I took my wife once to the beach to detect after a storm. Big sand deposits with lagoons, cuts and rivers racing when the tide switch. She walked out on this peninsula and sank to her knees and couldn’t move, she was screaming for me to get her out. I was a hundred yards away and knew that she was ok but she didn’t know that. When I got within ten feet of her she started yelling quick sand. She wanted me to hold out my detector so she could grab it and be pulled out. I said , that could possibly break it and I didn’t want to chance it. Boy was that a mistake. I ended up going in behind her until I felt the soft sand, flipped the end of my belt to her and dragged her out on her side. Completely soaked and sandy , our day was over.
So no my wife doesn’t like metal detecting , especially at the beach.