Emerson made the change on this model, which was designated the NSAR (Navy Search And Rescue) Knife and only made available to the United States Navy. In 2005, the Navy changed the requirements on the SARK to incorporate a guthook on the back of the blade for use as a line-cutter. The P-SARK has been adopted by a number of law enforcement agencies since that time. Bolke wrote the knife policy for his department, the first of its kind in the United States. Emerson replaced the blunt end of the SARK with a pointed end and named it the "P-SARK", or Police Search And Rescue Knife.
Bolke's request was to make the tip of the blade pointed rather than blunt.
Seeing another need in the police community, Senior Corporal Darryl Bolke, a police officer of the Ontario Police Department, approached Emerson and asked for a modification to the SARK.
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The SARK is a folding knife with a wharncliffe-style blade and a blunt tip designed so that a rescuer could cut trapped victims free without stabbing them. The Navy found that the knife met its needs, and the model was dubbed the "SARK" (Search and Rescue Knife). The Navy went to Emerson Knives, Inc., whose owner, Ernest Emerson, designed and fabricated a working prototype within 24 hours. The KA-BAR knives issued to the Special Boat Units (SBUs) had catastrophically failed to cut the marines free from their webbing. After a helicopter crash in 1999, which resulted in the deaths of six marines and one sailor, the United States Navy performed an assessment of its equipment and decided, among other things, that it needed a new search and rescue knife.
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