Metal detecting along Florida's Treasure Coast has been pretty popular since all those Spanish galleons crashed and sunk along with their gold back when Spanish galleons partook in such activities.
Informational Resources
- The Treasure Beaches Report blog - This is a regularly updated blog that combines the author's experience with submitted stories and related advice.
- Metal Detecting Florida's 1715 East Coast Treasure Wrecks by Lee Wiese - This PDF is a great resource for planning your detection trip and contains ship manifests, beach listings, maps, access points and more.
These two resources, coupled with instructional videos on how to calibrate your detector for wet sand and the surf, are all you need.
My Equipment
Garrett ACE 250 metal detector as pictured here.
Not the worst but definitely not the best.
My Experience in Pictures
The following is my attempt at the Treasure Coast.
One of the first discoveries made. You go out there thinking you're going to get Captain Hook's bounty but instead find a double-hook manatee deathtrap. Kinda looks like jewelery. Valentines is coming up ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Setting the discrimination to eliminate foil and similar will save you from having to dig to China for a bit of scrap metal. When detecting its important to fill any holes made as these beaches are used as a spawning ground by sea turtles.
Detecting in the surf isn't as easy as it seems. That surf, hard to believe it, but it's water. Moving water no less.
The high tide did a number on the beach. That line of seashells is the splash zone. Some detection enthusiasts advise to not bother with the splash zone and instead go for the surf, but that really depends on the quality of your equipment.
Some assbag left an unopened condom wrapper a foot under the sand. Guess what? That shit has metal in it. Fuck you buddy.
The illustrious bounty of a week's worth of detecting. At least I got a rusty Rapala out of it.
Bounty
- 3 x 1 cent coins
- 1 x Rapala lure
- 2 x hooks
- 2 x condoms in wrapping
- 4-5 scrap pieces of metal
- half dozen bottle caps
- 2 x live crabs
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