As an avid beach hunter I have found that most of my rings have been recovered in an area from a few feet above the high tide line out to (depending on the beach) 50' in the water from the low tide line.
Concentrations have always been greatest just below the water line at low tide and thinning out from there.
How people act when in the water and as they enter and leave the water offers clues to what happens to cause them to lose rings.
The beaches where I hunt are smaller than most public beaches, meaning that people must congregate along the lines I mentioned above.
The water is cold year round here shrinking sun-block greased hands and allowing rings to fall off, especially when shook (as when people shake their hands to "get the water off") as they leave the water and when they are engaged in activities such a frisbee or ball throwing.
When a desparate ring owner comes to me to recover their ring, they often tell me of how they saw the ring following a tossed ball as it sailed through the air toward a son, brother, darghter, friend, etc.
On the beach they get lost sometimes because the owner was trying to prevent their loss by placing them in a pocket, bag, tote or elsewhere, such as the cup holder in a beach chair like one fellow I know did.
When leaving the beach he folded the chair, forgetting the ring, and shouldering it headed to the car.
Only on arriving home did he think of the ring. I've spent many hours searching for that one, but I'm certain it "got legs" and walked away with the help of another person at the beach, got caught up by the beach sweeping machine or is still there, somehow missed by these posibilities, waiting for me and my Sovreign GT.
Sand levels lowered by wave action, storms and other occurances sometime recognized by "cuts" into the line that is the water's edge that are deeper than the rest of the water line.
Studying these things on a beach with an awareness of how they can occur will give a hunter "an edge" over those who are unaware of them.
There are many other considerations that will become obvious to a hunter when he/she learns to see a beach through a "Hunter's" eyes!
GL&HH Fellow Hunters,
CJ
Concentrations have always been greatest just below the water line at low tide and thinning out from there.
How people act when in the water and as they enter and leave the water offers clues to what happens to cause them to lose rings.
The beaches where I hunt are smaller than most public beaches, meaning that people must congregate along the lines I mentioned above.
The water is cold year round here shrinking sun-block greased hands and allowing rings to fall off, especially when shook (as when people shake their hands to "get the water off") as they leave the water and when they are engaged in activities such a frisbee or ball throwing.
When a desparate ring owner comes to me to recover their ring, they often tell me of how they saw the ring following a tossed ball as it sailed through the air toward a son, brother, darghter, friend, etc.
On the beach they get lost sometimes because the owner was trying to prevent their loss by placing them in a pocket, bag, tote or elsewhere, such as the cup holder in a beach chair like one fellow I know did.
When leaving the beach he folded the chair, forgetting the ring, and shouldering it headed to the car.
Only on arriving home did he think of the ring. I've spent many hours searching for that one, but I'm certain it "got legs" and walked away with the help of another person at the beach, got caught up by the beach sweeping machine or is still there, somehow missed by these posibilities, waiting for me and my Sovreign GT.
Sand levels lowered by wave action, storms and other occurances sometime recognized by "cuts" into the line that is the water's edge that are deeper than the rest of the water line.
Studying these things on a beach with an awareness of how they can occur will give a hunter "an edge" over those who are unaware of them.
There are many other considerations that will become obvious to a hunter when he/she learns to see a beach through a "Hunter's" eyes!
GL&HH Fellow Hunters,
CJ
