Scuba diving knife

Pete1977

Pete1977

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I am a marine patrol officer and wear an inflatable pfd as part of my uniform. I have been searching for a knife to attach to the pfd. I tried cheap amazon tekna style knives but none of them come with clips on the sheath like the one I purchased in the mid 90s.

As the PFDs are inflatable, using the ankle straps will not work. Today i put an old ship to shore radio clip to secure the knife to my PFD but while assisting a disabled bost i lost it overboard its first day on the job. Fortunately i am only out $13.

What i am looking for is a slim, preferably skeletal knife that can be worn inverted with some type of clip on the sheath. I have always preferred the tekna style knives.
I also prefer a dagger blade either partially serrated or not.

Now, it will spend most of its time in its sheath secured to my PFD and only used in an emergency.

For now i managed to jury rig an $8 amazon diving dagger with the metal clip from an old holster but i would prefer an actual sheath with a spring clip, a secure sheath and dagger blade and preferably keep the price down- otherwise i would get s spyderco salt knife.

Any advice is apprecate
Thanks
Pete
 
I used to have a short dagger-type knife mounted on my BCD. I kind of rigged it myself as I didn;t see anything like it on the market back then,
Today I see Scubapro offers a sumilar concept called the Scubapro Mako, with 3 1/2 inch blade available in Stainless or Titanium.
Not a "dagger" but it should mount inverted.
 
Tekna is still in production and is in between runs on their dagger style knife if you want to wait a few weeks or I have a lightly used one that I could sell you now. I work on a submarine as a diver and I use a Spyderco Salt folder and it is very nice. It does need more sharpening than regular steel but it does pretty well. I have a new one made from the LC200N which is supposed to be better than the older H1 steel.
 
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