Although used in climbing, the water knot is considered unsafe.

These results validate the need to leave long tails and inspect water knots before each use.

The offset water knot is a knot used to join two ropes together.

Long used by weavers to join the ends of yarn, the offset water knot is very old.

Knots that are very difficult to untie, such as the water knot, are said to "jam".

Water knot for tying a knot in flat material such as nylon webbing.

The most popular knots in webbing are the water knot and the grapevine knot.

Testing has shown the water knot to slip very slightly, but very consistently, with each load and unload cycle.

The offset water knot is formed by holding two rope ends next to each other and tying an overhand knot in them as if they were a single line.

In rock climbing, the offset water knot is a favored knot for joining two ropes for a rappel longer than half the length of the ropes.

A kind of proto- climbing harness consisting of a long length of tubular webbing wrapped several times around the climbers body and secured with a water knot.

Webbing for slings, also known as tape, is sold off the reel, cut to length with a hot knife to prevent fraying, and tied as desired with a water knot.

Easily formed in most line, the offset water knot can be difficult or impossible to untie once tightened, if the knot's dressing has parts falling out of a neat, parallel ("twin") orientation.

However, the beer knot can be more difficult to tie than the water knot, and one of the tails is hidden from view, making safety checks for adequate tail length more difficult.

The water knot (also tape knot, ring bend, grass knot, or overhand follow-through) is a knot frequently used in climbing for joining two ends of webbing together, for instance when making a sling.

The overhand knot is one of the most fundamental knots and forms the basis of many others including the simple noose, overhand loop, angler's loop, reef knot, fisherman's knot and water knot.

It is also important to note that only nylon can be safely knotted into a runner (usually using a water knot or beer knot), Dyneema is always sewn because the fibers are too slippery to hold a knot under weight.

To tie the grief knot, tie a single "overhand knot" (nb: this isn't the same as a single-strand "overhand knot" often used as a stopper or as a component of other knots, such as the fisherman's knot or ring water knot), as if starting a reef knot.