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So, it's been awhile since I remember seeing any info on this subject; may have missed some🤔 But has anyone that water hunts (fresh, brackish, and salt) had any sightings, or scares, involving sharks? Lots of rumors out there that PI detectors attract sharks; haven't seen any info about VLF's, or Mult-Q! What are you thoughts or stories?? Bull sharks are known to frequent all salinities of water, accessible from the ocean! I do know that there are several electronic devices on the market, that are specifically designed and "proven"? to deter sharks in a limited radius of the wearer, used by surfers and divers! But weather or not a detector may interfere with their operation, probably hasn't been tested! Thanks for any info!🍀👍👍

So, been quite awhile since I have posted any good finds, not for lack of trying! I'm not as skilled or as lucky as many on this forum! But I had an interesting situation at one of my local beaches that was a learning experience, and actually sorta fun! I'm not generally a water hunter by "trade" for various reasons! One of the most notable, is that in a good part of my "detecting range", it is highly illegal to water hunt due to treasure leases with the State of Florida! Most of which are "owned" by the Mel Fisher family, which sublease to Treasure Coast salvagers, and are highly monitored by them, and law enforcement! So that's my disclaimer, and information for the unknowing! But there are beach water area's that are fair game for those who don't mind the generally murky water, and constant wave battering! One of those areas had an unexpected sand stripping event several day's ago that I had to try my hand at searching! Now to be up front, no treasure, or even clad was found in the water!😵 But nonetheless, it taught me much about the specific geology of the area, and how to search it! It was a rapid learning curve, as the monthly low tides don't wait for anyone to get there s**t together! I was using the Manticore with the M15 the first day, as I had hit a few beaches, and on the way home, stopped at this one! It is definitely too large for wavy water, and was overwhelmed by multiple targets! Nonetheless I managed a handful of lead and some beach clad up on the sand! Oh, and by the way, a scoop is useless in this situation, and I got tired of tossing it on the beach, or keeping track of where the waves took it! So, I come back day two a bit wiser, and ready to rumble! Waterproof headphones, my M9 coil with green bumper, and armor on my coil cable to prevent ruining it on the rocks, and left the scoop in the truck! I thought for sure I was gonna get at least a ring or two with my lead weights this time!🥁 And no🤯; but a crap load of mostly old lead, and way too many signals to dig in an hour! So, the last day, at now the "not so low" tide, half the rocks were covered, and the water was near zero visibility, so search and especially recovery was slow!😵 I was just able to managed a few more sinkers; still a ton of signals, some of which were the same aluminum can bottoms locked under the shelves, that i hit the previous two days, and it was done! No treasures!😬 So, in F350 fashion, I saved the "best" for last! I detected up the slope leaving the beachfront, into and old grassy area on the way to the shower! I got two pennies, but one was a 1927 wheatie, so it wasn't a total loss! I was rewarded immediately by some hidden fire ants that lit me up, as soon as i filled my hole!🤬 I will have the ankle scars to remember that find! I gained valuable experience, along with the makings of a potential ammo loading hobby!😉 And some great exercise! I haven't tallied up all the lead, but I'd say it was north of 100! I'm still convinced that the rings are in there, somewhere, but that will have to be another story some day!🤞🍀👍👍

