Thanks guys!
It's my first gold with the Dual Field, I have found gold rings with three other detector before!
On snorkelling, the waters at my beaches are icy cold - in the summer! I didn't wear any head wetsuit (I don't know what they're actually called), but I would recommend something to keep your head warm. Make sure you are weighted correctly as I found out... 7 kg wasn't enough for me, it will be trial and error to know how much I need unless someone gives me some advice on that
. It was impossible for me to get anywhere near the target. Having a floating coil didn't help, it gets in the way (even though I weighted it down using marbles, best I could do). Otherwise it would have been fun.
One thing I struggle with when fanning is seeing/trying to find the non-shiny targets. Not sure how I'm going to dig deep targets either.
gin&kin:
Let us know how the snorkelling detecting goes. I want to try it here in Japan the next northern summer. What do you think, better to use the DF (on order) or Excal?
Definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, take the Excal. On the DF, the floating coil will be brutal, going for deep targets I assume would be hard as well, especially as you first start doing this. Iron junk is hard to spot, it would be good to skip past those as well. Though there shouldn't be too much iron in deeper waters, as with my beaches.
Try the DF when you get better at snorkel detecting. Actually, if you haven't snorkelled before, try that first without the detector. Try fanning as well.
Also, for non-motion detectors, there's a technique that I read about in helping to retrieve targets when using the fanning technique (though I've never tried it because I mostly used motion detectors); you leave the detector over the target as you fan. Whey you hear that the target has moved, you know you're ready to retrieve it. I tried this with motion detectors, and it's hard to tell when the target moved.
Oldbeechnut has clips on youtube of himself snorkel detecting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaLKI0PWgg
Maybe he can chime in.
Any other experts out there who can chime in on this technique?
moments, gave him a typical reply; "bit of this, bit of that...". Went straight into the water, first signal was the gold. Didn't find anything else interesting except a few coins, even though I stayed for 4 hours.
Great find!
Is that your first gold ever or just the first with the Dual Field?
Looking forward to trying these techniques next year.
