Shallow Water Treasure - Who dares wins!

Christian,
        I'm just new with my MD 5008 metal detector,  I tried to use it in the beach line and found nothing.
It's not in the manual if it's more effective in salt water or in fresh water.  I used it in fresh water and found pyrites instead of gold.

Boyet of Philippines     
Hello all!
I have a thunting site, but I don't have the scanner.  We have a farm w/c we inherited from our grand parents about 9 hec.  It's located in high mountain top and I found a big stone around 7 feet high, just beside a hill and beneath the big stone are filed medium stones w/c are properly aligned at one file. And at the left top end of the medium stones a big old dead tree is located.  Have read the blog of "1500 gold bars & nuggets of Otherplane"? It is describe almost the same as we have in the farm.
Please help me and guide me where I find the portal of entry if their is a cave.   

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		Quote:			Posted by RogerC42
	This article was very timely for me since I'm new to th..ing and was checking the local maps trying to pick out a good beach to start searching. Thanks for some great tips.

Welcome aboard from Oz. This is one fine forum. Enjoy.

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		Quote:			Posted by Saila
	Im new here and catshing up on all the posts I can. This one definitely makes me want to be full timer TH

To be quite frank, only a very few can afford to be full timers Saila. Work things in reverse. If you require $52,000 per year to survive and pay the tax man, you need to make $1000 per week and that means something like 5,000 coins, a few rings and a treasure cache now and again. Break that down into a 40 hour work week and you need to find 125 coins per hour on average, a ring now and again and hopefully that cache will present itself by accident since you won't have a minute to spare for research.

It's a lot to consider. Instead, work now to plan for a suitable retirement time in your life so you can supplement your retirement with finds and effectively do it full time. Either way, the best of luck to you.

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As I said before, I started hunting in 1965 and hunted in the water in 1967. I wrote one of the first articles on water hunting back in 1975. In 1967 I was using a Garrett Master Hunter detector in the water, but only the coil was waterproof, not the box, so I couldn't go any deeper than my waist and that was risky, but no, I never dunked and killed a detector. But the big difference back then was, there were a lot less detectors around and very few water hunters. Being one of the early ones was a big advantage back then. Unfortunately, nowadays up here in Connecticut, here seems to be a lot less people using the beaches as there used to be, maybe because of the higher prices some are charging for admittance, maybe because poor summer weather, or not so good water quality, but anyway, there is a much lower attendance of most beaches. Along with that is the amount of detectorists now hitting these same beaches, and some do it every day. So in all respects, you just don't find like you did back in the old days. Another thing, Pulse detectors have their place, but in many cases a good discriminating detector is a must. There are many beaches that have too much trash to use a Pulse detector. The ratio of trash you would have to dig for one good find would be very punishing to your back and arms in these areas, so promoting that a Pulse detector is way better, is misleading, it is depending on where you are hunting. I have both type detectors, one is an Pulse Power Aquastar2, but most of the time I have to use a Minelab Sovereign which I have waterproofed. I hip mount the control box which is waterproofed and it works well, and is lighter than a Excaliber and easier to use with less drag in the water. The old days are gone, but there are still some good finds, just have to get out there and hunt.

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Yes Alan , the PI detector does a better job than anything else  .     Cornelius

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