I’m not arguing against a knife being helpful. Did you even read what I said? Did they test you by dragging you into a ship’s rail at a speed that could easily break your leg and split your skull wide open? Every crew member on every boat in the series Deadliest Catch does carry a knife so your assumption that he didn’t have a knife is just intellectual laziness.
LOL, that TV show really plays a big part on this thread.
This was a California crabber, a couple of hundred yards off the beach.
You are upset at my assumption that he didn’t have a knife, but want to fill in the story with this? “”dragging you into a ship’s rail at a speed that could easily break your leg and split your skull wide open?””
I used to set out crab traps myself, as a kid.