Knife
treefrog
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Today I went swimming "off piste" in that I went open water swimming in an popular and approved lake but with no life guard etc. Now I am not a great swimmer but I have a couple of Winters with at least one hour per week swimming and I have completed several tri's and LD tri's - anyway I got badly tangled up in weeds to the point that I had to stop and take stock.
Tomorrow I am going to my local diving supplies for a stainless steel knife - Discuss!
Tomorrow I am going to my local diving supplies for a stainless steel knife - Discuss!
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There is always the possibility of getting in to trouble swimming, however good a swimmer you are.
I used to know a guy back where I used to live in hereford, who was ex-SAS and a very very confident swimmer. He was the dad of one of my mates who went on the bus.
He lived in a village called fownhope, which lies on the river wye, and used to go to the pub in a small village on the other side of the river. Going round would be a 20mile or so round journey, so he used to swim across the river with his clothes in a bag, and put them back on the other side, he would then swim back later in the night.
He did this regularly for about 10 years, then one day he never came back. His body was found a few miles down the river, it was believed he may have got caught up in the weeds, as he had removed the knife he kept for such an event.
Just my opinion
Personally I have had far too many people die around me recently, that I believe most people take their own life for granted, and put themselves at needless risk.
I also spend all day in a hospital often talking to people who have done stupid things and will live to regret them (like the young guy who decided to go for a midnight swim in hotel swimming pool, despite the warning signs. It had just been chlorinated, which severely burnt his lungs, he now can't walk for more than 5 mins because he can't breath. He will be like that for the rest of his life).
theres no place for knives in triathlon
R u sure that you are in the right sport, i.e. - should you not be sitting up on some tree stand as your name implies? Focus on blasting away some Bambi's with your redneck buddies and leave the lakes safe for the rest of us!
As an aside would movie quotes please be placed in inverted commas and to avoid confusion add the characters name.The quote given is used twice in the film by 2 different characters and in two different contexts.Don't they teach anything in school these days.
I am not sure how this would be attached to a wetsuit though.
I'm rather sad to see the knee-jerk "Knives are dangerous and illegal" attitude appearing here. I nearly always have a knife/multitool about my person somewhere, to open parcels, cut my knitting yarn, slice my lunchtime apple, mend my computer printer, do up the screws in my glasses etc. Those of you who are horrified at the idea should perhaps consider that the Government nannies have successfully brainwashed you.