Originally Posted by
Less Hair
Has anybody ever used this knife for something?
Curved blade? yes, I dropped a hint in post #27...
You only get the full horror story over beers, so short version for here is..splashdown in a pretty feisty sea, 15-25 knots of wind....had done all the good Sea survival stuff on the descent(including pulling pins out of Koch fasteners
..yes it's that long ago...) but even though I detached the chute PDQ and despite the theory about the 'chute being blown well clear in such conditions I ended up wrapped in the ******lines, lots of them, pinned down in the water, unable to get into the by now inflated dingy ....
Knife deployed and used as advertised to cut enough lines cut to allow me to get aboard...care of course being taken to try not to cut the PSP/dingy line. Have to say it was a fairly healthy, breaking sea and I swallowed a bit of water before getting untangled and into dingy..I'm not sure quite how things would have ended up without the knife...
Sadly at some point in the subsequent proceedings I lost the darn thing, shame, would have made a good souvenir.
The one thing I learnt from my episode was that on a really bad day getting out of the aircraft may only be the start of your problems......