Better to have a knife and not need it, than to need a knife and not have it.At the same time, you don't want to swim around with a Samurai sword strappedto your leg. This is where the MAKO STAINLESS excels. It is compact enough toeasily strap to a leg or forearm or mount on a BCD, yet its large enough tohold onto with confidence when it's time to do some cutting. The MAKOs multi-function blade has a serrated edge for sawing through rope, a conventionaledge for making clean slicing cuts, a line-cutting notch, and a bottle opener.The Tanto tip, with its angled shape, is one of the strongest knife pointsavailable and, combined with the different blade edges, makes the MAKOSTAINLESS an excellent general-purpose dive knife.