[B][/B]Dangerous Things Found Metal Detecting

[LawrencetheMDer]

After conversing w “Top” from Rio De Janeiro on TreasureNet, I decided to start saving some of my trash found while MDing.



Junk found while metal detecting Florida beaches (in 9Q bucket). From only 3 - 4 outings. I recover some targets even if I know they’re “junk”, just to see what they are. Sometimes I’m surprised with tools or other Keeper items (fishing net - cool).

Imagine multiplying my trash by the number of all you beach MDers…you see where I’m going. That’s a lot of trash. Worse (or better depending on your perspective), a lot of the trash is downright dangerous. In the past few months alone I have come across a rusty razor blade, multiple fishing hooks, jagged pop or beer cans and a saw blade, to name a few. Below are pics, of recently recovered items, including a bottle top with broken glass neck and saw blade. Although weathered, the broken glass neck would still do damage if directly stepped on. The rusty pointed saw blade would do serious damage and require a tetanus shot. Now you know why I always wear shoes or sandals on the beach (hard soled diving boots in water…but they won’t help w the sting rays).



Would like to see what others have found and what the worse is. Next time there is legislation against metal detecting; we should send the law makers all of our recovered garbage and dangerous items...free.

 

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[redcobra8u]

The stakes are from 1 hunt after a storm. The bucket represents about 3 months of work. I've found several open knives in the sand and many broken bottles.

 

[Rawhide]

Large Treble hooks, hate em

 

[BigWaveDave]

I found these two beauties on a beach hunt last year...

 

[CASPER-2]

I get a lot of dangerous objects
https://www.flickr.com/photos/casper-2/6831926173/in/photostream/lightbox/
all kinds of broken glass - which I try to take out - and lots of rusty hooks
I sent a bunch of pics in for fight against politicians trying to stop detecting in my state - mine and others
changed their minds for now - trash pics along with 100s of return stories helped too
so take pics of trash and of dangerous items and of returns and store them away - they may come in handy down the road

 

[ChampFerguson/TN]

After all the glass attached to metal bottlecaps and fish hooks that I have dug up, I will never go barefoot at the beach again. Totally changed my perspective. I worry about all the little kids playing in all that too.

 

[Snap on Man]

Isn't it amazing that from what I have read that they have banned metal detecting on a lot of the beaches. Looks like they would be getting them cleaned for free and save the taxpayer some money.

 

[Ugly J]

When beach goers ask if I had any luck. I'm always proud to show them the rusty sharp tent spike's, shards of aluminum, cell phone batteries, rusty open knives, rusty twist tops,hooks, drug addict needles and so on. I empty my pouch several times a day because of all the junk I pull from the beach. I have a family and I want them to be safe when they are at the beach. A pound of junk removed, gives me several grams of good carma. I too will not go barfoot at the beach.

 

[Sandman]

I direct a small group of volunteers that clean our counties beaches on a regular bases for just this reason. We are the only ones allowed to detect in the swim areas because there is fabric under the sand so we use non pointed flat screened scoops. We usually turn in a gallon bag of harmful trash on cleanup days. We get to keep any money we find and jewelry found is recorded so after so many days the finder gets to keep it. We get a free pass for our work at 7 AM cause we have to leave the water at 10 AM when the beach opens. It' a wasted living with the reward being you saved someone from injury.

 

[Ugly J]

Some dangerous junk from some of my last hunts and my toxic lead collection.

 

[aa battery]

got stuck by a druggy needle once

 

[Top]

Well LawrencetheMDer and everyone else. You are making me feel better about my trash level. I certainly do not find that much of a variety of trash and never anything as dangerous as some of those items. The worst I find here are shredded cans. Maybe a few rusty tent stakes.

I'm looking for a good hunt in the morning (2016-03-14). Lots of protesters on the beach today. People not really 'coming to the beach' so I saw plenty of jewelry maybe someone lost something and I can pirate it. :-)

 

[mnruxpin]

found a few of the triangular blades for a utility knife one time, theres no good reason they should have been in there. someone meant damage

 

[joee5]

Some of the Jersey beaches I've hunted, I have come across needles and I take the time in securing them safely so some child don't poke themselves.

 

[ScubaDetector]

I have found so much dangerous stuff I don't even know where to begin.

Razor blades, broken glass, knives, grenade fuses, guns, i guess a bomb before I knew it was only a practice one.

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

1.5mm super sharp veterinary needle.

 

[NWMP]

I'm not so worried about the knives, glass and needles that I come across, as opposed to some of the greasy characters or groups of them that have eyeballed me. I tend to go to old seedy neighborhoods for older coins, which can be rewarding and or spooky, on any given day.

 

[Normsel]

I found a discarded Walmart checker once...just kidding but I have found knives and plenty of other sharp objects

 

[Sir Gala Clad]

Most dangerous / often found:
metal recepticals with broken shards of glass attached from flourscent and incadescent light bulbs.
screw on bottle caps with broken glass sticking out
Rusty iron sharps: rebar with jagged ends, fish hooks
open cans (usually food) with sharp edges/ can lids.
Satellite sinkers (wires poking out ) - Will poke thru waders shoes/bare feet like punji stakes
Large pieces of can slaw.

Wear shoes, Wear gloves, to keep from getting cut and keep your tetnus shots current!

Most feared: Hypodermic needles (sharps) - usually found visually as most metal detectors cannot detect them.

Most disgusting: Soft Pooh (Dry Sand), Chocklate colored bottom(s)/muck,
contaminated/stagnant water.

Don't get me wrong!

As an Aquarian, my life has been onw with the water: beach combing, fishing, swimming, free and scuba diving, treasure hunting, surfing, and now beach and shallow water metal detecting.

I always respected the beach and understood it's dangerous: badly sun burnt, pulled out to sea by strong rip tides/currents, things with teeth, things with barbs, falling off a cliff, etcera, etecetera.
It is non forgiving, if you do not know and respect it.

But it was not until I took up metal detecting, that I truly understood how badly the beaches are being littered
and destroyed needlessly because of lazyness, apathy, carelessness.

That is beyond non forgiving, beyond any word that I can write, beyond any emotion - no matter how negative.

What is sad, really sad is that it is world wide, and needless.
More needs to be done than posting pictures on the web of the trash found, or being polite.
It is far more than metal detecting which is at stake.

 

[flgliderpilot]

I pulled an 8" razor sharp steak knife out of a volleyball court where toddlers were playing once. Parents were in disbelief.