2nd Video hunting Freshwater lake

[BootyHunter]

So after my first video I decided I wanted to try again. This time I started and stopped the video fairly often so I could edit the better parts together. I found a few things as you will see on the video. This is only the 4th time that I used the hookah and the 2nd time using the videomask so I am still getting used to everything. I did remember my neoprene gloves for this dive and I made a plastic scoop out of an old drink mug and it worked pretty well as you will see on the video. I got the idea for the scoop from another youtube video and you can find that one if you search a little. I am always open to constructive criticism so fire away, thanks for watching my video. HH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tfnr7utj8

 

[John(Tx)]

Looks like you got a couple of pieces of jewelry, maybe include a pic of them next time. That hooka looks like it does the job. Thanks for sharing. John

 

[Ron Lord]

Watch your video ,your missing alot ground under water,if you overlapped your coil .You will find more, don't do the big V pattern.Over lap!!

 

[Gulf Hunter]

I agree with JL, but I also feel like you lost too much time using that damn cup. Seems like by the end of the last hunt you were fanning 'em up quite proficiently. The cup is stirring up as much sand as your fanning was. Seems like when you patted at the sand last hunt it was highly effective. Keep 'em coming, that looks like a blast!

 

[grumpyolman]

The non-overlapping swing of the detector is the very first thing I noticed also. Saw it and thought about it even before I read GH's comment. However, I do hunt like that when scouting a new area. I randomly swim around and 'test' the water so to speak. If it looks good and deserves a thorough search I lay 50' bottom lines out and use that as a guide guaranteeing overlap and pretty serious coverage of the entire area.

Saw you wrestling with the hookah lines. Looks really familiar. I went to overstock.com and bought two cheap hose reels and mounted them on the wagon I use to get the gear to the beach. The hose is much easier to get rolled out and is much easier to put back when done. There's a picture of them on one of my posts where I displayed my gear. However, once in the water and after a little moving around, they want to go their own way no matter what you do.

The sound was familiar also. I could hear the engine and the compressor. If you add an accumulator tank onto that, you won't feel the pulsing and the vibration in the hose as much as most of that will be absorbed inside the tank. The next thing is to build a mod that when the accumulator tank gets up to a certain pressure, the engine drops down into idle. When the pressure gets down, it goes back up. Something else to consider when diving alone shallow. You don't have to run the engine at it's working goverened RPM. That setting is for max air output. The max number of divers using it and the deepest rated depth for the unit. After some careful questioning on the one I had, with the manufacturer, they can't recommend that you do that because of liability. Common sense dictates that if there is less air being consumed, the engine doesn't have to operate as fast to supply what's needed. Mine was a lot more liveable after I adjusted the throttle for what I was doing. Before the engine was running at working RPM and the pop-off valve was cycling every 10 seconds. That was obnoxious and was a waste of air. You just gotta make sure that you don't set the idle so low that if you put a demand on the engine it will stall. Try it on the shore for a bit and you'll find out if you want to do that or not.

I second what GH said. Get rid of that miserable cup. If you just fan your hand, hard and the pinpointed spot, all the light stuff will take off and the coins/jewery will stay in the hole you are digging. The vis is so good there and clears up so fast that the fanning technique will improve you recovery rate and will eventually provide moore loot for the time spent hunting. jim

 

[JOHNMARKHAM]

nice video thanks for sharring
hh
john

 

[BootyHunter]

Thanks for the comments and the ideas, I asked for them and I appreciate them. The only advantage to the cup is that when I was hunting without the cup the first time, I "wasted" several minutes chasing after a few round mettallic objects smaller than the smallest "button" battery and that was not on the first video. I made the cup with really small holes in the bottom to catch earring backs and the type of targets like the small items I chased on the first hunt. In hindsight I think a combination of the techniques, fanning first and then if having a hard time locating using the sifter. As for the overlapping of the coil, I agree and usually do that when trying to clean out an area, however at this place I am looking for "hot spots" of activity right now but will do an all day hunt to methodically cover the area before the swimming season ends. Thanks for all the comments and ideas and hope to find something really good for a future video. Also think I will leave the camera off until I acquire a target and then record the digging only to save space on my sd card. Thanks and HH.

 

[georgefrombc]

booty that is what i have been doing with the video, turning off till i get a target. works quit well that way. the cup idea i think is not that bad, considering where i detect at because of the cloud of mud i stir up. keep up the awesome work, and congrats on the videos they are great ty.