An Unexpected Ride

Saturday I got a three hour hunt in. I did not find much searching in the wet sand, a coin or two here and there mostly pull tabs. So the sea was around 1 foot or less so I headed out into the water. About waist to chest deep the bottom was firm with a few fist sized rocks so I started an east west grid moving north. Only found one pull tab and the bottom got soft again. So I weaved in and out a bit found another promising area, grid again nothing. So i decided no move in a bit and suddenly stepped off in to the abyss. Normally I would just turn around and walk back but the long-shore current was moving faster than I had noticed and I could not touch bottom at all. Okay not to panic, think for a moment... if this is a feeder of a rip heading out into deeper water I don't really want that ride. Start swimming towards shore, scoop and detector in one hand and swimming with the other hand. Not so easy. I swam for what seemed like 5 minutes could have been less, before I was able to touch bottom again. During that time started to think: well if I have to the scoop goes first and then if necessary the detector but it did not come to that. Started hunting again, really think I Davey Jones should have rewarded me with some gold after that but nope!

Be careful gentleman and happy hunting!