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Nice Gold Braclet.. 30 ft down.

Maui Mike

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Found me a nice Gold braclet.... and this one at 30 ft.. was a sparkel i saw and free dove down and got.. 14K.. fits my Bonny's wrist.Yup she loves it!
Shaka Mikey:bthumb
 
Fantastic.....what a brill way to hunt, must take a little bit of doing diving like that, must have felt good to surface with it in your hands
 
Awesome!!!
 
Aw.. Shucks... I was hoping see some awesome pile of sand you heaped up digging a 30 foot hole with your PI detector. LOL!
 
DukeOBass said:
Aw.. Shucks... I was hoping see some awesome pile of sand you heaped up digging a 30 foot hole with your PI detector. LOL!

When I got a signal and begin digging I won`t quit until I got the target. If it means 30` - so be it!
 
Good eye!
 
LOL! I'm in Central Pennsylvania. I would love to live where the sand is but not the desert.
 
Hi mike mate is it a coral bottom where you dive? ,when i was detecting waikiki i saw that the sand finished at the waters edge and would have loved to have a scuba tank and just crawl along the edge i reckon there would be heaps of goodies there.terry in oz
 
Where i found the braclet, the bottom was mixed coral and rubble, little sand there. It is at an of shore island.But most of my detecting is either on beach wet/dry, or in water that has sand on the bottom and coral.. algae too.. shaka Mikey:thumbup:
 
I lost a rod and reel in 22 feet of water the other day, but it will STAY there until such time as I bring the hookah unit over and THEN I can take the plunge.

Good lookin' loot, Mike.

Once I spied an 18" gold necklas at about 10 feet below the thermocline. I was diving in cutoffs and I went down three times before just biting the bullet and making myself retrieve the necklas. All giggly, I placed it in my goody bag, grinnin' like a jackass eatin' briars. I got to the top and looked it over. To my angst, I realized it was PLATED. :lol:

Glad yours turned out great.


aj
 
Hey arkie best way to get down is grab a BIG rock and jump over the side and go down fast come up slow, i saw the natives doing this at a place called million dollar point in thr new Hebrides they were getting down to some unreal depths and un doing the wheel nuts of the army trucks that were dumped there during the pacific battle the Americans drove all kind of gear off the end of the wharf and then blew up the wharf when the japs were coming down through the coral sea.terry
 
Reminds me of a story--A friend of mine (no longer with us) was in St Thomas, VI enjoying a day at the beach when he spotted a twenty dollar bill deep in the water. The water was so clear he couldn't tell how deeeeep it was. He exhausted himself trying to retrieve the money and couldn't do it!!

This is the same guy that, a few yards from where he saw the twenty, picked up a flawless half karat diamond off the dry sand where he saw a glitter as people walked over it!!! (He showed the diamond to me and was it a beauty!!!

I don't think he ever owned a detector!!!

Some of us are natural hunters and some of us are natural finders it seems.

GL&HH Friends,

Cupajo
 
When i was a kid we would take a belt with dive weights tied to a 30ft. to 40ft. line. With the extra weight it was easy to get to the bottom of the springs then drop the belt when you were ready to surface, then pull the belt back up and get ready to go again. I could hold my breath over 2 minutes back then, but never again. I'll stick with just wadding waist to chest deep with the Excal.
 
Thanks for the warning Kyle, glad i am a seasoned free diver.. 30ft was shallow to me. shaka Mikey:thumbup:
 
At the risk of sounding like a smart arse....

Not in a million years will you get bent freediving 30'!

The principle behind decompression sickness,{the bends} is that nitrogen, which makes up approx 80% of the air that we breath, becomes liquid under pressure.
When breathing compressed air at depth, tiny droplets of liquid nitrogen are absorbed into the bloodstream through the normal breathing process. The more time at depth, the more nitrogen is absorbed.
To rid the body of this excess nitrogen, one must surface slowly or stop at certain predetermined depths to allow that liquid nitrogen to turn back into a gas and escape through the lungs as one breathes.
By surfacing to fast, as the water pressure decreases these droplets will become a gas again forming bubbles in your bloodstream. These bubbles tend to aggregate in the joints, especially the shoulder, but can occur anywhere in the body including the brain.

Short term can cause excruciating pain and even death.
Longterm can lead to bone necrosis.

To run the risk of being bent at 30', you've got to spend something like 4 hours breathing compressed air at this depth and then swim rapidly to the surface.

Granted, there have been literally a FEW cases of freedivers suffering the bends, but these guys were all snorkelling repeatedly in excess of 100' for at least 5 hours.
Personally, I find these claims hard to believe.
But it COULD happen at these depths.

Cheers Lou.
 
Well I'm no diver but I wouldn't lie about this. He was free driving at about 30ft in Lake havasu spear fishing. He's not a free driver at all but has surfed as he lives in Socal. He told me he took a really deep breath and went to the bottom and was trying to get this fish so he ran out of air. He said he pushed off the bottom and went up as fast as he could because he was out of air. He said he was fine about 15 mins then in the boat he was feeling like he couldn't breathe. His chest was hurting then he noticed small bubbles under his neck skin. He went to the Doctor where they observed him and told him he had the bends. There was air bubbles trapped around his lungs and heart on the Xray. Not sure if that's oxygen or nitrogen he didn't say. They let him out the next day then he had several seizures and he was taken back. He then got air lifted to Las Vegas so a specialist could help him for it. He's ok now but can't ride on airplanes or diver anymore for awhile.
I always thought you get the bends at lower diving depths but apparently it's possible to get it in shallow dives. In fact I was reading they think some other disease that pacific islanders get like in Samoa is actually a form of the bends. I guess those people dive as part of their culture or something either for food or pearls or something. I read this a couple months ago so forgive me if it sounds not PC or something.
 
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