Tony Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 I recently sold my old Garrett Sea Hunter XL500 pulse to a gentleman in San Diego.......he has many old Garrett detectors and is always getting whatever hard to find spare parts from Garrett USA. Anyhow, he was informed that Garrett are in the final production run of the Sea Hunter MK2 models and that model will soon be discontinued. Sounds like get them while you can......crazy new prices for them here in Australia/NZ. They are 50% more expensive than they were just a few years ago. I wish I had kept mine.......25 years of production I'm guessing. I can't vouch for the validity of this claim so happy to hear from anyone else who might be in the know. Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 My source in the USA has been personally told by Garrett USA that the Sea Hunter MK2 is being discontinued ! New beach / shallow water PI detectors are no longer ? Steve might have to update that list of his again. Sad times. *** I don't include the Aquascan AQ1B or JW Fisher Pulse 8X as beach or shallow water detectors due to their minimum starting pulse delays of ~40uS *** 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lama Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 atx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 Well yes but I'm thinking that's not what people really buy it for (Wet beach and shallow water). The SDC2300 is in that category as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 8 hours ago, The Lama said: atx Surely the ATX is on borrowed time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull diver Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Even if I slightly flooded it once, I loved my Tdi Beach Hunter before to keep it far from the water depth. I'll do a long conservative restoration in the future, maybe adapting the mono 8" Detech and reducing the empty shell to surround coil's spirals with minimal plastic and epoxy. Around 12 uS was the best I squeezed with that coil...15 or higher with the factory yellow 12". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j71038 Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 On 3/18/2024 at 9:09 PM, Tony said: My source in the USA has been personally told by Garrett USA that the Sea Hunter MK2 is being discontinued ! New beach / shallow water PI detectors are no longer ? Steve might have to update that list of his again. Sad times. *** I don't include the Aquascan AQ1B or JW Fisher Pulse 8X as beach or shallow water detectors due to their minimum starting pulse delays of ~40uS *** It looks like your source may be correct Tony. If you look at Garrett's website either the Sea Hunter is discontinued or the website is not working correctly. I could not find the Sea Hunter listed and did not see either coil available. Perhaps they stopped making them because many detectors now available can be submerged to 10 feet or so thus vastly shrinking market share available to the Sea Hunter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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