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Headed out to a local beach to get some more time in on the Manticore, especially using Dankowski settings with both 5 Region All Tones and One Tone. Next week I'll be at yet another beach, all my relic permissions are planted. 🥲 It was a little cold in the morning (45) but it warmed up to the mid 70s quickly. The water is 53 degrees. Today I had the Manticore and the M9 coil. Got there early, the place was deserted, but it cost me $12 to park for four hours. 😵 That starts 1 April. I brought the Tube Tubb with me, I didn't feel like wearing waders, so I just went in knee deep at low tide. I hate having to get out of the water all the time. I speared a bunch of coins and ended up switching to full tones after a while and noticed no real difference in depth. I wanted to hear the variations in tones with all the stuff that is in this area. I can run Beach Surf and Seawater at 29 sensitivity here anyway. Here's the coin and other stuff haul, 35 of them, lots of nickels! All water coins so quite a few are mangled: Got a dog tag and a gold plated plate that says "Sexy". 😏 Nothing is particularly old, I wiped out all the old silver last fall, and this winter before I got the Manticore. After I got it I've found gold in a few places! 🤯 it hits the really low conductors. 🤔 Not a bad pile of trash: All the usual suspects and nasty stuff. But y'all know me, that isn't all: Got 2 14k gold rings, one a baby ring (wife identified) with a sapphire, the other a plain wedding band with an inscription and a wedding date in 1973. I'm pretty sure the plain band was there for a really long time. It was a 10 on the Manticore, and the baby ring was a 17. The stainless spinner ring on the right was a 10 as well. It's really nice but way too small for my wife. She says it's size 2. It looks broken but it isn't. Ended up with almost 5 grams of gold anyway! I hunted the beach after the tide came in, but not much. 🍀

I'm back from the beach! We originally booked 7 days (with 5 days of detecting) but the weather on the day we were supposed to leave was so nasty we decided to extend for 4 more nights. It's off season, so I had low expectations. It was a nice week except for the first day, and one other. Most times I managed to get out on the beach twice a day, early morning and late afternoon. A couple days the wind was brutal so not many people came out. I had the Deus 2 and the Manticore with me, the Deus was reliable as usual, and I used the Manticore mostly in the water and wet sand, as I didn't want to use the antenna. Both detectors are really capable, I still lean toward the Deus because I dug much less trash, but it seems after some tweaks the Manticore is catching up a bit. I used only the 11x13" coil on the Deus 2, and the M15 and M9 on the Mcore. I had a few negative low tides, on one day I got out pretty far with the M9, but only found coins and sinkers. I give the sinkers to fishermen when they are out there. The sand here is pretty mineralized, it fills the mineral bar on the Deus, so I talked to a forum member who helped out with that for the Manticore, some good advice. I also later experimented with Enhanced Audio, a suggestion from another member, which helped me find more nickels and less pull tabs. While I didn't get anything gold or silver, I got way more than the other detectorists that thinned out to none by the last 4 days or so. Here's my haul, 173 coins, a little over $14. I got 3 toy cars, some junk jewelry, and a cool flashlight/UV/laser combo flashlight. Most people said all they got was pull tabs and maybe a coin or two. 😎 I got 30 coins, the key and the carabiner on the last day. A lot of the coins were extremely deep, some up to a foot. Both detectors hit them deep. Here's a typical trash pic from the Manticore: And this with the Deus 2: By the last day I was doing better with the Manticore: So I'm getting closer to "dialed in" with it. This was my best coin day. Now for a cute story, meet Rollo, the coin digging Dog. He and his owner came up while I was digging one target, and he immediately set to digging next to me while we were talking. When the owner left I checked the pile he dug up, and there was a dime in it! The owner got a kick out of it. 😅 Good Boy 🐶 I'm sad I didn't hit any precious metal, but I had a great time detecting and honing the capability of the Manticore. 🍀

