General

[GunRaptor]

And people wonder why our spec ops teams always win...

Reason #247: We have knives that make you blow up.

Enter the WASP Injection Knife



WASP Injection Systems, Inc. - WASP Injection Knife

Obviously, as an MCBer, I see design flaws in it. First off, it needs a lever changer....

[volunteer paintball]

thats a great find and its pretty cool but I wonder what it'll do to something more practical. try it on a dead pig or clubbed baby seal

[HurtCow]

You can use it to give hookers huge breasts before you kill them.

[chl2onic]

It's intended for scuba diving. if you hit a shark with with that thing and pull the trigger, under 40 meters of water, it's going to be a mess down there. It's been around for a while now I saw it years ago.

[BigOldSkool]

It was developed for an anti-shark knife actually.. my father had know of it way back when he was a comercial diver.

[Conker]

while we were in iraq we tried geting those knives sent to us as a "tax writeoff". the company told us since were deployed we make enough money to buy em. we tried tho

[CanadianBlues]

Originally Posted by chl2onic

It's intended for scuba diving. if you hit a shark with with that thing and pull the trigger, under 40 meters of water, it's going to be a mess down there. It's been around for a while now I saw it years ago.

Wouldnt that blow the shark up and then blood will be in the water and attract more sharks?

[Ramous]

Originally Posted by CanadianBlues

Wouldnt that blow the shark up and then blood will be in the water and attract more sharks?

So what you have a knife that makes things explode?

[vf-xx]

Ooooollllddddd


WASP air injection knife

Still neat though.

[agentSmith]

Originally Posted by volunteer paintball

thats a great find and its pretty cool but I wonder what it'll do to something more practical. try it on a dead pig or clubbed baby seal

They found out the warranty would be void if the seal was broken, so they used a watermelon.

The idea behind bangsticks and these for sharks is that the trail, as the dead shark lifts, tends to draw the frenzy with it. If you use something like that you're already IN the worst case scenario.

The original from the 70's was called the farallon shark dart, my google got this story from a scuba forum:

Anyway, to make a long story short, whilst diving to do some transect work I had a Bull Shark start circle me and start displaying aggressively (back arched, pectorals down, etc.). The circles got smaller and smaller and finally he was in real tight and I was holding the shark’s head away from me with the billy, We were spinning from right to left. The shark flicked away from me and cut my leg rather badly with what I can only assume was his pectoral fin, he went out about fifteen feet and turned back at me, I reached over my shoulder and pulled the Shark Dart (with a shaft about two feet long attached) up out of the tube and over my shoulder. I glanced about for my Comrade Diver, but he was no where to be found.

The shark came straight at me and I fended him off with the billy, I brought the dart around and stabbed him with it. Nothing happened. I pulled the dart out of him, still with the billy pushing against his head. I could see that I’d not pulled the little orange clip off the dart to arm it.

It was one of the moments like when Butch and Sundance jump off the cliff, OH ...! I was pretty scared, I could not arm the damned thing without using my left hand (which was holding the shark off) or my teeth (which were holding my regulator). After what seemed like a long time spinning around with the billie held against the shark’s head (likely it was really five to ten seconds, but time is hard to judge in adrenal drenched retrospect) the shark once again retreated and went back into aggressive displaying I dropped the billy on its lanyard, reached up and pulled the clip off and recovered the billy as quickly as I could.

The shark charged once again, and once again I parried his head with the billy, as we started to turn I poked him hard with the dart and it went off with a woosh. I could see his guts being forced out his mouth and he went head up. I had a little trouble pulling the dart out due to the angle.

I checked my compass and headed back toward shore which was a few hundred yards away, after going a little way I decided to surface and look for Comrade Diver. He was a little ways off and was pulling the dying shark with a transect rope he’d secured about the tail. I went over to him and lent a hand. We towed it into shore and gave it to the old woman that was sort of in charge of the little village we were staying in. The cooked the whole thing up and we had a rather nice fiesta. Bull shark washed down with a bottle each of Flor de Caña Especial.

I cut the jaws out and brought them home. For years they were nailed to the wall and I used them to hang keys on. A friend of mine, an artist named Peruko Ccopacatty (http://www.aymaranet.org/PerukoCcopacatty.html) (who is a rather well know metal sculptor) saw the jaws hanging there and asked for them so that he could make me something appropriate to hold it. He made me a metal tube sculpture that is clearly squaliform, but that also looks a bit like a cross, and has the jaws mounted in it. It’s on my wall to this day.

Boy, life sure is wierd...

Rob