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K&T said:

.... get permission! ....

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Tom_in_CA said:

A quick look at the map shows that Port S. John and Cocoa Beach are not that far apart. So why is it "tricky" for one person to find places to detect, while the next person(s) , in the exact same area, never lack for places to hunt ?

I have a feeling that scgator's buddy is "over-thinking" things. I suppose there's not a single place in the USA, that ... if any hunter went knocking on enough doors, asking enough pencil pushers, that ....sure, they would not find "express allowances" or "red-carpets" rolled out for them. They might find someone who says "no", hence finding it "tricky".

We had a case here in CA, at a beach near me, where it's just always-ever been detected, since the dawn-of-time. Then one day, someone sent in an inquiry by hitting the "contact us" button of the state of CA beach-park administration website people. Someone in Sacramento sent back a "no" (based on prohibitions of "harvest and collect" verbiage). Yet, you can detect till you're blue in the face, and .... it's never an issue. Thus it's obvious they got a lame "safe" answer from some pencil jockey, that means nothing at all.

So too do I wonder sometimes, when someone says they "can't find a straight answer" or that it's "tricky", is merely a part of the daisy-chain of "no one cared till you asked" psychology.

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OB Wan said:

Tom in Cal, if you are trying to rub folks the wrong way ....

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Tom_in_CA said:

OB-wan, I did not mean to rub you the wrong way. FL comes up over and and over and over again, as you can imagine . Yet, as you can see, no shortage of md'rs there showing their show & tell finds. Anyhow, forgive me for rubbing you wrong.

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GKL said:

Welcome from Winnsboro, South Carolina !!!!

Just did a search, here are a few links I found -
(can't say for sure how up to date some of the info might be, but if you find a local detecting club you can ask them)


https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/florida-beaches/florida-treasure-hunt-east-coast-shoreline-treasures.html

http://www.mdhtalk.org/cf/club.cfm?st=FL


http://news.brevardtimes.com/2015/07/video-sharks-close-beach-in-cocoa-beach.html

https://blog.gardencommunitiesfl.com/2017/11/15/best-beaches-treasure-hunting-brevard-county-fl/

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ROBOTCOP13 said:

Welcome from the Florida Treasure coast.
Come down to the Sebastian area and visit the Mel Fisher museum in Sebastian and the McClarty state museum on A1A just south of the Sebastian bridge. Look thru the scrap book on the counter at the McClarty museum. At the Mel Fisher museum pick up a copy of the book "Shipwrecks near Wabasso Beach" by Earnie Richards.
Hit Cocoa Beach for modern drops. There is a club called the Treasure Coast Archaeological society. Good Luck.

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Tom_in_CA said:

Where / when needed. Not when no permission is needed . Ie.: public land, with no specific prohibitions, does not need "permission".

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