Seeking Alternative Machine For Underwater Hunting

[Rick N. MI]

I only used a friends 1280x one time on land. It worked very well.

The Garrett Sea Hunter is waterproof to 200' and can be hip mounted. 

There is another detector. Detectorpro Headhunter Underwater has a 1280x in the headphones. Detector w/ 8" coil waterproof to 70'. Detector w/ 12" coil waterproof to 100'. 

The 1280x is 2.4 khz which isn't the best for gold. It will do good on rings. With only about a $200 difference between the 1280x and Garrett Sea Hunter. I would say the Sea Hunter Mark II is the way to go for salt water. I don't know what other pi's are available for diving.

 

 

[kac]

Detector Pro at 2.4khz is very week to gold so it might be just ok on silver rings and clad.

In the water the Seahunter with 8" coil does pretty well, 10x14 had much better depth but both will hit all targets so the discrimination may trim out some small foil but not iron nails without loosing too much. Average beaches with not too much trash the Seahunter is very good for the price.