Oh! I didn't realize. I thought I'd seen other ATP users advise not to submerge the control box (I have a cheaper unit for dry sand-- mine is not even slightly waterproof). 
Looking at their advertising, indeed-- waterproof up to 10 feet! Thats cool!
Maybe others using ATP in the surf can say whether or not they'd be comfortable letting it get dunked?
I just know you definitely don't want to risk submerging a control box unless you're 100% sure it's ok. Just a little salt water inside can be enough to mess it up badly.
I dont know if you came down, but we got a hell of a storm.
It eroded much of the sand down about 3 feet in the myrtle beach area.
Finding 50 cc Casings from WWII again, ( MB was a training beach for planes back then) also, better gold rings and a few silver coins too!
I use a ATP too, so my wet sand setting is NOT PRO mode, coin, with the Discrim down to 3 notches.
You wont fine much beach left right now so plan on low tide detecting. If you can go to the lower south end of Garden City beach at the Inlet point, I think you might find some good targets there, because the wind was driving the waves toward the inlet.
ps. Let me know if the beach is showing the old ship wreck by the inlet.
Keep in Touch and Happy Combing!!!
Mike in Myrtle
Anytime Dave,
One other thing about Surfside and Garden City is the lack of beach width after the hurricane, they are replenishing next year i think, if not now, it they are then drive up to 2nd Ave pier in south MB, really high traffic during the summer, Look for the Sand bars and hunt in the dip in between. just remember the settings and ground balance between wet and dry sand.
Yeah, Myrtle Beach also had a German internment camp up by me on 79th ave north, and they helped build the MB state park and part of the old air force base, now called MB intern airport. Heck George Washington stayed here and the movie about the Patriot (Mel Gibson) was based on the Swamp Fox in Georgetown 30 miles south. Lots of relics around here!!
Mike in Myrtle
