I've gone through various stages of thinking/preference on dive knives for spearing. First the bigger is better stage (need to cut though nets quick, chop the head off/gut big fish, etc.), quickly realised that a dagger shaped blade has advantages for dispatching fish (the Spider/mini-dagger phase), then discovered the joys of the flat RA limpet sheath and became a confirmed flat knife fan (the RA assagai/Pelaj/Omer flat knife/Picasso Tigre/T-rex phase). Having stabbed myself last year
, I'm thinking a smaller knife is all that is required & might be better/safer. The Omer Hunter is/was a v. cool small knife with a v. nicely shaped little pointy blade but I still like flat knives.
So I figured a flat version of the Omer Hunter with a full size handle & an RA limpet sheath (perhaps scaled down to size) might be my current ideal knife. Thought it might be a few years before we see such a beast but while exploring the Effesub brand (I think after Ulysses posted some info on a neat stringer they produced), lo & behold, exactly what I was looking for.
KNIFES - KF - Effesub
In fact, they took it a step further and camo'd the sheath!
Is it perfect? Not quite:
It is a little cheaper than the assegai & pelaj flat knives but it's not a cheap knife. I'm not too keen on the open heel -- not too comfortable if you need to apply some force to the butt with the heel of your hand to go through a tough fish skull (sorry). Worse thing, I just noticed the sheath uses velcro on the leg/arm straps - seems like a bad idea to me. The RA limpet sheath uses unbroken thick elastic which cannot come off -- a major feature I think.
Cool knife selection here:
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