This is mostly just brain rambling...
Today I was watching an old episode of "Dirty Jobs", en episode where Mike and 2 other guys were out in a small boat harvesting Kelp. They would pull out bit pieces of kelp and cut the main stalk with a sharp knife. So it is a lot of handling the kelp with a knife in your hand, and apparently they inevitably drop a knife in the ocean. I was thinking they needed lanyards, but decided that would get in the way. If the knife is hanging from your wrist while you are using your hands and swing your arms around, the knife will swing around too and that could be dangerous. Then I was thinking of a knife like the Swick that can stay on your hand while you are working. This might be an improvement and might or might not be safer. Then I was thinking that you could have a more conventional knife with a wrist strap that would hold it in the palm of your hand, and an automatic knife might work well for this task so you could have the blade in until you needed it. Then it hit me that an OTF automatic would be just the thing for this. Put a wrist strap on it so it stays in your palm, then work the blade in or out as needed. Too bad it wouldn't work in most states.
Today I was watching an old episode of "Dirty Jobs", en episode where Mike and 2 other guys were out in a small boat harvesting Kelp. They would pull out bit pieces of kelp and cut the main stalk with a sharp knife. So it is a lot of handling the kelp with a knife in your hand, and apparently they inevitably drop a knife in the ocean. I was thinking they needed lanyards, but decided that would get in the way. If the knife is hanging from your wrist while you are using your hands and swing your arms around, the knife will swing around too and that could be dangerous. Then I was thinking of a knife like the Swick that can stay on your hand while you are working. This might be an improvement and might or might not be safer. Then I was thinking that you could have a more conventional knife with a wrist strap that would hold it in the palm of your hand, and an automatic knife might work well for this task so you could have the blade in until you needed it. Then it hit me that an OTF automatic would be just the thing for this. Put a wrist strap on it so it stays in your palm, then work the blade in or out as needed. Too bad it wouldn't work in most states.