robmichaels4728 in Egypt once every 3-5 years someone gets eaten by a shark. Latest incident was this October.
For the best cutting tool, please contact your local PADI 5 -star dive center.
A poke with a knife or speargun definitely slows down Bruce’s interest in you.
Stop spreading the myth that it doesn’t.