Skull diver

I'm not in favour or against any machine involved in this test but.... Honestly, after I tested the D2, frankly speaking I don't understand the meaning to use a 0 reactivity in such condition. Also, the minimum signal still audible at that level, clearly say to investigate more. I suppose at 1.5 or 2 was the honest reactivity to put in the game. I'd love an AQ and I was one of the more interested for It, but facts are clear and there's no way for me to dive with It...Wait...when Is another unknown factor.

You'll never know until You have proof of It. Try to act in this way to intercept for weight instead of metal type. After the pulltab, do a circle around the hole moving the coil tightly. No signals?, Do another larger circle and keep trace of the coil path dragging the shovel/scoop/spade You use. Generally, You can find heavier stuff down on the slope, under the pulltab hole. On the other hand on a flat ground this can happen on the other side, far on the upper side of It. As an example, a new hump, after an erosion period Is higher than the previous level of sand. This mean that the lower level Is now on the upper side of the beach, towards the dry. In any case, I'll fly away for other spots soon as I can when this happen. Always check for firm ground under your feets. Try to keep your focus on targets and ground status.

I can only say...I'm in love with this 8" one and with the sharp sound of any hit🔥

😂😂😂😂 Actually I found an interesting middle range among two clouds and Steve's words...🙏 We'll see the next week if I'm wrong...Or not💣

Think about a workshop...how many tools are needed to do a job? Whenever you think about the usefulness of an instrument for a job, a detector could do it like another, but maybe it has something that you like best, that suits you better, that is a better sound, a more comfortable shaft. , a color you prefer. Think of those who collect cars, who may not drive, but who enjoy entering the garage, turn on the lights and take off the sheets to discover their jewels, perhaps to show them to their friend on duty. Don't you find it an expensive passion? There's simply no reason more than the moments You enjoy with it. I am saved from collecting detectors only because I was forcibly born a beach hunter, cause of my area among two coasts, almost like Florida guys. The only reason I don't have dozens of them is because as a category we are quite neglected and only today brands are starting to fight each other to churn out new technologies for this purpose. I can't even say new, maybe new marketing on it. Today I am 38 years old, I want a new instrument, I wonder if the 4 I have are not enough and I answer that I do not have a variable single frequency except for a 2.4Khz paid 170 dollars. I bought it after seeing a friend come up with a 33 gram ring. 14K, handmade, crazy. The one and only reason that ring came out is that he digs it all up. With that instrument he is forced to do it, he has only one signal. With the Tdi I would not have dug it, with the Ctx neither, With the excalibur, I have my doubts. I would still have discriminated as if it were a coin. In the room where I sleep today, I have the detectors around on their shelves. I started doing metal detecting after losing my father, only to find peace and silence and be alone on the beach. After three years of collecting garbage of any kind, I remembered my passion for diving and I started with a Cz21 to find the first pieces. I discover that I would have become a father and I sell the Fisher to raise some money by cutting the most marginal things. At that point, I stop for a few months, stuck at work and dedicating myself to my ex-partner waiting for our daughter. But I was missing a piece and all over again I bought a used Excalibur and fitted a new 8 "coil. A week before my daughter was born, during a late afternoon test with the new coil I am dragged offshore by a current and I get out of it alive thanks to two fishermens. My daughter is born and instead of stopping diving, a challenge begins between me and the seabed. I start studying geomorphology, currents, waves, winds, forecasts and I take terrible walks in search of depressions along the coast. I start reading the beach, reading the water, picking up pieces in places where no one dares. The future marriage is going to get screwed, I feel the freedom to do what I love and bring the bread home anyway. The more I know the beach, the more I know myself and the cursed scent of risk. I built a dredge, hunted over 400km of coastline, I knew only one gulf as if it were a house in which I live. Today I write for a shop, every now and then I test for some newly released instruments and I film underwater sessions with it. The golden age on the beach has already passed and since the times of Bob Trevillian and Frank Carter, finds today are a third. But we pursue dreams and freedom listening for signals. When I joined this forum, I discovered that I have seen a small piece of this world and that even today, there are technical pearls that resonate like slaps on my face. I'm far from perfect, probably one life will not be enough to get close to it, but by the time I retire, another risk awaits me, another leap into the void. I am too far from Australia, but a month of hunting for nuggets is what I hope to be able to do soon. Starting from scratch in a field where I have never had experience is still dangerous. After all, the gold hunt is like Russian roulette. Only with 4 bullets in the drum.