Just back from a week in the Outer Banks, got out every morning detecting most of a 15 mile strip. My new watch says I averaged about 7 miles a day. I wasn't expecting much, the tides weren't really in my favor and not negative when they were, the surf was pretty high most of the week. The first day I used the Deus 2, and did fairly well right away in the wet, so I was hopeful. I spent the rest of the week using the Manticore, switching back and forth between One Tone and 5 region all tones using the M9 one day, and the M15 for the remainder. My main program is Beach Surf and Seawater with Dankowski ferrous limits. I find one One Tone especially useful in the surf and wet sand, down there you just want to know what is ferrous and not. I ran sensitivity mostly at 29 or 30, recovery at 6, (@midalake setting) and was constantly amazed at how deep it hit targets. You get your IDs, and the detector will do a double iron tone when the target is definitely iron. Pretty reliable. I also use Enhanced Audio because you can turn up sensitivity and only hear a light chatter, the targets are very loud. This overall makes the Manticore a killer on the beach. Here's a typical first day out with either detector pic, first the Deus: And then the Manticore: By the end of the week the trash was down to less than the finds. I did better in Myrtle Beach, but fairly well here, I only saw 2 detectorists the whole week, and people said they didn't see any either. 63 coins including a '21 Half dollar I found the first day at an old motel, got a nice but cheap Cabela's knife, a battery device for smoking weed, a toe pick, some junk jewelry including a pair of gold plated earrings, and of course a Hot Wheel I dug while looking for an earring a woman thought she lost in a certain place. I didn't find it. Got 3 rings, Tungsten, Titanium and silver: The silver Ankh ring I found the first day at low tide with the Deus, the others with the Manticore which I find better with low conductors. The Tungsten ring was over a foot down. It fits my wife so it was yet another Mother's Day gift. I was pleased to get 3 rings, and am looking forward to my return there in July, that week is all negative tides starting early in the morning. There are reported wrecks along this strip and this find freaked me out, but it's zinc and you can get a bag of them for a kiddie treasure hunt for about $10: Oh well. It was fun in the sun, I met a lot of nice people, and spent the rest of the days shopping, eating at great restaurants, and bombing around town in our golf cart. 🙂 🍀

Saw a post where another user scooped the availability of the Deus 2 V3.02 software, I happened to have a spare RC unit on a shaft with the 9" coil rigged up for water with the antenna, so it was a no brainer to just go ahead and update the RC, and the spare WSA II headphones I have. It took 3 attempts, but I got the RC done, and the headphones updated the first time. It wasn't hard to put my programs back in, both Beach and Relic, I didn't really notice any major differences in the menus. Nothing at all, actually. Everything was where it was before. I quickly threw everything in the truck along with my scoop and went to the beach. Beautiful day today, and ironically it was also just minutes from low tide when I got there. 🥳 I started out in the water, and immediately noticed the difference in the software - the machine was much quieter in the water, it still has the spurious blips and some bump sensitivity, but hey, sensitivity was 93. Otherwise It was silent. It was even more silent on the beach at sensitivity 95, I couldn't be more thrilled. 🙂 There is no EMI at this beach, and no black sand today. The recent rain even kept the jellyfish to a minimum, so I went in barefoot knee deep. Some of the targets were pretty deep, but the jury is out on depth. 🤔 Here's the trash: At reactivity of 2 and AR at 6, I was quite pleased at the loud response of the detector even over the tiny stuff. One piece of iron in the photo went off loudly, but I couldn't find it with the pinpointer! It really found some small stuff. 👍 I got some light iron tones in the dry, and dug a couple of toys: They're plastic except for a spring in one and screws in the other. Tiny screws. Higher on the beach I found a few coins: They were the same IDs as usual, 84 for Zincolns, and 63 for the nickel. I don't do air tests, I was going to drop a nickel, quarter, dime and penny on the sand, but I'll let y'all do that, I prefer finds in situ. 😏 I did have one issue, 3 times the detector stopped working, I had to wait for the coil to be rediscovered and reconnected. It just dropped out. At first I thought it was my antenna, but one time I saw the reconnect so this beta is definitely a beta 🙄. I have no idea what causes it. Pinpointing is better, audio is louder, I was using the 9" so I nailed the targets mostly on the first scoop. 👍 The one thing that really impressed me so far is the stability, the increased volume, and pinpointing seems more accurate. It also really finds small stuff! More to come, I'll be taking it out for a relic hunt soon. 🍀

Some storms rolled through and moved sand. Hit a beach that is usually slow (lucky to find 3 coins) and sanded in. Walked past most spots and targeted the steepest black sand cuts I could find. Coins came at regular intervals, with many 1980s to 1990s dates. Pleasantly surprised by the ring, which was heavily encrusted with gray before cleaning. Only 1 pulltab, 45+ coins in 2 hours. Ran XTerra Elite in Beach 1, with depth tones, heavy surf, no headphones required with volume at 25. Thanks for looking.

