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Originally Posted by VINMAN View Post
We have pretty much phased out the bowline in the rope rescue world, years ago. It isn't a life safety knot. We will use it to connect a tag line on a litter or something similar., but thats about it.

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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
What do you use instead?
Exactly my thought, you can't drop a bomb like "we haven't used the bowline as a rescue knot in years" without telling us what the replacement is.
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