If you talk with a gold prospector, saying about a gold chain as the hardest item to uncover, it is a joke. In my still modest 20+ years experience, I found no more than 12 or so. Every time cause of a pendant still there in the same hole, or at least an eye visible piece. Long story short, I found at some depth (2" more or less) one little pendant with a weight of only 0.32 gram. I know, the shape can do miracles in terms of response to the coil, but hey...With the M9 this opened my eyes and that's the reason for the title. There will be no more progress on a Vlf to avoid salt and listen to chains. I'm sure now. Still today, smaller items barely covered in sand can be reached but forget about decent depth perception of it, not underwater. The low conductors program performs to a limit where I can barely realize if I'm running way hot at 22 or something reacts for real to the coil. Wrong program underwater, wrong approach to the usual work, I know. Using different settings and programs will only get You a blind machine like many others on micro targets. Steve explained long ago the "salt against chains ratio" and now, again I crashed my nose on it. For peace of mind, I'm considering to stay for some time with a pulse machine and forget micro targets for a while... I think that I've been lucky enough to push the Manticore to the limit underwater in salt. Skull

Hey y'all, A few weeks back I had this "great idea", to drive down to Cocoa Beach Florida and not only detect but to meet up with some forum members I've been conversing with for years. It was my 65th "Medicare" birthday last week, so we packed up the Bronco Sport and drove to Cocoa Beach, over 800 miles away. My wife was up for it, we booked a Hilton and brought my little dog. She was fine relaxing at the hotel while I went out on the mornings. It's my first "Birthday Week", I usually take her camping and do that for her. ❤️ Originally it was supposed to be @Joe D., @PI-Man, and @dogodog, but Jamie (Dogodog) had life get in the way so he had to drop out, he was sorely missed. 🥲 I've hunted with him before, it was a blast. It ended up being the 3 Musketeers. That's me on the right, Rich in the center, and Gary on the left. While there I also met up with the legendary @ColonelDan too! It was awesome to meet him. 🫡 Got there on Thursday the 6th, and originally was going to leave on the 11th, but a winter storm was forecast here that ended up being pretty rough, so we stayed until the 13th. Well that worked out. 😅 It was a perfect week , no rain, a bit warmer than usual, off season but lots of people on the beach. Even got to see a SpaceX rocket launch while I was there! Thought Elon might be at the hotel, but it wasn't him 😅. I have to say, I wondered when talking to Gary and Rich, why they never really find all that much when they go out detecting. I found out why the hard way! These guys have to deal with tons of competition, beach renewal that buries everything, storms that shift sand all over the place, not to mention the sticky, heavy gray sand itself. 😖 It's somewhat the same as the sand at Myrtle Beach , but heavier. Absolutely brutal. I can't imagine summer detecting there, you'd have to be a camel. In that heat you dehydrate fast. If you're not ready to go on a moment's notice or if you work, you can't get out there enough to get the good stuff. Stuff sinks really fast and it's really hard to dig. Rich and Gary are seasoned detectorists, no doubt about it. 🏆 They search mostly the wet and the surf, in the water too. Hardcore... Gary said one day he could see sharks swimming around him. 😬 While I deal with jellyfish back home, another hazard here is the "Bluebottle", or Portuguese Man of War, a nasty little bugger that makes you think twice about going in the shark infested water: A sting from one of these can ruin your day. 😬 The only tougher thing I can think of is scuba. We all got out early every morning, Rich showed up at the hotel Friday, Saturday and Sunday early, and we hit the beaches up and down the coast there, they took me to some of their best spots. Monday and Tuesday I was on my own, and Rich picked me up Wednesday morning for the finale. One day we went to the Treasure Coast, and I got skunked but for some iron bits and "space poop" as Gary called it: The blue thing I thought was old china was a broken bit of sunglasses. 🤣 I switched back and forth with my trusty Deus 2 and 13" and my new Manticore with the M9. Gary had his Deus 2, used a PI one day, and Rich had his new Manticore. One of the days we were all pretty skunked, I was heading up to meet the guys on the higher beach, and I got a coin signal. Then I found another and another, and Gary jumped in, we ended up with about 15 or so coins between us, the place looked like it had been carpet bombed when we were done . I did ok over the week: 54 coins, a couple of Hot Wheels (I gave one away to a little kid for jewelry karma), a Disney Star Wars pin, lots of chain but not precious metal, 4 NCV tokens, and bling jewelry. My best find was a silver Pandora earring. The Deus was my find-all machine, and the Manticore was a spear both in and out of the water. I was very impressed but dug less trash with the Deus. Sorry no trash photos, but got some every day. While not the most spectacular detecting I've ever done, none of us got a ring, the camaraderie was incredible. It was off-season, go figure. Like hunting with dogodog (Jamie) it was a total blast, laughing and joking all day. These guys are the best of the best, and it was an honor to hunt with them. I may make this an annual event, but we might meet up elsewhere to trash the place! I hunt with @Chase Goldman, have since I joined here, it's always fun with him too. 🙂 I've met 5 people on this forum so far, and have the best memories and great friends. 🍀