I used my Manticore in the ocean surf for the first time yesterday in Beach Surf/Seawater mode. Though it detected quite well finding targets so deep I couldn't even recover them, the pinpoint function did no seem to lock on and work very well. Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes indeed, Caribbean has the scenic beauty of white sand tropical beaches with 80 degree warm muscle relaxing waters and Golden Nuggets beneath our feet. As one who lives in the 4 distinct seasons of Idaho, my passion to swing a detector in the winter months is practically nonexistent. So near 15 yrs ago when I was in the prime of chasing heavy yellow minerals with a metal detector, I read an article in a Treasure magazine about guys swinging Caribbean while finding gobs of gold and platinum jewelry. It was at that time, I decided to take my Staff and wives down for a week vacation and learn some warm water beaches of Caribbean Sea. Finds for us the first few trips were plentiful with hundreds of interesting coins from differing countries all over the planet. We found jewelry as well and some really odd treasures but the Gold and Platinum rewards we dreamed of were not what we had expected. Those first couple trips reminded me of the 1st times I started chasing raw gold with a detector and quickly realizing how hard it actually is to take the gold home. Yes!!!! We did discover a few cherished “nuggets” of gold and or platinum finds, but boy, nothing like the number of recoveries we had expected. Those few far and in between treasures kept us going though. 14K with 40+ diamond chips. Finds like this will keep you going back. Each trip we learned from the previous years experiences and tried to take the best from them. We adventured to different beaches, tried new strategies, while testing various kinds of gear and techniques. All the while we are determined to teach ourselves to get better at the hunt of those warm water nuggets. Here it is 15 yrs older, at least 30 trips more wise and the Nuggets are shining through if we put the time and effort into it. Even today, its almost like natural gold Prospecting, where location, techniques and hard body aching work with a little luck and you get rewarded with some Au to rattle on the drive home. Below is the wrap of my recent winter Nugget Hunt in the warm tropical Caribbean Sea. Yes, it shined a little heavy metal and my efforts of previous trips, adjustments and tide chart readings = Success. All because of eye catching pics in an article I read approx 20 yrs ago in a Treasure Magazine, I think I’m starting to dial in and bring home some of those jewelry Nuggets from the Sea… and a really bad ear infection, which I’m still fighting and on antibiotics. Total = 40+ rings (I left a few for the hotel staff) Gold jewelry count = 11 Total weight of Gold = 1.960 oz Hopefully you enjoyed the read and pics of hard work and many hrs of swinging. PS. If Tungsten, Titanium and Stainless wedding bands were worth anything, I'd be rich. 14 of those and some of them are 10+ grams each. The changing of times I guess.

Last time I posted the weekly wrap up, I mentioned the scarcity of decent variations to the layers and what happened in only one day it was like a personal blessing, a gift. This happened in the first days of December and now, again, I found myself to feel low expectations cause since those days, nothing but few deep coins were appearing. I always say that wetsand work and seabed work are different games and more or less it is a reliable cycle to keep in mind some of the sand movements. Actually other variables causes this "workable window" or a total waste of time from day to day, from tide to tide, so hours between a nice almost uncovered ground, to a deep buried hell to dig insanely. Structures, primarily, can make a good spot where the least You hope for it and this happened days ago. No matter how many times I've been searching in this spot, with or without dive buddy, the continuously different shape on the seabed still makes for an educational chart made of environment and its historical nature. Before to claim a magic formula, something I will never aim for, I just think to have been on a vortex influenced area. No other explanation cause the nuisance picture behind me to the shore it was "something". Tons of soft sand, plastic, wood and seaweeds on a previously rocky boulders ground days before. Not that far, a relatively small stretch, insanely productive of old greenies and some gold share. Well, before to make it longer than what it should be, I found among tons of coins two rings, one of them being ss with a fake stone, a small, thin white gold band, a bangle bracelet and a wedding band alone in another spot, cause I was still tired by the long walk to reach the magic hole... I Wish You a Merry Christmas with peace and blessings for your houses. Skull

Since November 21th, the day I pulled out the last wedding band and by the way the last gold piece too, till yesterday, the finds were poors and scattered randomly among spots.. Nothing more than coins and usual garbage to record. No real good energy to move some sand somewhere out of sight, but a decent opening on a small stretch after a long waiting week. And I've been blessed to be the first to check it. God gave me these pieces all at once without any particular effort and almost 99% of these beauties were surprisingly exposed in plain sight laying on the rockbed ready to be pulled up. An insane amount of steel rings, plated rings and coins were just there in front of me, behind, to the left, to the right.... Everywhere... I don't even used the scuba tank to dig as I was next to the low tide time and with only a dry snorkel I searched the area with an hard to explain joyful mood. I was like drunk, with big eyes, smiling and screaming at every ring being it fake or real. I haven't had a day like this since years. In the picture with coins and the Ss bracelet, some more steel rings are out of sight and if I'm correct, in total I found 15 of them and a plastic one. In the other picture, a wedding band, a navy chain bracelet and a rope bracelet, a little charm and a fake ear ring with ss stamp. Still tbt with acid, but it doesn't matter, I'm Happy like I wasn't since ages...

