10 metre tide range low water search :(

[Merlin cadogan]

I posted recently about a 10 metre tide range here in the uk. I searched low tide today for 1 hour and found a few things. Padlock, nails, old brass o ring washer ( it looked like a ring in the scoop! couple of metal rolled up tubes, a length of very light but think iron chain, and two one pence coins. I lost one target in the shallow water as the tide was rushing back in. I was washing the sand and stones out of the scoop to recover the item and then it must have got washed out. I think it was some light metalic sweetpaper, but it might have been something decent. I took my boat out for a play again, I am planning to dive some treasure ships with my scuba kit and underwater detector this month.
I am also meeting a person who I spoke to on here next Monday at my juggling show who is 70 years old and does lots of surf hunting here in Cornwall, England.
A good day searching, and it looks like I've found a metal detector friend here in the uk

 

[scubadetector]

finding the right spot. Good luck in your hunts.

 

[Merlin cadogan]

Thanks SD I'm learning each time I hunt......

 

[Furious T]

Beaches can look so darn big when you stand there and look around, particularly when you dont know the beach. It takes time to learn where things accumulate, and it also take time to learn to "read" a beach. Patience will be your other detecting friend.

 

[deerman]

with a 10 meter tide change i would go to the beach and just watch where the people are in the water most of the time,also look for troughs(cuts) formed as the water washs out and check them as gold can be washed into them and the cut gets you closer to the hard packed sand/rocks that the gold will lay on top of due to the hardness of that material,and also work in a W shaped pattern from high to low water and you should find a place where
the hits are as you look at where you have been hope this helps

 

[Merlin cadogan]

Thanks deerman I will try the w shape next time. Good luck to you

 

[scubadetector]

The bum moved from MI to WV and I lost a hunting parter. He needs luck just to find WATER in WV. Sorry John, couldn't resist

 

[deerman]

n/t