Heres an odd knid of knife

remington collector · Post by **remington collector** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:02 pm

Its a Deep See Knife from Hawaii. Best I can tell its for underwater use. Deep sea diving, snorkeling, that type thing. It comes in a 100% rubber type sheath and leg straps to fasten it to your leg or thigh. An aquantance knew I liked knives and gave it to me. Its got a blunt tip for prying, a serrated edge, a fishing line cutter and 1 sharpened edge. The first kind of knife like this I've ever had.

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:44 pm

I never wear one while free diving in the thick kelp beds while diving for abalone. Just one more thing to hang up on, my gear is set up so that I can slide through the kelp with no worries about getting hung up, the ankle is a bad spot cause you have to turn back and hope you don't get tangled up especially while free diving - no tanks.

It's a good idea in more "open water". But the most important thing on that knife is the line cutter. I fear monofiliment fishing line more than anything. In our somewhat murky waters around here, you won't see it until you're in it and if you are halfway down, no leverage to break it. Lose your cool in that situation and start flailing - you drown! The heck with sharks, they're always around, fishing line is far more deadly to a diver IMO. Nice knife! As far as knives go, that seems to be the first thing a diver loses, based on how many rusted knives I've found over the years.

knife7knut · Post by **knife7knut** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:27 pm

Very informative reply HUKK.I am not a diver but your advice makes perfect sense.
The Deep See knife is a bit unusual with the blunted pry bar tip.I have a small United Cutlery knife that has a slightly smaller blunt end.I also have a Deep See with fluorescent green handles.
I have a small collection of diver's knives and a couple of unusual ones.Two of them are(I guess)"backup" knives in case you lose the main one.One is by Wenoka and the other a company called,"Answer".
My pride and joy though is a pre 1964 Puma Frogmesser(Frogman's knife)in really great condition.The unusual part about it is that the blade is plain on one side and serrated on the other and the handle rotates it into whichever one you want to use.Unfortunately it came with no sheath(which I have been looking for for years)and the sheath is unique to the knife.The tip of the D guard has a hole in it which locks into a spring loaded pin in the sheath.If anyone knows where I can buy one,I would be most grateful.
This post has given me an incentive to post another of my collections:wood and cork handled floating fish knives both fixed and folding.I am in the process of re-photographing them and will post a few when I've finished.

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:12 am

The blunted tip can be used for a few things. While it is a bit small for the Red abalone it can be used for many of the smaller Aisian species to pry them from the rocks. Around here it would be great for rock scallops also. Another use is to use the blunted end to break up a few sea urchins and sit on the floor of the ocean to sit and wait for small fish to eat the urchin. Bigger fish come to eat the smaller fish and I have filled a stringer or two by spearing fish in this manner. I have shot fish to 30 LBS using this method. (shooting fish does sound strange

) There are no abalone in Hawaii (transplants have been tried from Red Abalone and failed) that I know of but there are likely some shellfish, I know there is a small lobster there also.