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Buried treasure found!

Golden

Golden

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Hello all. Hubby and I enjoyed a great two days of full on detecting, snorkling and diving for buried treasure! The weather was terrific. and sea calm, and people round about were mostly in good spirits, having fun, soaking in the sun. At one beach there were a lot of diving activities going on with new and old divers enjoying themselves boat charters heading out with wreck divers, etc. Our tally for the two days is as stands: 111 coins for $47.21, a 9ct yellow gold ring, a silver ring, junk rings, a copper braclet and a gold-plated chain with heart encrusted with fake diamonds. On top of that lots of sinkers and the usual bits and pieces. In the evening we enjoyed walks on the piers and the Australia Day fireworks at night. Hope you like the pics.
Golden:detecting::)
 
Excellent Golden, Nothing like the show of gold in the scoop. Well done! How deep were you diving there? Live your dreams! HH regards Nugget.:detecting:
 
Gidday nugget, fairly shallow diving to about 12 feet or so. A lot of the targets were found were kids and adults jump off the pier ladders into the water. Out of reach of the conventional wader water detectorist! :detecting::)
 
Hey Golden, great haul once again. Seems like with the coin & lead count so good, there would be more gold in the nut. How does that work with people fishing off the pier and ya'll hooka-ing in the same waters? Do the fisherman ever cast your way and try to hit you or anything. They would certainly try that here, but maybe Americans are just a ruder bunch of folks, than you Aussies. Manners are certainly a subject worth teaching the crowds here today, savvy? Great hunt, as usual!
 
Gidday Gulfhunter, the piers are quite long, L shaped, and most of the fishermen fish toward the back. Some of the piers are reknown for diving activities and people just know to stay clear of the dive flags. The piers are also fairly wide, so the divers work their way between the pylongs. The water deeps as you go to about 20 feet or more on high tide. but no, we don't have a problem with fishermen, and they don't have a problem with us. I've never had a fisherman thrown in his line over me, usually they're pretty sensible buch of folk. you'd love the water here Gulf, crystal clear and clean! Not much kelp or seaweed around, except when you enter the kelp beds, and they are beautiful, great if you like taking pics!
Golden:detecting:
 
Hello Gulf, nope, no great whites here, but we do get them where the seals are. What we do get coming up in the waters we dive are the bronze whalers, around 4 metres long, big monsters! I haven't seen one yet, but I expect I will some day if I keep up the diving where I do. Some of the scuba divers come across them. Last week, one small beach was vacated due to a very large bronzie swimming around the pier. Same pier my hubby wanted me to dive for my favorite fighing lure I'd lost stuck on a pylong when fishing one night! What a fluke! On the same day the shark was there. Makes you ponder, doesn't it?!:look:
Golden:)
 
Well, I have never heard of a bronze whaler Golden. Could you send a pic of this shark, so we could see it? Must be an Aussie native, eh? Watch out fer 'em!
 
The Whites are certainly around, just not seen very often. Diving the clean water is best because if you can see them, they know it and will usually keep well clear. Divers make a lot of noise, air, etc, and this is also a bit of a deterrent to them, as it is foriegn. Most White shark attacks occur as an accident, they are curious and will bite to test what you are, then usually spit you out. Unfortunately, for the diver it's a bit too late. However the Bull's usually feed in murky water and are very aggressive, they will eat you with no hesitation at all. They are born in the fresh and can move between fresh and salt water easily, which they spend their life doing. They have been recorded up to 40+ miles inland from the river mouths. They are the one shark that I am very wary of! The saying among marine biologists is that if you act like prey, you will become prey. I will be investing in the shark shield diving system myself, although I will probably wait until the next generation of units are out. The manager of shark shield says that they should not interefere with Pulse induction detectors, or VLF. I'm going to trial one from my local dive shop soon hopefully, to make sure for myself. Will post the results in due course. Live your dreams! HH regards Nugget.:detecting:
 
I was wondering about the shark shield and if it had an effect on the detector. I know of crayfish divers who use the shield, more so for physicological reasons as they tend to dive alone. But the one I looked at, and it's in one of the dive shops not far from here, is supposed to work very well. I can't remember the brand, I just remember it's a nice little unit. Costs b/w $300 & $400 if I remember correctly. Honestly, about the only time I would get nervous in the water is when I snorkle out around 200m off shore, between the boats moored, looking for old bottles. When I'm out there in the deep blue ocean, with no reefs, seaweed or other water marks, it's kind of disconcerting. That's when I have to keep sharks off my mind. Besides, I like my bottling and detecting too much. Suppose it's a bit like surfers, scallop and abalone divers, and others. You just try not to think about it. The thing is, when snorkling, I'm also in the most vunerable position, being on the surface of the water. You're safer on the bottom. So I must look like a seal from the bottom looking up! Well, you got me going Nugget on this subject! Anyway, yep, I would like to know how the shark shield goes with detector in hand! :)
 
Don't have a photo of a Bronzie, but if you check it out on the net, you'll see what it is. I overheard a fellow over the weekend sharing his little experience with one such shark coming up to him, fairly curious, and he was rapted. Didn't have a camera on him. He was telling his scuba partner, and her being a female and all, I wondered if she was genually interested in meeting one or just humouring him! They were suited up ready for a dive! Wish I was a fly on the wall, (in this case a diving fly!):wiggle:
 
Yep, good ole Portsea pier, I know it well!
Actually, would have thought there would be more in the way of jewellry to be found there. Same goes for
Rye pier, plenty of coins but no bling.
Would'nt put to much faith in the different shark shields. They'll put off a merely curious shark but a merely
curious shark is not the one to worry about. Active predators like whites, tigers, bulls etc often have to deal with wary and elusive prey and as such come barreling in at 100 mph. When this happens nothing, repeat nothing will stop them.
Experiments involving fresh tuna baits suspended next to a shark shield put a big white off for a short while before it eventually got real annoyed, backed off a bit and then just charged in and ate the bait.
So far I know of only one fatality where a diver was wearing a shield. He was a young W.A. scallop diver working on hookah... his deckhand realised something was amiss and pulled what was left of him aboard via the hose with the white that killed him trying for another mouthful. The shield was working cause the pulses it emits were electrocuting the decky as he was pulling him aboard.
I've been diving for 37 yrs and had plenty to do with sharks, including suffering a nip on the shoulder by an 8' seven gill and also the loss of a dear friend on 26th Nov. 1997 whilst we were spearing at Saumarez Reef in the Coral Sea, probabley to a tiger. I still would'nt waste my money on a sheild.
I believe their only use is for the "feel good factor."
Cheers Lou.
 
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