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

Made a 4th trip to the beach today, the tide was supposed to be the lowest for a while, and a pretty strong southwest wind. It was 63 when I got there, got cloudy and rained a little, but the sun came out and it went up to 77, so it was a perfect day. I spent most of my time in "the spot", the small area of this beach I've got so much from. Today I started with the 9" coil, and right away dug a Buffalo nickel. After about an hour of using the 9" which I had intended to go in the water with, I realized it was falsing way too much on iron, so I switched to the 11x13" coil and turned up Reactivity. The 9" is great in the water but not so much above the waterline. The 11x13 has unbelievable separation capability, and it did not disappoint. It found this Barber dime in this iron accretion: And this 1893 Barber quarter under this massive ball of iron rust. In both cases I heard the iron and the high tone as it should have been. Wow. I guess I have this detector dialed in! Here's the haul today: Barber quarter, dime, a bunch of small targets that were jewelry, 4 buffalo nickels, one V nickel and 4 wheats. I had to break the iron and mineral ball the dime was in to get it out, I did it very carefully but still have some crud on the front and can't see the date. If anyone knows how to remove the iron crud I would be happy. 🤔 After about 4 hours of searching this spot, I decided to walk the beach at the level of the ring I found which I'll show ya in a bit. I found some modern coins and a few bits of jewelry, but it was a long walk. When I was back near the truck I got my "thank you for coming" prize, just at the waterline: A nice silver ring. The trash was pretty heavy today: One huge antique sinker and bits of all kinds of metal. Got some modern coins: But the best thing all day came from the higher beach near the top of the sluice in the first photo, I got a 47 and dug this: A sadly broken but really old signet ring in 10k. It has to be somewhere around 100 years old. I was thrilled. Never got in the water, didn't need to!

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

After all your comments and advice, I decided to go back to "the spot" to see what else I could find, today as a water hunter. I brought my water ready D2, my tougher and heavier CooB scoop, and the Tube Tubb today. The water is not all that cold and it went up to almost 80. It wasn't 5 minutes before I found my first coin, and they just kept coming. Today I came home with 38 coins, one more than yesterday, and not one Zincoln. It was fairly evenly split between the old and the new. I finally came to the conclusion that the North wind took 50 to 100 years off this particular spot, and almost all of the finds were coming from about 15 feet past low tide, and 15 feet above it. It seems to me that if a beach gets heavily sanded out, whatever is in the water past the wave action and current gets sanded in. When I went out in the deeper water the targets were very faint or non existent. Got a couple of rings out there, one may be silver but the rest are pretty much junk. Here's the trash today, only a small handful. I dug a lot of copper screws today, a live blank .22 long, and a live .22 short. Dug next to no iron. Got a lot of clad but most of it has been there a long time, a nice tungsten ring, a broken one, and some small bling. 6 copper memorials, and 6 wheats. Here's the fun stuff, 2 old keys, another Barber Dime, 3 IHPs, 4 V nickels and 2 Buffalo nickels. On the right is a piece of typeset that says something about Chicago, a small broken buckle and I think 2 silver items, a ring and a small pendant. Both are brown, so I'll have to find a way to clean them without damage, I might just tumble them along with some of the coins to see what the dates are. One of the V nickels is a 1912. Here's the pendant, almost looks like gold under the brown but there are no hallmarks. I cannot find a similar one: Here is the reverse, it just says "OUT". I was trying to get out of there and go home, but I kept finding coins about every 5 feet. Another great day, and possibly my last beach hunt this year.