After a long period of observation only, due to the insistent swell and lack of suitable diving conditions, this week, of the only three days available for research, only yesterday morning I was able to pull out a piece. Lately I have found myself having to perform various maintenance on the surface compressor, and just yesterday, as soon as I found a promising pit, the air line tube exploded right at the moment to start the dive. A new set of fittings that were really effective against pressure loss, however, injured part of the pipe and a failure occurred at the absolute worst time. To complete the disaster, the brand new drysuit was creating some more float than prevented and the ballast I had on me, well, too light apparently. I had to get back to the base to leave the compressor and arm myself with an air tank and more lead ballast in a hurry, because just an hour later the storm would again raise waves to the point where it was no longer safe on the seabed. Returning again to the same spot, I finally managed to find some decent signals, and one among them was a wedding ring standing perfectly upright in a hole between the rocks. 3.22grams of 18K to close three days of nothing but aluminium and a few exposed rocks among tons of sand. Hard to describe the releaf I felt yesterday...I'm seriously meditating for a return to scuba harness and a floating platform with spare air to change as needed. Have a great weekend You all !

Slow week this last, after missing about ten days and as many sessions due to the storm. As is often the case, again the first few hours after a not too pronounced but annoying energy revealed no particular changes on the bottom, perhaps for the worse to be honest. In any case, a short chapter of three days and two out of 3 productive sessions closes today. After an increase in finds, an average under 10g per week returns stable. Happy weekend to all of you

Although I have serious doubts about where and when these finds appeared, this is an eloquent picture of the beginning of the games. For the first time this year, grams touch an old level that was distant in memory. The bottom is gradually yielding its graces even if in small doses. A much needed breath of fresh air. Happy weekend to all of you

Occasionally, there are days when a certain connection with the divine is felt more. Translated to our area, finding objects such as crucifixes, medals with holy icons, seems to be a double blessing. Not only did I have only three sessions this week between two storms, one past and another on the way, but only two productive days. The seabed is gradually changing for the better and the coming of winter will soon make a difference. I thank heaven for what I have been given. Have a great weekend everyone!

Educational week just passed. After a brief uptick in finds last week, I have concluded that the layer in the shallows is indeed still unpassable. Armed with good old Excalibur, this time I found myself in much deeper water and farther from shore. Forced to exercise exceptional caution with the surface compressor, I went where I usually use a scuba cylinder. Monday through Wednesday, three different spots and six pieces totaling about 15 grams. Once again blessed with a change of plan. Short break due to storm in progress, then starting again next Wednesday. Have a great weekend You all!

Slow... There's no other word to describe this last week, for the rythm, for the finds, for the sand back to the highest level and people between me and the water everywhere, again. I got back from France Monday night and due to Atc problems the flight was delayed with clear consequences and a few hours to recover after a heavy rain and "gym training" weekend in EuroDisney. This makes me to be late at the beach and Tuesday morning I'm almost unable to wear my wetsuit and bring the usual artillery around. I decide to go on the wetsand and relax with the shovel and waders. Being in one of the less attained spots, by me and by people, I slowly cover a stretch of brand new sand and due to the lack of coins and tons of foils I decide to move away. 20 minutes road to discover a better ground far from there, but the new invasion of beach late warriors get me crazy as hell. Not now, not again! So without to spend even a minute more, I move away to another spot, this time at half an hour from the previous. Again, there's peoples from I don't know where, but the last summer window in my area it is like a revolution for them and the "beach call" brings them back between my feets. I decide to call it a day as I don't hunt anymore among peoples, not in the water, not on the wetsand. Wednesday morning, same far spot, this time early, the water was not that calm and heavy waves were pushing me inshore consistently. Two hours fight and nasty compressor rollover makes for a quit but I insisted and found a small ring, at least to see the lovely colour again. Nothing more than some coins and less of a gram of 18K in total. Thursday morning, with an old friend and dive buddy, together we've been at a special beach under a Castle, after the beach owner removed all of umbrellas and sun chairs, We were expecting some peace, at least. Of course, We found even less coins and more and more people from abroad swimming over our heads when diving🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬. To close quickly this tragedy, even this morning, with heavy equipment, there was like two meters of sand not far from the first drop off and this, in the home gulf it is a sign of patience needed. I can't calculate how much fresh drops are buried under the gulf now, but I need back a dredge or an efficient device that can blow overburden fastly.It is not a quick job, it is a nightmare back from many years ago. Have a great weekend all of You.

