Net Cutter

Net cutter means various devices used to cut nets:

  • Net cutter (fisheries patrol), used by some fisheries patrol vessels to cut intruding trawlers' net lines
  • Net cutter (diver), a small handheld tool carried by scuba divers to extricate themselves if trapped in fishing net or fishing line.
  • Net cutter (submarine), a device mounted on the bows of some naval submarines to cut through anti-submarine netting.
  • Net cutter (torpedo), a device carried on the bows of some torpedoes to get through torpedo nets.
  • Long-handled bolt cutters are sometimes used as net cutters by attack frogmen riding human torpedoes and similar to cut anti-submarine netting.

Famous quotes containing the word net:

    A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)