Got a strong feeling this morning that I should go to my local big beach. The festivals and big events are over for the year, and finally parking is free 🥳 I really didn't expect much, and for the first two hours that was the case. The tide was very low today, I think that's part of what made me go, the high beach was pretty barren of finds but I noticed the shoreline had quite a few cuts in it. The North wind has been pounding the shoreline for quite a while. Got there around 9AM, it was still 46 degrees but the water is still warm and the sun was up, so I never felt the cold. I searched this beach for 2 hours and got quite a few coins near the edge of the water. My count was 37 coins for the day. I ended up with a small amount of clad, a few old things, a silver earring, and a jeweled cross on a tiny chain. I found it on Amazon for $5.99 🤬 At first I thought it might be gold due to the low ID, but it's not. After 2 hours of finding pretty much the same old same old, I decided to hunt a stretch of beach I call "the spot", it is about 50 yards long. The tide by then was really low, lower than it has been in a while. It was then that I almost felt like I went back in time, I started finding coin after coin that was over 100 years old. 🤯 I couldn't leave that spot despite being tired, and I'm glad I didn't: I got 4 silver coins! 2 Barber Quarters, a Barber dime, and a Mercury dime. Under those are 4 "V" nickels, and a Buffalo nickel. Two Indian heads and 5 wheats. The most interesting thing that occurred today was finding the Merc, it was sitting on top of a huge piece of iron, yet the D2 sniffed it out. 😎 The iron chunk literally fills the frame. Trash was bits of everything, about 2 handfuls of lead, copper screws and bullet shells, and the usual junk.

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!

I finally dug something of value. Small gold wedding band. 2.66 grams of 14k. Rang up as 30/31 in the wet sand. You gotta dig the junk to get to the gold.

Amazed this week by the kind of events. Since last Monday, maybe I've been more productive on the wetsand than on the seabed, calculating effort and dedicated time. By the way, a heavy ear ring and a few coins opened the week and Tuesday an eyeballed wedding band and a thinner religious ring dug on the seabed declared the end of the short yellow stripe... Not too bad, considering 13,27 grams of 18K in total, slightly over the weekly minimum I keep in mind to run things in the right way. Have a great weekend You all!

I almost didn't go on this trip, a potential tropical storm was forecast, but the storm hit far south so it wasn't all that bad, got there safely, and the rain stayed south of us for the most part. It never got really windy, but because of the heavy surf and King Tide, the beach was pretty eroded and in some places very small. The tide only got to low in the afternoon, but it never got all that low and the surf was dangerous. I ended up going out twice later in the day as the beach was really packed by then. I got out early every day, went to different parts of the 11 mile strip, one thing I love about this place is that there are lots of free parking lots, and most of them have either bathrooms or portable facilities and shower stations so I can clean up my gear before going back. Best place to hunt I've ever been. Here's my worst trash day, just an example of what I threw out: The good finds almost always outnumbered the trash. I ended up with a fair amount of bits: Here's all the junk jewelry and odd stuff. The tiny chain is silver. Wish I could have found the rest of it. I dug 121 coins over the 5 days: Nothing spectacular but I'm always shocked at how many dimes I find, the Deus loves them, some were probably near or over a foot deep. I did get a nice silver ring but it was pretty mangled: https://alohajewelryco.com/collections/925-sterling-silver/products/copy-of-925-sterling-silver-6mm-hawaiian-plumeria-flower-scroll-stackable-ring-gold?variant=32542193680484 I straightened it out as best as I could. I did get gold but it was an obligation. I waved my detector over the sand in front of a sign, and got a really loud 96, generally the ID of a toy car, but I dug this small container that contained a ring. It was a nice 10k gold ring, pretty large. There was also a laminated tag with the name of a person, and two years on either side. The container appeared to have sand in it, but I realized immediately it was a funerary urn. 😬 I dug a much deeper hole, put everything back in the container, and re-buried it so that the Deus could not detect it at full power. Luckily no one saw me do it. It's not the strangest thing I've ever found, but certainly the most sad. 😥 Overall not a spectacular hunt but a good one.

That brings me to another question. If you take the natural response of a single frequency machine, would a gold machine like the Gold Racer be better in high aluminum trash areas for cherry picking out gold? I am sure general coin shooting would be trickier as you start to lose the gamut on the higher conductors. Here is the ID scale on the Makro Gold Racer @ 56khz. I have a stupid thought in my head that I maybe able to use that to cherry pick some parks here that are just blankets of aluminum. I have sniped out the easy copper and silver but the can slaw is brutal.

