safari in foot of ocean, fully submerged, and wet Ocean Beach on East coast?

[stemp]

I am at ocean and salt beaches from ct to Nj. how does this cut into the black sand. I had my explorer ll stolen from me the first day back from a repair from Kellyco. thinkin' about the Safari

 

[treasure_hunter]

It works pretty good, per Andy Sabisch in Lost Treasure Magazine found that the Safari handled "wet, salt-laden black sand with ease".

 

[glenn3-88]

I have one and it works great but it can't be submerged, I wouldn't even use it in a heavy rain

 

[stemp]

sorry, I Meant the coil being fully submerged in 1 foot of salt water or less

 

[Goldstrike]

The coil is waterproof and I don't think it would matter if it was saltwater or freshwater. The Safari is not designed to take into any body of water because of the risk you take in dropping the whole detector into the water. The only thing you have to be extremely careful about is to NOT raise the coil end above the electronics/handle end of the detector because the saltwater (and freshwater)! will drain down onto the board and short circuit the board and that will be the end of that detector!
Hopefully, what you did and what I would do is to let the detector drain in the upright position and rinse the coil off with fresh water to get the corrosive salt off and let it dry out before you use it again.
P.s. I have a saltwater swimming pool and accidentally dropped my cell phone in it one time. I was very quick to fish it out, just a few seconds but that was all it took to fry the phone!

 

[KinTN]

I have used mine in ankle deep+ water and it was fine. (heed Goldstrike's warnings)
I, however, almost had a heart attack when it slipped and almost got dunked as a wave rolled by.
Never again did I risk it. Bought an Excal for the wet work.