Hunting in the water advise.

[candcantiques]

I got a nice strong signal today right where the waves were coming in here in Daytona. I tried to dig but it was below my scoops depth and the waves would come in and fill the hole with more sand every time. Is there any special technique to digging in the water when it's deep?

 

[dahut]

I got a nice strong signal today right where the waves were coming in here in Daytona. I tried to dig but it was below my scoops depth and the waves would come in and fill the hole with more sand every time. Is there any special technique to digging in the water when it's deep?[/quote
Trade up to a bigger scoop. I'm talking one of them big suckers. You gotta get to it quick and get it out.

Could it have been falsing? What were the settings on that Cobra?

 

[candcantiques]

I was getting a good strong repeating signal with an Ace 250. Sensitivity way dow to 3 bars and discriminating out iron only.

 

[jimmy jam]

It is a technique. push the scoop down,wait for the wave to pass then pull the scoop out not dumping it yet, then scan again, if it is still there, then dump the scoop and dig again, keeping the scoop in the hole until the wave passes. the idea is to get the scoop deeper and hold until the wave passes. you have got to be fast! if you scan again and its not there, then walk the full scoop to dry sand dump and scan. It is not easy to explain in words, so i hope this helps.

 

[candcantiques]

Thats exactly what I was doing but just couldnt get deep enough. Several times the entire scoop became buried under 4-5" of sand and had a heck of a time pulling it out.

 

[John-Edmonton]

There comes a point in depth where the hole keeps filling in on itself. Unless you take a long shovel with you where you can produce even larger,deeper digs more quickly, you have to walk away.

But....chances are, that the target was a large piece of junk, as the detector you were using is not a PI unit and will not get any significant depth on coin/ring sized objects.