Only a very few times during the year, can there be tides that allow you to get to areas not often seen. Last week was such a tide for many years I had not seen that I could recall, the bigger the tide, the bigger the drop. Many years ago I discovered this spot here in England by chance when out fishing at night. Always looking for places what I could see in the headlight was an area which had a lot of bits of pottery & quite a few marbles with the odd coin lying round. Months later on a big tide I took my Compass out there and discovered a great spot. An old water drain finished here & everything that was lost down sinks, baths, and streets came down this pipe & fanned out below. Its a large solid bed of iron filled with everything you can possibly imagine. Over time, I've detected, chiselled and dug this place whenever possible. Had everything from Gold coins, jewellery, cutlery, toys, badges, buttons & much more. One of the commonest items are toothpaste & ointment tubes made from lead alloy. This and the masses of cutlery, was the clue to its origins along with hundreds of brass dress pins & old brass nappy/dyapier pins. The pipe was seemingly in operation from 1880 to 1943 then not used at all. I had two dawn runs there just, the first time this year to be able to access the spot which is a half mile from the seawall. First time, I dug a channel to empty water out a deeper pool area so I could get in there with the Manti & M8. The iron is not the problem, I work that ground all the time - its the responses from the absolute masses of non-ferrous bits. Besides digging & chiselling out using a detector is really difficult. The only method I have is to block out the first 20 positive signals, this eradicates the majority of small NF stuff. Also, I really tighten up the upper & lower ferrous settings. Two sessions gave the results pictured. I particularly like the naval & shipping line company buttons & the Military badges, one is Royal Marine Light Infantry WW1, Master Gunners Badge and the best is a Regiment from the city of Liverpool, also WW1. Many foreign coins have turned up here including a Wheat cent on this occasion. Many finds are locked in concreted iron & need chipping out. The pearl handled silver fruit knife being a great example along with the 1889 silver spoon. The barrel jellyfish would make a great fossil in the distant future! The Manti's audio is a key element in working these highly unusual places. A long wait until the next time..

Yesterday, we were at the end of a king tide cycle in S. Carolina. I went to the beach at dead low tide to work in the water say maybe up to a foot deep. Since this area isn't frequently exposed, I wanted to do weak signal work. Now, mind you this is a trashy, USA beach... where they do beach bonfires. There is tons of aluminum slag, pull tabs, etc. I had the sensitivity jacked up in the 22-25 region. EMI is a big problem here, since I hunt along "hotel row". Get the machine all settled down... As I would swing across an area I'd get a little response. Turn 90 degrees to narrow the area, and get a little response. Readings from 11-55, chirpy and faint, erratic. Dig down 1-3 scoops and the signal(s) disappear completely. If I hadn't got signal in both X and Y planes, I'd have moved along, thinking the machine is giving a false reading. What is going on here? Is it me, the machine, external factors or a combination of all the above? Working in beach mode, wet. Ground balance fixed on (0) zero.

Amphibious week is the theme of this latest Friday update that I have been publishing for some time... With a really uncertain weather picture and some pretty impressive waves, I've been trying to take advantage of the first hints of erosion where I could dare.I'm starting to not remember where and under what conditions I've intercepted gold, but I'm keeping a particular focus on continually varying spots. I think I have given a massive cleanup in at least 4 places where in the past two months I seemed to be the only one still finding pieces. Finding a single ring in hundreds of square feet covered on the bottom I am beginning to perceive it as an event of luck rather than skill. So this is a new chapter of wetsand work and diving, alternating according to the will of the sea. Have a great weekend You all 🙏🏼

This week, unlike last week, it was not the swell that kept me out of the game, but other breakdowns at the surface compressor. Although I adopted scuba tanks from the top, I did not have enough bottom time to produce better. As soon as the compressor problem was fixed, Thursday morning a little more than a gram 18 K earring revived the situation. Yesterday morning through my own fault, I missed a session thanks to the devastating dinner the night before.... To conclude this morning I conducted a blind session with zero visibility and brought home a Casio watch still alive. Really hard to say the feeling after 9 grams less than the week's minimum 😑 Have a great weekend You all.

