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Skull diver

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  1. And it is the cause of so much beauty. Pieces like these are seen less and less, and to give them away as scrap is sorry, but necessary.
  2. After a busy October in a spot I wouldn't have put a dime on, I returned after doing two more sessions on another stretch of coastline and returning home with coins and steel bracelets ready for the dustbin... After more than an ounce here behind me, now certain that I have checked 99 percent of the small gulf reduced to pebbles and clay with a veil of sand, this little pendant closes the party and wraps up November by now as more serious storms loom and I move away from the bottom. I'm starting to take serious note of data and timelines, because while it's not an exact science, the puzzle is composed of too many factors, and creating a pattern intrigues me. Have a great sunday you all.
  3. It sounds really inviting as a start🫢... A good reason to go back and explore again.
  4. Heavy stuff...Interesting area...Go back there as soon as You can🤞
  5. Exactly. When you have at least one landmark, you can dissect an area and eventually go back after you have ruled it out. Although I only hunt in the water and years ago I left an army of other hunters on the shore to do pro bono retrievals, at least three times I ran in the middle of summer, with the beach full of people, carrying a harness, 15lt tank and a couple of detectors. To do what? Ask the lifeguard for assistance and keep people away from the spot that was described to me, find a bottom chock-full of aluminum and fresh drops of any kind less than metal, come out about three hours later with a host of onlookers waiting for a result and say...Nothing, I found nothing sorry. At that point it is a matter of explaining a reality that people do not understand. No one likes to trip over rocks while trying to get into the water for a swim, so clear waters and a soft bottom for walking are chosen. Too bad time runs fast and any piece disappears swallowed up in the blink of an eye, assuming you are in the exact spot. Even a current on flat clay can do crazy things without the water appearing choppy on the surface. So I stopped with on-call retrievals.They think I'm putting something in my pocket by not paying myself, but on the contrary I'm losing time, diesel, air and maybe someone thinks I'm keeping their stuff for myself! In Europe there is just no culture of paying back an effort.Sad.
  6. Three out of four found again is an outstanding achievement! I hold the reverse record in finding any other piece I am not looking for on specific directions from the unfortunate. Almost no one has a clear idea of where and when they lose the stuff.And when you get specific instructions, it remains to be seen if it's not what they believe to be real and what happened on the beach immediately afterward.
  7. It's part of the game.Even with the best conditions, it can always be a spot that has been beaten before. On the other hand, last month I produced almost an ounce in a spot I wouldn't have put a penny on
  8. I've been faster than tides but someone else was faster than me cleaning the good stuff😑. Like i wrote, I just found lot of lead and some coins.
  9. Unfortunately, the exception to the rule struck. In spite of an almost sandless and dismantled bottom, I found nothing but quite a lot of lead and a few coins. Being very light with only a ballast harness and snorkel, I was able to move and search for a long stretch of beach but the farther I got from the point of maximum erosion, the worse the signals were, reduced to only shallow or deep aluminum and therefore badly sanded in...
  10. Being a diver, I'll do this morning a snorkeling session to check the surrounding area under the cut.There's just a couple hours window but without any doubt this is prime ground. When Mother Nature shows you the foundations of the beach, the variations are two: either you take it all or someone has already done it.So, crossed fingers...
  11. While scouting this morning, I came across a stretch of coastline and... You know what I mean.
  12. For sure stainless steel type isn't cheap but on the other hand those last quite some time.
  13. Well, let me know how much you get paid for a pound of product🫢
  14. I don't have an answer to your question but I damn like this piece🧐.
  15. I can confirm the same impression. It was 2013, when almost daily I was diving with a colleague looking for highly-visited areas along the coast, and every week we counted about 30/40g each. So in ten years, according to today's numbers, one should be satisfied if in a week we get to 10/15g. And according to these numbers, whatever spot produces more in less time deserves more visits, otherwise it is to be considered burned.
  16. At today's change it's 225,70$ . A piece like this every session and it would be great🤣
  17. Old beauties to be never seen again in the future
  18. With the arrival of new, increasingly high-performance tools and the informative spread of the Internet, the number of finds has decreased dramatically. On the other hand, due to international events and the market, gold prices have skyrocketed recently. Although I have owned Deus2 since last March, I only managed to make seven dives in the month of October. I must admit that a series of 6 out of 7 lucky sessions were productive, and incredibly the Deus2 paid for itself completely. I am quite busy over the summer, but I am finally starting to communicate with the instrument as I should. Below is the latest piece from a few days ago.
  19. Those waves are really rare here in Italy. Although Sardinia is very exposed to intense energy, it remains a spot too far to reach by sea before the conditions disappear, and by air it can cost a fortune to transport my equipment. Renting at local dives involves having a rental vehicle increasing the skyrocketing costs. So I stay in the basin protected from serious waves, but easier to control.
  20. At least an award for your patience, congratulations!
  21. I have a long abandoned project due to lack of time, but on the basis of a wheelbarrow, with the addition of a steering axle, I would like to hook up an electric winch with gear and chain for traction. It is the only motor capable of towing a boat with sufficient force, and although at reduced speed, it will bear carriages of up to 1,000 kg. I am afraid it is the only one that can withstand harness, tank, dpv and accessories. That's why I'm trying to change air sources.All of this is not only a lot of equipment to carry, but also to look after while you're diving.Easy prey for idiots with no better occupation than snooping through other people's stuff.
  22. There's a joke here, but what if I told you that since 2005 I've found in at least three spots a slew of brand-new washers purposely thrown into the water? Somewhere there is always someone who thinks they own a spot, and there is no shortage of imagination.
  23. I would do it with a slingshot 🤣. With a good slant you could reach about 150 meters from the launch point and litter a beach after clearing it of better things🫢🏴‍☠️
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