12/13/11 Report - Finding & Returning Lost Items

New Named Tropical Storm Franklin.

He's is going out to sea and won't affect us.

One of the neat things about detecting is when you return a lost item to someone who really treasures it. It happens relatively often. And sometimes when at the beach someone will ask you to find something that they just lost. Sometimes the lost item is a valuable piece of jewelry, but sometimes it is something

6/19/11 Report - Mystery Shipwreck & Three Common Metal Detecting Misconceptions

Typical Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.Almost all old shipwrecks are mysteries to some degree, but there is one Treasure Coast shipwreck site that is a bit more of a mystery than most of the others. Although most people that know about it speak of it as if it is a shipwreck, it was once thought that it might not be the site of a shipwreck but rather a camp where treasure was transferred, or

3/14/11 Report - Detecting Tourist Areas and Lead Object

South Florida Weekend Finds.If you are tired of banging your head against the tons of sand we have here on the Treasure Coast looking for 18th Century shipwreck treasures, you might take a Spring Break and hunt some of the big tourist and Spring Break beaches for a while. With the beautiful weather and all the beach goers it is not unusual to come up with some nice gold, and you know the price of

2/10/11 Report - Titanium Finds.

1 Oz. Titanium Bullion Bar.A bar like this can be purchased for a little under $7.00 at current prices.Things fall from the sky all the time. I saw a TV show the other day where a meteor fell in a small town and everyone was running around picking up the pieces and selling them to collectors who came to town to buy the pieces. Some people were getting thousands of dollars for the pieces that they

12/2/10 Report - What a Difference a Day Makes - Sometimes.

Beach South of the Fort Pierce Inlet This Morning.I stopped here yesterday morning and was surprised once again by how many coins you can find on some of the Treasure Coast beaches. There are so many detectorists out there and some of the beaches are detected to death, but other beaches evidently aren't hunted that much.Yesterday I stopped by John Brooks to see what was going on because I got a

11/18 Report - House of Refuge & Shell Pile

House of Refuge.I mentioned the House of Refuge yesterday. The picture above is an older view shown in a vintage postcard. Old postcards can provide good detecting clues. They can show how an area has changed and what was at that location in the past.One of my favorite hunting areas down south was a beach that was once popular, then abandoned and then recently redeveloped. Also notice the rocks

10/17 Report - One Metal Detecting Scan Pattern for Working Rough Water

Silver Candle Holder with Mel Fisher Coa for Sale on Ebay.Laura Stolia presents a photo of a much larger silver candlestick in her book on the Marigalera. It was found in the water south of the Spring of Whitby site. Again, you can get the Strolia book on Amazon.There is also a silver plate now offered on eBay with a Fisher COA. A few days ago I presented a scan pattern for finding and working