The week just past, remains more a symbol to pay attention to, than anything memorable in terms of finds. A few coins, found at times when having to stay away from the water and walking along the shoreline, some appearance of a new stretch where to take action soon, but other than that, just great risk and quite a bit of road traveled without fruit. Last Monday, as always at dawn, I enter the water at one of the spots I have been alternating for months. Although the forecast was not so clear, within a quarter of an hour the waves became heavy, then high, then threatening. I get out with difficulty and before I do any damage to my equipment, I abandon the spot and return home. Once again, the surface compressor must have "ingested" water and although this is a brand new engine, problems with the volume delivered begin. Tuesday morning, same spot on the shoreline, but a worrisome new layer declares the games closed. I'll save you the trouble of reading further and end with Saturday morning, then yesterday, with the last area I imagined productive, which exposed some lead, a fake gold earring and little aluminum. No miracles, no conditions...The sea won this time. Good Sunday to all of you.

Anyone who reads my posts recently saw a floating sifter I got for beach hunting, and thank you all for the suggestions regarding making it better. I took the advice of one of the people that responded, sent it back, and got the one I really wanted, the great but expensive Tube Tubb: This thing is big, kinda heavy (around 3 pounds), and expect to pay around $200 for it, but it's made in the USA, has no metal in it at all, and has a really thick fiber sifter with 3/8" holes. It can take a big scoop of rocks and silt and will not flip over just like the other one, but it's way more well made. It's 31" long by 16" wide. I got mine from Serious Detecting, but it's pretty much available from many metal detecting specialty companies online. My next problem was how to carry it. 😬 One thing I noticed with the other one was that because it's huge and the grab handles are thick, you have to carry it by hand or attached to a lanyard and it bangs all over the place during portage, not to mention keeping one of your hands occupied. I've seen the Hoover Boys using one but they just toss it in a boat, I have to walk to the beach from the parking lot. 😵 I searched Amazon for various backpack rigs and came upon this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08372G1VX Again it's kinda pricey ($68) but it's the only thing I could conceptualize holding this sifter. 🤔 Man was I surprised when it got here. It's a bit fiddly to adjust at first, but it's extremely well made and worth every penny, the perfect backpack carrier for the Tube Tubb. Pop the two button locked Bianchi clips and you're ready to go, you can keep the backpack unit on your back while in the water. 🥳 It has comfortable and easily adjustable shoulder straps and a cross strap as well. It also has a cushioned pad with two zipper pockets. Now with both hands free to carry my detector and scoop, I should be all set for some serious water hunting this fall at my rocky, pebbly beach. I will revisit this post when I have used this rig.

Last month I noticed some excavation work being done on a local beach. This is an old beach, but trying to find older coins is really hard, especially at the top with deep sand. But as the work area was repairing a small section of an old slipway, they did dig deep for the concrete sections. The dugout mound of sand contained clay, iron & masses of coinage. What made it so special, was the volume of silver compared to the copper coins, never had anywhere like that. It was not difficult to get well over 100 coins after each tide for a few trips. The excavated sand was banked up temporarily to keep the water out of the excavation as long as small tides came on. After the coins started to thin out considerably, I waited for the bigger tides to scour the bank. It was the same all over again with a new crop of coins & other bits of interest. Jewellery not so common, but a really small 18ct Diamond eventually turned up - really low but good sounding target. There's always a chance of competition so I absolutely battered it for the four days the excavation existed. The last big tide flattened the whole thing with a lot more stuff appearing. What was noticeable was the larger easy targets disappeared quickly on the first passes with the next run having more smaller items. Initially, I put on a turn of speed - but accurate hunting, with very very quick target recovery. The last time I went for the final hunt, I took it very slowly and carefully puling out small items & deep ones which the Deus is easily capable of. Green stands out well in the sand, so no pinpointer required mostly thereby slowing me up. The area was quite large taking three hours to cover completely, or less if the tide swept over. All too soon the job was over & things look just like they used too. I have an idea though that during winter storms, some more stuff will appear as there was some parts I couldn't get to because of the work zone. I've used the D2 since its introduction as is my favorite machine. At the moment, though, I do use the Manticore with the M8 coil for iron spots (not forgetting the little Tesoro!) especially with the shape of the coil. Its all just personal preference. I feel I can do better with the D2 - I've called it a bag filler with me covering large areas quickly. Also, a simple thing as its perfect shaft design helps a lot over the other offerings being completely strain less. Photo 2 is the bank washed out. 3 is the cleaned silver, top part is 50% (1920-46) silver the lower part 92% (Victorian to 1919) Photo 4 shows green corroded silver coins before cleaning. 5 is typical hunts copper coinage from 1860's to 1960's I might now call the Deus the Silver Scythe.

