Everyone's take on what underwater detector to buy

[Fired89]

n/t

 

[goldringseaker]

I just purchased the Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II. I am very pleased with it and I'm sure you will be too.

 

[Gerry]

What type of water, salt fresh. How much trash in the area etc. I am pleased with my Excaliber, it works well in both waters.

Gerry

 

[Fired89]

Both types of water and I would say trash all the land hunting I do is trash

I looking for a real good underwater

 

[scubadetector]

Ok for a subject that has been beat to death. You have TWO favorite machines for both fresh and salt water Excal and CZ-21.


The others are BHID, At Pro, Tigershark, Headhunter Diver, Infinium. Although the Infinium is a PI, I have heard lots of success in fresh water. You also have a few Chinese trash. If I missed any it is purely unententional.

Whatever one you get LEARN THE MACHINE. I am deadly on gold with my CZ as are others with their Excal.

You also need a long handled scoop and waders or a wetsuit. Also you need to KNOW how to be safe in the water. A scoop will set you back another 160.00 or so , a good wetsuit 300.00. YOU and only YOU know how much you can spend and how much you might get as a return on your investment.

ALSO a PFD. Any wader in the water without one is asking for trouble IMHO. Especially if your going up to your sholders. I personally know of TWO people that drowned wading and have heard from the wife of a THIRD. Water hunting is very rewarding and is also VERY dangerous.


So there you have it. If you spend 200.00 on a Chinese machine, you get what you pay for.


I am wading tomorrow, BUT I dive 95% of the time. I have ALL the certifications and ALL the safety equipment and I feel quite comfortable in the water. If you find yourself in trouble DUMP your stpid scoop and machine. Maybe or maybe not you will get them back, but I guarentee you won't get your life back.

 

[Fired89]

I have tigerstark that's 15 years old just looking to replace it I hunt with a etrac and a gpx4800 on land but don't much about the newer underwater detectors

 

[Gerry]

am wading tomorrow, BUT I dive 95% of the time. I have ALL the certifications and ALL the safety equipment and I feel quite comfortable in the water. If you find yourself in trouble DUMP your stpid scoop and machine. Maybe or maybe not you will get them back, but I guarentee you won't get your life back.


PLEASE READ ABOVE, there never was true advice. I almost became a statistic, bobbed to the surface probably for the last time and a swell came along and carried me into the beach. My mistake # 1 no PFD[/b ]#2 trying to save my scoop and detector. # not being aware of surroundings i.e. not taking the ten or so minutes to observe and take in the beach in and study the water movement as a whole.
+++++++++++ I no longer step into the water of a unfamiliar beach without a PFD ++++++++++++++=

 

[JMW]

Not to hijack this thread but would be interested to know the details, might save someone's life someday. Sounds like you were working the surf. Was it especially rough, hit by a rogue wave, pulled out by a rip current, stepped into a hole? What were you wearing, waders, wet suit, etc.? Glad you're ok. Close ones like that really change your perspective on things. I use a PFD but find myself not wearing it as often, getting complacent I guess. But, like we used to say back in my flying days, complacency kills. Stay safe.

 

[Gerry]

Jim, I was metal detecting the wet sand as I am not a good swimmer. Got to the far end of the beach and was getting warm so thought I would enter the water and cool off a bit. Walked straight into the water and kept walking I thought until I would hit my waist lower chest depth. The water was clear and I was metal detecting as I went. What I did not know was I was walking on a sand covered rocky coral reef, the water was so clear the sand on the reef and the sand where the reef dropped of all looked the same. I stepped off the edge of the rock / coral and was immediately in eight feet of water as opposed to three feet. I bobbed up and down three or for times and my breathing was getting out of sink, I had a Nuttall scoop pushed hard off the bottom, popped to the surface and a swell carried me back to on top of the rock coral shelf.
I believe the coral shelf was about four to five feet high plus the three feet so if the swell had not carried me to the beach I would have been in BIIIIIIIG trouble. I now have a number of different scoops, if I had not had the long handle heavy duty Nuttall scoop that day to push me off the bottom I would not have made it. I now carry a PFD with me to the beach, if I enter the water I put it on.
Should any of you folks be in the Cabo area and see a big guy wearing a life jacket in waist deep water it will be me, a lesson learnt.

Gerry