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ScubaDetector said:

Folks at marina's are getting smart! I get a call about a gold chain that fell between cracks in a dock. i figure I could feel it in the muck if I moved very slow. No luck trying to feel for it. They tell me it had a gold boat pendant on it. GREAT. I take my Tiger Shark down and after a few beeps and I had it in my hand. Dock next to him had lost a set of keys a few weeks earlier. Went down and got them in a few seconds. Then another few docks down a pair of Oakley glasses last year. No problem. Snagged them also. Next was a fishing pole lost last year. That was nowhere to be found. Maybe a fish dragged it away, No idea. Then I was told of a I-phone off the party dock! On my way there I was told about a chair that went swimming off another dock the day before. Went down and got the chair. Then I swam further down and got the I-phone. Not a bad average but if I would have stayed longer I probably would have found that fishing pole.

This summer has been absolutely WILD. Between all the finds I have 53 five star reviews on Facebook now and not even half left them. It has been a wild fun ride.

I took my friend Paula metal detecting yesterday and I think she got a gold wire ring. We didn't look closely at it yet actually. We were busy and very tired when I took her home. I will get a picture and post her finds today sometime. We dove the first time together the day before yesterday and absolutely enjoyed the time we had together underwater.

Some folks will be very happy to hear that this year has been my absolute worst in finding wild gold since around 2003. If I have counted right I have 7 rings and a bracelet.

However, it has been my very best year in the water finding things for folks. My summers are changing gears. I am sure they will continue but better. I am thinking that there will be no more scubadetector next summer. I really am hoping there is going to be a scubadetetector team. But no matter what happens I think my diving for folks is going to pick up big time.

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Tom_in_CA said:

Great play-by-play stories as usual Scuba !

With all your experience at this, you would get a laugh at a documentary I watched once: Some archaeologist dudes were studying the stuff at some ancient European lake. They had found old medieval swords under where piers on the lake, had been during medieval times.

And the archie is interviewed, giving his theory about how there must have been some religious ceremonial reason. Ie.: "The warriors offered up their swords to appease the gods, before going into battle". And then he showed the viewers how it probably was done, by mimicking a tossing one's sword over the side of the dock.

But as you well know, that's utter nonsense. People loose stuff over the sides of docks, all the time. With zero ceremonial or ritual significance.

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