Thanks to those Red Lines, I'm gradually understanding the risk using filters of any kind looking for a stable tune or massive reject. I can now try to trade some acceptable falsing for the shines, instead of a numb and overly quiet machine.

Those are supposed to be the game changer for environment health.🤣 I don't know if aluminium can be safer than plastic, unless people change the attitude to leave trash and things anywhere.

A little update on the subject and......The software.... Staying to the translation, the guy said that the software in use was the factory preset 0.5. He will repeat the test with the 0.6 version. Hopefully this is only a fear for me....for the 5th machine that i hope to be the unbeatable choice.Finally.

I casually found this video and the results are actually confusing me...A lot🤐. Nothing to say for most of the programs but look what a difference on gold signals when in diving/beach and beach sens 😬. Not to mention the higher vdi reading (twice) when in mono 17Khz... Please, can someone explain what I'm seeing?

I'm glad to read this post, cause I'm maybe not far from an answer that I'm looking since a lot of time. Apparently, and maybe I'm wrong, multiple times on my Ctx when diving, I feel the machine unstable despite of a lower sensitivity or any setting included saltwater filter. I'm always in doubt, as a jewelry hunter, if a mono 18 to 24 Khz frequency can be better in salt underwater use, instead of a forced multifrequency range. I think, compared to a 70Khz machine for nuggets, a medium, maybe slightly over 17Khz frequency can do a good compromise in terms of depth and sensitivity to gold. In few words...Can a range of useless for the purpose frequencies, cause the erratic conduct of the machine?

I tell You a story... A day like dozens of others, I was searching again the same spot overworked to the death, with no signals at all and rocks barely exposed... I was with a 14x9" Coiltek and found One signal worth to dig...The chunky monster bracelet heavier than any other piece I ever found. The second day, with scarce hope after the miracle, with the 6", same place, two signals, I found thinner stuff, waiting for me ti dig them...Another slim bracelet and an ear ring🤔 Notice the difference by yourself.... Guess what coil missed the small and what was the best choice to pick up all of It the same day...

I think this Is an environment based choice maybe. I mean, if You Hunt frequently in a place where the ground Is nasty, sometimes a smaller coil can do a better job with higher sensitivity than a bigger one giving You less falsing. Less depth but more stability. On the other hand if You prefer more ground covered per swing, You might prefer an 11" to 15" paying some more noise. I hunt in the water and I still don't find an occasion when to prefer something over the 11". Personally, I'm sure some of my best finds were found with a 6" and an 8". The 9" on the Deus Is so tempting, without doubts.

I know...Rings for the Excal are like cookies 🤣. Only for the fact of the unavailable 8"coil, my second one was bought with a 10"😤.I miss the little lady. Maybe, in 2044...We'll see?😂 I'm still waiting for the Excal 3 since 2012. Time will tell if the Nokta or the XP can replace the Nox, but for now the only thing to do is to wait and sell the old stuff for a new trip. Good luck

Can You believe me if I Say that I'm in trouble for a damn handbar handle? I bought a couple of bike extensions with a bolt under, but the handle itself Is disconnected from the base and it need to be modified as well. I'm going Crazy for an Anderson handle that seems to be not available unless You buy the entire shaft😑

Can I ask You if You use a straight shaft or the original one by Minelab? Cause more than the Excalibur weight or its water resistance when submerged there's only the horror shaft to stress the user arm. Being a diver, I'm now in the process to buy another machine just cause I'm tired by my setup and with 4 detectors I still can't find the one to do the job as I want. Let's do the equation togheter, based on today owned tools: Excalibur 2....Nothing to say for depth rating and leaks, sure... /Downside... blind on thin stuff and chains. Ctx3030...Good for thin stuff, good discriminator /Downside.... Heavy, screen at 10ft. wants to crash, not to mention 3 lithium batteries already drowned, less deep than a Nox 800 compared by 11"coils. Outdated Detectorpro Underwater...A machine i bought three weeks ago...i love it, light, with an 8" coil, pretty deep...Only one clear tone so a dig it all cheap mule... /Downside...it lasted 20 minutes before lower shaft crashed on a rock hit...for the price of a pinpointer i can't cry for this. Tdi Beachunter...Deep, light on the dry and wet... /Downside--it leaks and die in few sessions at scarce 10ft down, unstable as crazy! A noisemaker when in water unless You turn up delay at 20uS min....it floats like a gas balloon. So i have a tdi SL in a yellow semi/wetsuit. Conclusion: i need frequency control, salt sensitivity manual control cause i have real saltwater in my area and this for sure doesn't allow for high frequencies without filters. Stable and large ID scale, not that the screen means something special to me, but cause of a digital machine, why not to check both audio and numbers if they are there? A fuc...ng straight shaft with no S handle in 2022. A multiple choice of a manual modified mono or multi frequency mode. No buoyancy of any kind. Will be the Deus 2 the answer?.............For the God sake.......................... Maybe

