davemill
Junior Member
Yesterday I was asked to find a ring lost by a woman during a football game in the grass at the San Francisco Presidio. Two people saw it fly off, so it should have been a slam dunk. This is where she was standing:
Fail #1: DFX with Bigfoot coil failed to ground balance, and chattered badly everywhere I tried to search over a 50-foot radius. No visible power lines.
Fail #2: AT-Pro failed to ground balance, chattered madly, and I could not notch out the problem. Hmmm....
Fail #3: Garrett ProPointer detected the grass from 8 inches/20cm everywhere. Here's the video:
Anyone know what's going on here? No matter where I went in the big grassy area, the pinpointer still detected the grass from 8 inches. I've detected over buried pipes, power lines, steel plates and fuel tanks, but never seen a situation like this. My guess is that there's a big UFO buried under the whole base. Or a more mundane explanation would be a steel plate or chain link fence a few inches down. Unfortunately for the curious, digging was not an option.
By the way, Fail #4: We searched on hands and knees for an hour until the light was gone. They gave up, but promised they would post on Craigslist.
Here's the YouTube link again if it doesn't work above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rzePxFNqr8
Here's where she was standing. The ring is likely in the quadrant to the north and west of this point. If anyone were to find it, I could connect you with them and they would likely pay a nice reward.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/3...2.4576417,90m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
Fail #1: DFX with Bigfoot coil failed to ground balance, and chattered badly everywhere I tried to search over a 50-foot radius. No visible power lines.
Fail #2: AT-Pro failed to ground balance, chattered madly, and I could not notch out the problem. Hmmm....
Fail #3: Garrett ProPointer detected the grass from 8 inches/20cm everywhere. Here's the video:
Anyone know what's going on here? No matter where I went in the big grassy area, the pinpointer still detected the grass from 8 inches. I've detected over buried pipes, power lines, steel plates and fuel tanks, but never seen a situation like this. My guess is that there's a big UFO buried under the whole base. Or a more mundane explanation would be a steel plate or chain link fence a few inches down. Unfortunately for the curious, digging was not an option.
By the way, Fail #4: We searched on hands and knees for an hour until the light was gone. They gave up, but promised they would post on Craigslist.
Here's the YouTube link again if it doesn't work above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rzePxFNqr8
Here's where she was standing. The ring is likely in the quadrant to the north and west of this point. If anyone were to find it, I could connect you with them and they would likely pay a nice reward.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/3...2.4576417,90m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0