This week, I really have a hard time explaining what happened and I find there is a strange, inconceivable balance in things. Monday morning, in the total absence of any idea or area where there was less sand than around, I return to a spot where although there are obvious rocky spots within sight, no one has dared to approach the flap beyond the shoreline buoys for years. I end up above on an expanse of massive boulders that were probably uncovered long before judging by the seaweed contamination. I stay with the M8 at really minimal sensitivity and almost by accident, dig out three signals not far apart, maybe 10 meters...An hour and I get home because of people swimming around the surface compressor...Damn! Tuesday at dawn I return of course to the exact same place, where by necessity I took reference with compass and signal on the ground not to waste time to intercept the precise area. Nothing, not a single signal left. I was aware that after one such day, 10 more totally different ones follow...Indeed.... On Wednesday I change area and in utter disappointment the surface compressor stops working and I run out of air in the first few meters from shore as I prepare to move away into deeper water. I return to shore to do a brief check and without wasting too much time, I use my snorkel to continue and angrily hold on to the first few meters below the shoreline. I eventually manage to find in the middle of nowhere a decent signal under a 70. It was a small 925 silver engagement ring, very much like a wedding band and for that, really a mockery and no picture of it. I go home with a smile because at any rate, in just one hour Monday, I doubled and exceeded the minimum target this week only to have to engage in deep maintenance... Have a great weekend to all of you

Well, this time last monday, with still low visibility I've been lucky enough to intercept a cleaner water spot where in the really shallows some clay and rocks were keeping two ear rings at a good distance one from the other.B Both 18k marked but the bigger in white gold. Tuesday, in the hope to find more and not keeping memory of the brutal almost 4 hours to bring home 2 dirty grams the day before...I've been back there to find a doubtful round charm with a missing image in the middle..I can clearly see a strong glue dot and in spite of an immaculate appearance and 18K-ish colour, it will be tested to call it a win... So 1.99 grams pending... Wednesday far from that area but another time in a too small clay patch, something similar to a miracle happened... A tiny open hoop yellow 18K ear ring right above a thin broken bracelet...So the ear ring signal made possible to see it in the same water moved hole...I tell You, I realised just leaving the area overtired in my ears due to crap of any sort and when back in my car, that all of them were 18K. Thursday and last session of the week cause of usual late arriving of swells after last hurricane near You upthere, I ended up in another beach where still today and maybe December there is and will be too much sand after last winter miracle of rocks in sight...Three hours and a tiny 18K white band to leave happily the spot to dawn warriors swimmers....If I just could had a grenade sometimes...But that's another story 🏴‍☠️ All of this with my self repaired and again trusted M9...But today I'm back to my first Mlove8... On Monday the battle restarts 🤞 Have a great week end You all and stay safe!

Recently decided to hit an old (out of the way) saltwater swim area (and small grassed area) that I have been meaning to detect for years. Managed one gold and one platinum ring (not shown).....but the amount of old Australian $1 and $2 coins was crazy. Unfortunately over half the total value of about $110 is "mutilated" coins, corroded so badly from seawater or hit by mowers that they are no longer legal tender and can't be taken by banks or other institutions. The salvageable coins is about $50 (right half of the picture). The Excalibur and Manticore certainly worked well together.