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Re: water machine

sasquache

Well-known member
Just purchased a Tesoro tiger shark with 8 inch coil and I'm wondering how to run this unit for fresh and salt water also i need to get a owners manual. Thank you Paul
 
I would also like to know how the Tiger Shark would work in saltwater. This machine has traditionally been described as a fresh water unit; and a good one. Feedback, anyone? Duck!
 
It is not very good when it comes to salt water beaches. The dry sand is OK. As soon as you get into the wet salt sand , it will start to go crazy.

KEN
 
I have used my Tiger Shark in wet salt sand, it runs stable in white sand beaches in the Caribbean, and struggles in black sand streaks of America's gulf coast. It's still very useable on the gulf coast, no single frequency VLF machine made is going to ground balance in black streaks as the mineralization changes significantly in very short distances, less than one coil sweep. Depth for coin size objects is 5 or 6 inches in salt mode. If you use it often in salt water, you may want to consider a multi frequency machine like a Minelab Excalibur. Avoid the temptation to get a PI machine, they ignore the mineralization and go deep, but without discrimination you will spend your day digging every bit of iron at crazy deep depths while the rest of us are finding the good targets.
 
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