From my point of view, even at a similar if not equal VDI number, those finds are usually not "friends". I mean rarely You can find it togheter in the same spot, unless on the dry where things can be a mess. Usually on the wet and the surf a good division is done by the water motion so You can expect the pull tab far and higher from the low tide line and conversely the ring lower down from there to...Anywhere.... I repeat, usually...So dig it all still is a good advice, trust me... You can see also today a bottlecap reject on the D2 and not a Pulltab reject....Same VDI results by shape and size...Sorry... By the way, editing this reply I forgot to write the number 7, which again means nothing to trust to, but usually on the ctx this is most of the time a pulltab shown at 12.07... On the Vanquish I think must be an higher value due to the different VDI scale.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I want too a real treshold sound on my Ctx like I have it on my Excal and my Underwater...But with Digital machines this can only be a fake One😬

Seen right now🙏. Many thanks 🔥

I know, maybe like me, there's an army of hunters waiting for the answer... BUT... What actually bring the Deus 2 under my eyes is only this magic attitude that right now this machine seems to have. To make things complicated here, there's really salt water and I hope to fight with the salt sens. the trouble. My planet is under the surface 99% of times as I don't know the meaning of a low tide if not completely submerged. For the kind of coast I usually hunt, I rarely I see erosion's visible traces and for the most, I blind dive until I know where the "ground zero" can hide to me and the coil. So I feel sorry for all the beautiful images proudly produced and shared with big effort, but I still need to see what happen IF an open thin chain is gently sleeping under the sand at few inches with a bloody salty environment around the coil... One day I'll dive for the science or at least for the answer... I

Even if in Europe the machine will be available sooner, due to the factory position advantage, there's no trace of a confirmed load among official dealers. I'm still waiting for an answer even for the final price with a BH01 headphone not to mention that I'm under spotlights in Italy cause I make digital contents for them. It's a crap.

I'm satisfied to say You're right! Even if I was far out of the hot area in pretty sanded in conditions, I found at some depth rocks and red clay nicely passing the test with 26/28 manual sens. and ground/Coin separation. The only bad thing Is the swing speed that I need to keep so well the machine...Really really slow movement. Next dive Will be with 9, As I literally saw the difference with 11 and 8. With almost no Sand and channel 11, the machine react not only to micro lead balls but ground too raising noise to signal ratio. On the other hand at channel 7 I found the machine to be more prone to big sinkers 🤔. This actually was expected at channel 1. So I'm a bit confused cause talking about a full spectrum and not a lone frequency, I want to use amost 22Khz if not less and this can only happen on channel 1... I'm however writing bulls... until I don't try personally. Depth was better than usual when on 8...It's a fact.

That gold ring worth all of the trash You found🙏

Today I´m preparing for tomorrow dive in my usual and devastated gulf spot... After the shaft accident with the new toy the last week, Ive been captured by a stupid doubt... What about the use of a single frequency on the Ctx ? I know, this thing isn´t possible due to the kind of machine with an FBS range continuously at work, but somewhere I found a text related to the noise cancel channel and the different frequency in use... So In these years, I think the succesful use of a frequency among 15 and 20 Khz in salty environment it is not a secret anymore but what about this particular machine stated at 1 to 100Khz? So tomorrow morning I want to try all of the 11 channels and manual settings for sensitivity and noise cancel, adding the ground/coin separation that for sure is the more stable giving a less jumpy target ID... Feel free to laugh at this post but I feel like a child again...

Thanks for the idea!🔥 I think a thick PVC tube can make a good sleeve over the wheels. Drift trikes usually has this solution onboard💣

Thanks...I checked this type but not so good for me especially cause of the harsh terrain full of things ready to make punctures😔