David Thompson <<sen144sormrmtn>>
writes:

When towing in any form it is advantageous to any pilot to be able
to get to a knife. Many years ago due to something that happened, following that
experience I found a nice scuba diving shop and invested in 5 knives all double
sided more than or just as razor sharp.

Three are sewn to my tow harness, the largest, a 6 inch, is in a one button
release sheath sewn right between my shoulder straps at my chest rib cage and
dearest near my heart. The other two out of the five are Velcro attached which I
have strapped to either my upper shoulder strap or my left or right arm
depending on where I place them.

When you need a sharp knife one must be able to get to it no matter what.

Years later I had something happen while aero towing in North Carolina when I
only used a single barrel release. The opposite end of the release line attached
to my two shoulder straps tangled at the point of the tow line snagging and
would not come undone. I was being towed by one shoulder strap basically. In the
amount of time you can count, one thousand, two one thousand, three one
thousand, I reached for used my emergency sharpest escape plan.

During the three one thousand count I had unsuccessful yanked the dam rope and
it still wouldn't budge, so I used the thumb quick release of the large sharp
sheath double sided diving knife which is on a two foot bungee cord so it can
not be separated from the sheath I had sewn to my harness between my shoulder
straps nearest my heart

I pulled the knife out to cut away quickly.