I recently had some doubts in using the main detector and was pondering the possibility of eliminating some by selling. In detail, I complained of some high ID response that I accidentally dug up in the absence of decent signals. The last victorious session, brought me a 6.49-gram 18K wedding ring and by sheer luck, with an amazing 80, I deigned to dig it out. So this morning I decided to go out with a dear old detector, one that doesn't mess around, and the numbers are shocking considering the spot, the devastated condition of the clay and rocks, and lousy visibility. After 4 1/2 hours on the bottom, thanks to the use of hooka compressor, I flushed out 4 pieces totaling 20 "dirty" grams. The numbers speak for themselves, and I am beginning to have clearer ideas.... I will add no more...

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 🙏🏼

Transition week this last. A drastic drop in temperature first drove people away from the coast and soon after, announced some movement on the seabed. Still little field exposed in the water, but the first cuts appear on the berm. We will see in the coming days if the energy becomes more intense and efficient. Aside from the usual coins caught on the wetsand when the wave did not allow me to dive, two small pieces open the second week of September with a slight improvement over last week. In total, I'm about 16 grams behind schedule, but for now one can only watch for the first autumn storms and hope for an imminent opening. Have a great weekend You all!

3 in the same hole! Who knew treasure hunting could get so... intimate. Joke aside, I'm very happy with these results. Value-wise, just over $1000 AUD in scrap from maybe 4 hours of detecting. Day 1, I met my friend down at one of our good spots. Very cold. 13 degrees in the water at the moment (55F). Spent a few hours in pretty bad visibility water and I managed to score 1 gold 14ct ring as well as a few other odds. Day 2 (a couple days later though), just as cold, but we knew the tides and swell were going to be PERFECT. For comparison, it's never what I would call 'perfect'. It was flat, calm, no wind, no waves, nothing..for the first hour anyway. I haven't seen it so flat since last week, and before that, years. To line up the tides, visibility and weather is very hard at this spot. We ended up getting in the water before daybreak and I was equip with my Blu3 Nomad and only the light from my Manticore. It's the first time I've used it at this spot as the waves are always too big. I ventured out a bit deeper and didn't find a lot, so came back to the shallower end, about 2 meters deep where most people swim. Boom, started getting coins and bangles and other bits and pieces. One thing I noticed when using such a thick dive hood with the nomad is that it's very hard to hear targets even with the "sound boost" feature, so I found myself mostly looking at the screen and kind of switching between the Nomad and my snorkel. After about 20 minutes, got a nice signal and found a cool ring. I can't remember which one came first but I got 3 rings and a coin! 2 were gold and 1 was a cool little silver snake. I cleared that patch and went over to another rocky section and scored another nice 18ct ring as well as more coins. Great fun! One might ask, "aren't you afraid of sharks???". I'd reply, "Nah, never seen any, it'll be fine". Imagine my surprise when friend messaged me the following day with a video of a shark he spotted around the corner, LOL. Not sure what type it is, but he said it looked harmless. Have tons of videos to edit for Youtube but not enough time unfortunately. I'll get around to it eventually.

Well I didn't do as well as some other person that posted today 😅 but it was another fine day at the beach, I brought the D2 with the 13" for the dry, and hunted until the tide got low. I really didn't expect much, but last week I saw a lot of people come out on Monday, so I thought I'd find something anyway. Did pretty good in the dry, and the last two hours were spent in the water using my second D2 with the 9". I don't have any pics from that because I have to leave a lot of stuff behind in the truck, I can only bring my valet key. In 7 hours out there I managed to get 42 coins, unfortunately nothing older than 1965. This is pretty average for me there. I got two hot wheels (thank God 😏), a little silver key pendant, and the misshapen band in the center is some kind of bracelet or earring dripping with CZ's. The small ring is silver plated and has a couple of stones. I guess someone intended to make earrings out of the shells, they are attached by two stainless keyrings. Oops. My favorite find of the day wasn't stellar, but it is gold plated: A nice ring with CZs that my wife snagged for herself. I found a huge knife in the water along with a few coins but it's been hit a lot lately, probably because I've been posting some pretty good stuff out of there. 🤔 Next week a week long hunt back in the Outer Banks! 😎

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.