Wasp--Explosive Knife

Just saw a vid of this. The guy was wearing a wetsuit. Now I hear it is for diver's against sharks, so this explains the wetsuit, but he was not in water. Go figure. I do not want one.
 
halromberg said:
Call me a mall ninja, but I've gotta get me one of these! It's so incredibly useless and gratuitiously offensive to polite society that it's a must. We need a test report on the insta-freeze watermellon anyway. :D
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THat's pretty much what I was hoping for. Pick on up and see what it does. Post some pics. I am skeptical, but intrigued.
 
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"If you gotta be that close to a large predator to stick it...you're probably toast or close to being toast."

Its nice that the site also tells how in the UK they are now giving 4 year sentences for carrying a knife... Good thing that gun ban reduced gun violence, now its only the knife violent thugs, who apparently cant afford black marked guns, that you have to worry about. Soon there will be no tools left in that country because hammer will be outlawed and saws will be long gone. "The government heard a rumor that looks can kill, therefore all bad looking people will be rounded up..."
 
JTR357 said:
Wonder if it could take down an elephant?:D:D
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They use a different gas in the elephant models than they use in the shark/bear models. Helium. Just stab those pesky pachyderms with the helium model and they just float away into the upper atmosphere.
 
No thanks. Seems really cruel and crude to me, almost like a torture device.

BTW, I've already seen this on another "news-blog" site, and everyone there is holding it up as a reason why there should be more restrictions on knives here in the US. Bad press that the knife community does not need.
 
Matteo Escobar said:
No thanks. Seems really cruel and crude to me, almost like a torture device.

BTW, I've already seen this on another "news-blog" site, and everyone there is holding it up as a reason why there should be more restrictions on knives here in the US. Bad press that the knife community does not need.
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sounds to me like more reasons to buy one.
 
So what would be someone's best guess for this knife to be used against sharks? I've never touched a shark, but people have described it to me as being rough, like sandpaper. To be effective, any device would have to penetrate a shark or a bear, and getting the blade into one's attacker is more than half the battle. When diving in shark-infested waters, is a standard diving knife usually effective?

Years ago, in Hawaii, I was coming in just as some other divers were going out. I'd seen some sharks in a distance whipping around the sandy bottom, but they didn't appear to be a threat. Still, we decided to go back. The divers coming out, however, had wet suits and every single one of them had a diving knife. Such knives are useful for prying open shells and as prying tools in general, but I don't know how they would serve as weapons of defense.

If a knife like the Wasp can go deep enough, it might be useful. It makes me wonder if the designers have tested it on anything but watermelon.
 
jonesjp@surry.net said:
what kind of strength/speed would it take to penetrate living sharkskin in the water? Newton's third law, etc.

And as others have observed. it does seem like the same law would make the knife squirt out of the wound, unless the gas ports were placed to drive it deeper, and that doesn't look like the gizmo works that way.

The thing could certainly be used to cool beer, though, so it would be useful.

Still, maybe we could start a pool on how long it takes for a ban to go into place. I don't think they'll wait for an event using the thing... I think they'll try to outlaw a whole class of items, and end up covering certain types of cork removers that work on the same principle, and maybe turkey basters:)
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They are in Northern Mexico!!! I mean California!!! I cant believe they can sell em now!!! BAN IS COMING FOR SURE!!!
 
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