... detecting in the sea is not for the faint of heart. Read these true story's
One of my customers was water detecting in the Keys, he let loose of his detector to use both hands to recover a target with his long handle scoop. About that time a huge barracuda grabbed his coil and took off with his machine ..... tore the headphones right off his head. He was able to finally recover his detector a few feet away when the cuda dropped it.
A few years back, my UK friends were detecting on one of the European island beaches they used to regularly detect. He was searching next to an old wooden pier that was mostly rotted away. Suddenly his detector coil got hung up ... stuck where he could hardly move it. He jerked on it a bit and got it somewhat loose when suddenly the detector was snatched back toward the old pier post ...... this went on for a few minutes until it finally came free but very heavy like it was gobbed up with thick gooey mud.
When he brought the coil to the surface an octopus was gripping the coil. After a minute or so the octopus decided to give up his detector meal and return to it's hiding spot next to the pier post.
One of my customers was water detecting in the Keys, he let loose of his detector to use both hands to recover a target with his long handle scoop. About that time a huge barracuda grabbed his coil and took off with his machine ..... tore the headphones right off his head. He was able to finally recover his detector a few feet away when the cuda dropped it.
A few years back, my UK friends were detecting on one of the European island beaches they used to regularly detect. He was searching next to an old wooden pier that was mostly rotted away. Suddenly his detector coil got hung up ... stuck where he could hardly move it. He jerked on it a bit and got it somewhat loose when suddenly the detector was snatched back toward the old pier post ...... this went on for a few minutes until it finally came free but very heavy like it was gobbed up with thick gooey mud.
When he brought the coil to the surface an octopus was gripping the coil. After a minute or so the octopus decided to give up his detector meal and return to it's hiding spot next to the pier post.
