Found a diver's knife in my apartment...

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Chief Brody

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In the utility closet with the boiler in it, tucked between a TV cable and the molding around the doorway, we found a sheathed Sporasub diver's knife. "What the hell...." I have no idea who put it there, how long it's been there, or anything else. The family that used to live here has long since moved away. The knife is serrated on one side and straight-edged on the other. The sheath says Made In Italy. Anybody know much about these? Is it worth anything? Just plain odd finding something like that where it was. I guess it may have been a just-in-case home defense sort of thing? Who knows...
 
is that's where I left it.... is it cool if I fire you a pm with my forwarding address ????
 
Wow, thats really wierd, when I bought my house about
15yrs. ago, my wife was rearranging our kitchen cabinets
and pulls out a red handled scuba pro dive knife, and says
hey heres one of your knives, it was behind the front facia
molding of the cabinet held up there with push pins!!!
The only thing I can figure is the previous owner must have
put it there for a hidden defence tool.
 
Wow, thats really wierd, when I bought my house about
15yrs. ago, my wife was rearranging our kitchen cabinets
and pulls out a red handled scuba pro dive knife, and says
hey heres one of your knives, it was behind the front facia
molding of the cabinet held up there with push pins!!!
The only thing I can figure is the previous owner must have
put it there for a hidden defence tool.
 
What's with the hidden diver's knives for home defense haha - Definitely didn't expect to hear about it happening to someone else!
I think I'll stick with my 870.
 
nice find.about 6 months ago I was paid to clean & paint a house that a group of people moved out of. While i was doing the trim work in the kitchen over the cabinets I found a Kershaw Chum wedged between the wall & the cabinet.

It looked Brand spanking new & was razor sharp!
 
I've been a diver since 1975 and had never heard of the brand before, so I started digging.

According to the current Sporasub website http://www.sporasubamerica.com/ , they started producing scuba related equipment in the mid-90s when the brand was purchased by Mares, a diving equipment company I had heard of before.

The blade on this one looks very similar to the current Mares "Snake" spearfishing knife, except that one has a zinc pommel cap.
Mares Black Snake.JPG


Then I found a reference to the Sporasub Mares Snake Spearfishing Knife, also with a zinc pommel cap (patented, no less :D )
Sporasub Mares Green Snake.JPG

Based on all this, I suspect that your knife is a Mares designed Sporasub marketed predecessor to the current Snake. Probably 1995 to 2003. It was designed primarily for use as a spearfisher's knife.
 
Nice, thanks very much for the info. I might try to sell it, but with your experience, it can't be a good sign that you'd never heard of the brand. Hmph.
 
better yet, take up some diving. I mean you already have the knife, what more reasoning does a knife knut need :P
 
Chief Brody said:
Nice, thanks very much for the info. I might try to sell it, but with your experience, it can't be a good sign that you'd never heard of the brand. Hmph.
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I wouldn't say it was bad just because I hadn't heard of it. Sporasub apparently has always been geared toward the spearfishing crowd and I never got into that side of diving/skindiving (aka snorkling). Mainly out of Florida it seems and from what I could see during my research, well respect. Now, Mares I had heard of, but I ignored because even back in the 70s/80s when I was still buying new equipment, I bought "USA". Mares was one of those "made over there somewhere" lines of equipment and I always tended to go with stuff where I knew I could track down the company if I needed customer support/repair parts.

I was also a west coast/westpac/IO Navy type. Maybe if I had been stationed at Mayport FL or Pensacola, I'd a heard about them/seen their stuff. I still have every dive knife I ever bought or found (around 20). After I found my 5th/6h one, I seldom looked at the new stuff because I had all the variety I needed and the ones I had worked fine.

Most of the dive knives from major brands that I have seen are pretty good for what they are intended to do. I never really tried to get too sharp an edge on the cutting side because my primary focus on a dive knife was on the serrated edge - how well would it cut whatever line/string/cord you got tangled up in while diving. Damn hard to see monofilament line underwater. My test was usually to use the knife in the store and try to cut mono/string/cord/.25" and .5" manila rope I brought with me. If it worked out of the box, I bought it. Most dive store owners were surprised I would test the serrated edges first before buying the knives. And some were insulted when I declared that a product was useless.
 
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