South Florida turtle rescue

Gary Drayton

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Dec 28, 2007
357
663
Fort Lauderdale Florida
🥇 Banner finds
2
Detector(s) used
Minelab Excalibur
Minelab Sovereign GT
Minelab CTX3030
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting

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stevemc

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Feb 12, 2005
2,121
277
Sarasota, FL
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Whites Surfmaster PI Pro and Whites Surfmaster PI, Minelab Excal NY blue sword. 2 White's Dual field pi, Garrett sea hunter pi II (but don't use it for obvious reasons) 5' x 3 1/2' coil underwater Pi
Primary Interest:
Shipwrecks
Nice rescue!
 

cdv1

Hero Member
Jun 29, 2011
766
678
Florida
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Should have known that of all species of sea turtle yours would have been of the Chelonia goldas variety...... Great save Gary!

Cliff
 

Smoogle

Hero Member
Jul 24, 2011
814
261
North Coast NSW.
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Tesoro Sand Shark, Stavr Krepish II Scoop, Plugger Balanced Shaft.
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
classic find - just unique, a cracker.
 

VWandSTUDEBAKER

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Jul 11, 2010
308
31
Gainesville FLorida
Detector(s) used
Whites V3i, Whites BHID, Whites SurfPlus,Whites 5900 Pro Sl, various other detectors, TRX pin pointer
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Cool ring. Looks like he has some BIG red blood shot eyes though. :laughing9:
 

gold nuggets

Bronze Member
Apr 5, 2008
2,444
176
Springfield, Oregon
Detector(s) used
Explorer SE, Pro coil inline probe. Also the Excal II
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Nice save Gary....I was expecting to see
a bejeweled Jade turtle .....Congrats on
the nice gold turtle ring. Gold Nuggets :hello:
 

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Gary Drayton

Gary Drayton

Sr. Member
Dec 28, 2007
357
663
Fort Lauderdale Florida
🥇 Banner finds
2
Detector(s) used
Minelab Excalibur
Minelab Sovereign GT
Minelab CTX3030
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
diggummup said:
Nice recovery Gary! Which machine were you using?

Minelab Excalibur in the upper wet sand, shallow target and probably washed in with the previous high tide.
 

CASPER-2

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Jan 3, 2012
17,158
19,959
NEW ENGLAND
🥇 Banner finds
1
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
6
Detector(s) used
WHITE'S XLT, PI PRO, GARRETT 2500, 3- FISHER CZ21s, JW FISHER 8X
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
cool find Gary - and everybody is saying there's no gold at SOBE
 

diggummup

Gold Member
Jul 15, 2004
17,815
10,120
Somewhere in the woods
Detector(s) used
Whites M6
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Gary Drayton said:
diggummup said:
Nice recovery Gary! Which machine were you using?

Minelab Excalibur in the upper wet sand, shallow target and probably washed in with the previous high tide.
For some reason I knew that! lol I haven't been to the beach lately, maybe this week if I get a day (or morning) off.
 

PI JOE

Full Member
Feb 17, 2011
176
70
Connecticut
Detector(s) used
White's Dual Field White's IDX-PRO Garrett ATPro
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
You're a life savor! :wink:
 

rons1947

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Jul 12, 2007
197
317
Palm Bay,Florida
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1
Detector(s) used
Garrett Ace 250,Minelab Excalibur 2,Tesoro Sand Shark
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
That's a really cute and nice find,Gary.W.T.G.
 

theseeker

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Mar 4, 2009
345
139
Detector(s) used
White's Surf PI Pro Dual Field/Minelab Sovereign Elite/Goldbug II/Goldbug Pro
Got Treasure ? said:
Dont turtles have green eyes ?

Not in Miami they don't.
 

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