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Cruise Line PROHIBITS Metal Detectors

WaterWalker

WaterWalker

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Getting ready to cruise with Norwegian Cruise Lines and read the latest...

Prohibited Items List​

31. Metal detectors

I had not planed on taking my detector this time as I was heading to Canada, not the Caribbean.
I will read the Prohibited Item list prior to making future reservations, not only for the area I am
going to but the means of travel. Having had my equipment confiscated in Jamaica I have learned
to do just that.
 
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Jamaica's Ministry of National Security Restricted Item list....

Metal Detectors! Camo underware....don't wear going thru customs..
 
It's getting fewer and fewer places to metal detect. It seems in the past couple of years people resent people with metal detectors. I've been out in parks and even at the beach and it seems more people turn their nose up at you and even get verbal at times like I'm taking something that belongs to them. I was down in the Islands a few years ago after the storms went through them and while detecting the beach, a big dude approached me yelling and screaming to leave and how thoughtless I was and started cursing me out. My wife was also metal detecting further down the beach and heard the ruckus and started heading my way and I waved her off to stay put. I told the guy I usually don't keep what I find and I usually turn my finds in to a life guard or someone who is in charge of the beach to try and find the home of the errant items. That seemed to calm him a little and he walked away.
 
mtdoramike said:
It's getting fewer and fewer places to metal detect. It seems in the past couple of years people resent people with metal detectors. I've been out in parks and even at the beach and it seems more people turn their nose up at you and even get verbal at times like I'm taking something that belongs to them. I was down in the Islands a few years ago after the storms went through them and while detecting the beach, a big dude approached me yelling and screaming to leave and how thoughtless I was and started cursing me out. My wife was also metal detecting further down the beach and heard the ruckus and started heading my way and I waved her off to stay put. I told the guy I usually don't keep what I find and I usually turn my finds in to a life guard or someone who is in charge of the beach to try and find the home of the errant items. That seemed to calm him a little and he walked away.
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Who the F** was this guy telling you to leave a public beach ?? Some A-Hole trying to intimidate you.. NO WAY would have I pacified this guy by telling him you turn over your stuff to the life guards.. My first response to him would have been who the F** do you think your talking to ??? If he still persisted, he'd have a problem for sure.

Mark ( ohio )
 
Mark ( ohio ) said:
Who the F** was this guy telling you to leave a public beach ?? Some A-Hole trying to intimidate you.. NO WAY would have I pacified this guy by telling him you turn over your stuff to the life guards.. My first response to him would have been who the F** do you think your talking to ??? If he still persisted, he'd have a problem for sure.

Mark ( ohio )
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Back in my prime, I most likely would have done just that if not went a little further. But old age and a bad ticker gives you a little more patience and wisdom to deal with pricks like him. Plus I had a pretty good sized sand scoop hanging off my shoulder cocked and ready if needed. I was more glad that he chose me to harass me than my wife who was just a little further down the beach. I tried to explain to the guy that most metal detectorist try to go above and beyond to find owners of property that we find and it's a hobby, not a livelihood. But he was so angry, he wouldn't listen to any of it. I guess he was having a bad day, which is better than both of us having a bad day if I had laid him out with my beach scoop, which in Florida, I would probably have been justified because we have a stand your ground law here. Some times it's easier or better to step around a problem if you can.
 
mtdoramike said:
Back in my prime, I most likely would have done just that if not went a little further. But old age and a bad ticker gives you a little more patience and wisdom to deal with pricks like him. Plus I had a pretty good sized sand scoop hanging off my shoulder cocked and ready if needed. I was more glad that he chose me to harass me than my wife who was just a little further down the beach. I tried to explain to the guy that most metal detectorist try to go above and beyond to find owners of property that we find and it's a hobby, not a livelihood. But he was so angry, he wouldn't listen to any of it. I guess he was having a bad day, which is better than both of us having a bad day if I had laid him out with my beach scoop, which in Florida, I would probably have been justified because we have a stand your ground law here. Some times it's easier or better to step around a problem if you can.
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Mike, you are absolutely right on your last sentence statement.. Age and knee surgeries have made me a bit slower than my better yrs too. A HEAVY beach scoop would put a world of hurting on a diarrhea mouth runnin knucklehead for sure. Glad he didn't confront your wife tho, then it would have been GAME ON..

Keep swinging my friend.. Mark ( ohio )
 
mtdoramike said:
It's getting fewer and fewer places to metal detect. It seems in the past couple of years people resent people with metal detectors. I've been out in parks and even at the beach and it seems more people turn their nose up at you and even get verbal at times like I'm taking something that belongs to them. I was down in the Islands a few years ago after the storms went through them and while detecting the beach, a big dude approached me yelling and screaming to leave and how thoughtless I was and started cursing me out. My wife was also metal detecting further down the beach and heard the ruckus and started heading my way and I waved her off to stay put. I told the guy I usually don't keep what I find and I usually turn my finds in to a life guard or someone who is in charge of the beach to try and find the home of the errant items. That seemed to calm him a little and he walked away.
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Don't you research before you vacation. I always call local police and usually talk to a detective. If it is legal I tell them the place will be like I found it never had a problem. Find a better place to vacation if you want to detect or make a few calls easy peasy. Don't be shy the tax payer pays for all.
 
autopilot42 said:
Don't you research before you vacation. I always call local police and usually talk to a detective. If it is legal I tell them the place will be like I found it never had a problem. Find a better place to vacation if you want to detect or make a few calls easy peasy. Don't be shy the tax payer pays for all.
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I wasn't vacationing, it occurred Ormond Beach. I live 60 miles from the Ormond Daytona beach area and try to get over that way 3-4 times a year. So it was more or less in my back yard.
 
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