in the water and something unusual

[plymouthian12]

a silver earring and a 14k white gold band tell me if anyone ever had this happen to them while detecting in the water tonight i got a low and very soft tone so i dug only thing in scoop is a quahog tossed it aside and thought must be there from the nor-easter we just had.a little bit long goes by and same sound again a quahog altogether i dug 13 low and soft tones and got 13 quahogs.why would they set my excal off

 

[Crispy Critter]

What's a "quahog"?

 

[Gerry]

"quahog"?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[ivanll]

It's one way of finding a seafood meal with a metal detector.

If not into "Quahog" or Hard Clam.

Change the ground balance slightly, or ground balance above one.

Like not detecting wood before it is charcoal after having been in a camp fire.

ivanll

 

[thevacantface]

might be telling you how toxic the water is in the area you are hunting, shellfish tend to accumulate heavy metals and such in their bodies and shells, such as mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, polonium, and chromium. If enough is stored, then you would get a reading.

 

[BigDan]

I use Excaliburs which are very sensitive. Many times I have had the same situation as you described only to bring up burrowing eel type fish . Having used Minelab gold machines before, I kown they can often pick up the iron content in the blood of the user's hand when waved over the coil. I attribute your clam (I live on Cape Cod but will use the the generic term so all can understand) also to its metallic content.

 

[Magyar]

n/t

 

[John (west central FL)]

I've always thought it had something to do with a difference in salinity between their blood and the surrounding sea water. I would think that could be true for large clams too.

 

[JOHNMARKHAM]

now this is interesting, ive never had this happen but will keep it in mind tho.
thanks for sharring
hh
john

 

[time4me]

I've had the same thing happen with big pink jellyfish that were all over the beach one day. They each gave off a signal with my excalibur.

 

[Dirt Poor]

Interesting subject!!

 

[kered]

I get a reading on heavy kelp(seaweed)in my area, they used to use an extract from it to make iron tablets