Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Recreation/Knot Tying/10/en
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6. Do the following to rope:
a. Splice
A splice is used to join the ends of two ropes and results in the spliced part being about twice as thick as the non spliced part. The short splice retains more of the rope strength than any knots that join rope ends. It is tied using the same techniques as the eye splice (see below).