No saltwater detecting along FL east coast?

[FelixtheCat]

Had a friend who grew up in Cocoa Beach and routinely walked the beach at dawn. Told me he found HUNDREDS of funny shaped black discs which he would skim back across the waves. Later he found out they we're were all silver coins from a shipwreck.

Said he threw away his college education and a nice house....

A good friend of mine that now detects told me he did the same thing as a kid! I gotta find me some of those black discs!

Also, I think at State Parks that are located on beaches you're not allowed to detect in the water. (I'm not 100% on this)

 

[Gold Digger 2]

I spent a weekend in Jupiter near the treasure coast on asked a life guard and he said as long as you do not have a snorkel, mask, or diving tank, you are good to go,,,,he also gave me a tip to one of the beaches I hunted cops were around and they never said a word to me, they did to the people with their dog though,,,it is a little area by the inlet that I hunted where people tube down, and it had real potential,,,,only found one nice silver ring but had fun and was more about the wife that weekend than hunting,,,GL HH

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Interesting how many people posted advise that is just plain wrong.....

Two reasons why this repeatedly occurs:

a) human "caution level". Ie.: risk-assesment. Afterall no one wants to "get arrested" or "get a ticket", and "better safe than sorry", right? So if you read it somewhere (EVEN IF NOT TRUE), human nature kicks in, and you repeat it as a warning. Ie.: "I heard that such & such is off-limits". Well gee, where did you hear that? Where is that written? And funny thing is, you can often find some bureaucrat to maybe even say this if you ask long enough and hard enough (the "safe" answer). Hence only adding to the confusion, where one lone post gets on the internet, where someone found some silly answer, or morphs something else to apply. And pretty soon, all the old-timers are scratching their heads saying "since when?"

b) Even if the answer is quelled, and the rumors put-to-rest that an area (park, beach, city, state, etc..) is NOT "off-limits", yet the mere fact that a thread EVEN EXISTED on the subject, merely works off the psychology in #1, to ..... guess what? Repeatedly bring up the same subject, which, again, only feeds on itself with other skittish people thinking "gee, there must be something wrong then". And guess what those skittish people do then? Rush down to archies and bored bureaucrat's asking "can I?". See the vicious circle ?