ocean master dive knife

[nougabol]

i acquired the om dive knife and the neoprene wrap
but the problem is how do i put the damn thing on my leg
does anyone have one at home and is willing to take some pictures off wearing it ?

thanx guys µ
greets from belgium

[Birsanc]

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[nougabol]

thanx i have come this far but what about the leg straps itself?
do you first putt your leg through or do you wrap it around ?

[Birsanc]

Do you intend to use this while actually diving?

Are you serious?

[daily666]

Do you intend to use this while actually diving?

Are you serious?

Why not? It's a safety measure not a weapon. But I'd rather use one of these.
http://www.nurkomania.pl/img/sekator.gif

Those things come handy when dealing with nets and stuff, however you're not allowed to use them in some places (i.e. Egypt).

[Birsanc]

Why not?


I was being facetious.


thanx i have come this far but what about the leg straps itself?
do you first putt your leg through or do you wrap it around ?


If the straps unattach then undo them, wrap them around your calf and reattach.

If they don't, put your foot through and pull it up onto your calf.

Good luck.

[daily666]

I was being facetious.


Ah, OK I didn't get that drift.

[nougabol]

yes sir i will be diving with them.
probaly croatia, or somewhere else in the meditterrean

first thing my father thaught me never ever dive without a knife !
not only for cutting, but also priing, stomping things everything you can think off

luck, if you need it, favors the prepared mind

cheers guys

[T.H.E. rooster]

I've noticed a lot of dive knives have somewhat shiny blades. I thought you wouldn't want something like that because I heard shiny objects attract sharks and barracudas?

[nougabol]

it has a rough finish all over ( no shining ) so i dont see a problem there

maybe there are some other divers here who can shed some light on this matter

[daily666]

it has a rough finish all over ( no shining ) so i dont see a problem there

maybe there are some other divers here who can shed some light on this matter

Well I've had different kinds of knives but in 14 years I've been diving I never had a problem with attracting any dangerous fish. Good knives aren't shiny (gloss) but patined stainless steel. I've been diving in potentially dangerous areas but never heard of Sharks being keen on shiny objects.

btw. your father thaught you well.

[T.H.E. rooster]

Ok, thanks. I guess I was looking at some cheap knives or something.

[quellish]

i acquired the om dive knife and the neoprene wrap
but the problem is how do i put the damn thing on my leg
does anyone have one at home and is willing to take some pictures off wearing it ?

thanx guys µ
greets from belgium

I do not have this knife, but used this sheath with another knife. You do strap it around your leg, and the straps are a little odd. The velcro covers both sides for a more secure fit - though if you are using a wetsuit, this just makes it harder to adjust the fit when you are at depth and your suit has compressed. Think about how a ninja catches a blade by clapping his hands together, that is how the velcro is supposed to work.

It is a very nice sheath though. If the straps were just a little longer, it would be a comfortable thigh sheath as well as calf.

[Royal]

yes sir i will be diving with them.
probaly croatia, or somewhere else in the meditterrean

first thing my father thaught me never ever dive without a knife !
not only for cutting, but also priing, stomping things everything you can think off

luck, if you need it, favors the prepared mind

cheers guys

Knives are pretty useless in diving. Seatbelt shears or line cutters are far better for cutting entanglements, and, if you do get tangled it will probably be your legs - so the big shiny rambo job strapped to your calf will be useless anyway.

If you're diving in Croatia or the Eastern Med, it will be on wrecks - 'cos there's bugger all else to look at there, so nets and lines are your biggest worry.

All that said, I do (sometimes) dive with a 4" titanium knife on the shoulder of my BCD - but then I also carry 3 torches and a spare mask.

[nougabol]

i dont worry about not being able to reach it, the om that is

i also have a seal pup attached to upper arm

i consider the lower one a knife for buddy to buddy helping

about the wrecks, any particular ones interesting ?
especially like plane wrecks, last one i saw was a Ju 88 off the coast off italy, not far from Portofino, it still had is machine guns !

[nougabol]

and for the entanglement issue, i find , in my personal experience that is, that your much more likely to get entangled where your tank is and near the hoses.

[Royal]

about the wrecks, any particular ones interesting ?
especially like plane wrecks, last one i saw was a Ju 88 off the coast off italy, not far from Portofino, it still had is machine guns !

There's a U Boat scuttled off Brac - but it's pretty smashed up, we dived one of the old SBS caiques off Hvar, which was cool for what it was rather than the wreck itself. There are a few aircraft about too - we dived a Ju88 somewhere off Ploce.

[daily666]

There's a U Boat scuttled off Brac - but it's pretty smashed up, we dived one of the old SBS caiques off Hvar, which was cool for what it was rather than the wreck itself. There are a few aircraft about too - we dived a Ju88 somewhere off Ploce.

I'd add some of my experiences. B-17 off Calvia (Corsica), I've been to Hvar few years ago but didn't know about that SBS, spent there two awesome weeks but only merchant wrecks.

Also SS Baron Gautsch (WWI) best accesible from Pag Isle (Croatia), very interesting stuff.

If you really want to do some wreck diving you might try here.

http://www.balticwrecks.com/en/home.html

Cheers.

[ekranoplan]

Also SS Baron Gautsch (WWI) best accesible from Pag Isle (Croatia), very interesting stuff.



Em, no. Rovinj, Istria, is starting point for Baron Gautsch. Pag is not close enough.

Btw. here's my diving knife. It does everything I need, including flat tip screwdriver. I alwayz wore my knife on weight-belt, not much use on the leg. DIR school. I would also go with pair of good scissors.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7426/img0667resizelh0.jpg

I also have to correct Royal - most diving in Croatia is done on walls, cliffs, caves and reefs. Also big thing is amphorae diving. Wrecks are not that popular with dive clubs, cause usually they require more complex diving procedures, bigger depths and sometimes deco. Most "interesting" wrecks are below 70m - which means trimix and real deco stuff. Tourists don't dive technical dives with hours long decos.

Second reason is more and more tight regulations on underwater cultural sites. Dive club owners are faced with serious paperwork when taking people to wrecks and protected sites. For instance only few clubs from from Rovinj have licences to take people diving to Baron Gautsch.

[Royal]

I also have to correct Royal - most diving in Croatia is done on walls, cliffs, caves and reefs.

I'll take it back - most of my diving in Croatia was on wrecks - I saw bugger all by way of marine life on anything else.

But all my diving there was as R&R with other military guys - not on civvy trips...