Some stuff from october

Blak bart

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20191003_135049.jpg found a note in a bottle early in oct.....this puts me at 40 something bottles with notes in them !! That's over about 15-20 years. I lost count for awhile at 36. This one was sent from key west. 20191003_135317.jpg 20191003_135455.jpg it made it as far as islamorada before it was picked up by a family. They added there picture to it and through it back. I found it in key largo and will email the original senders when I relaunch the bottle in the middle of the gulf stream on my way across to the bahamas. The original goal was to see how far this bottle would go...so I'll give it a boost in the apex of the gulf stream. 20191003_135522.jpg heres the pic of hector and family who found the bottle first. There was a plastic fishing lure and some other little doodads in there too. 20191003_135534.jpg
20191004_073053.jpg got a nice cowry shell too !! 20191005_223622.jpg found lots of deep greenies and even did good on silver !! 20191018_205825.jpg was averaging a silver dime every hunt for awhile... 20191018_210130.jpg heres a Walker half a couple wheats and another silver dime. 20191018_210722.jpg 20191019_111949.jpg on the spanish treasure I've been busy diving for the treasure salvage boat down in keywest. The problem is the weather can change the conditions in an instant this time of year. I've been taking the equinox down to TH HQ with me so when diving gets canceled I can hunt the beaches inside our lease boxes for spanish evidence. 20191006_205144.jpg here's a fire brick from a spanish galleons oven. A corner brick too !! 20191018_205743.jpg this is a 17th or even 16th century olive jar shard and broken galleon spike from an unknown spanish galleon ?? An encouraging find !! 20191016_191507.jpg 20191016_191439.jpg heres an 18th century olive jar shard from 1733 fleet. I'll often hit multiple spots on my drive home from the treasure boat....that's where I found this piece with green glaze/paste. 20191006_205231.jpg then there was this one ?? Appears to be Dutch, but I'm not sure...I'll leave it with Corey malcom at the atocha museum and see what he thinks the next time I'm treasure diving. 20191020_100531.jpg 20191018_205808.jpg there were plenty of other relics too. A world war 2 hat pin button with 13 stars, bullets, suspender clip...etc etc... nothing like my September of cobb finds but still trying. Nice to finally get down on the bottom and start treasure diving after a full season of magnetometer work !! Not a great time of year to start treasure diving....but....at least were diving when conditions allow !! As for my equinox... dont fool yourself into believing this machine is for anything else than waist deep water !! Took it to 8ft. And it popped after 20 minutes. That's 2 feet less than its rated. I'm scared to take it to 5 feet for any amount of time !! So... its excal for serious water hunting, and get the eq fixed for a light weight beach and land machine. I guess if they called it water resistant no one would have bought it. You can splash it but not to much, you can use it underwater but not to long. That kind of marketing would not sell many machines....so they claim waterproof and do a lot of warranty work. Dont get me wrong I'm a mine lab man....there advertising is a little deceptive though.
All right guys happy hunting..and good luck !!
 

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SD51

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Congrats on some great finds Blak bart! Looks like we are about done for the year up here with the weather turning cold this weekend!
 

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Blak bart

Blak bart

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Thanks SD.....seems like a trip south for some of those big redfish may be in order for you !!
Happy hunting my friend !!
 

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Tesoro SideWinder, CZ20, Whites XLT, Tesoro StingRay II, Whites PI Pro w/950 Dive Coil, Minelab Excalibur II, Minelab EQ 600, Fisher CZ3D, Whites TDI SL, Sov. GT. Minelab GXP-4500
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Congratulations on a nice month of finds, great to have a plan "B" for every situation. Land or Water doesn't matter treasure is found every where, I found a folded One Dollar Bill in the parking lot last night. must have been several people walk right over it and never even knew it was there. If you look you will find! Keep up the great hunts and keep posting photos, Thxs.:thumbsup:
 

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Good stuff BB! I like the fact your dive get canceled you can go play!

:laughing7:Ooo I love my Cheerios too!
 

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Blak bart

Blak bart

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Thanks guys often times I dont post my finds because I'm not sure there very interesting unless there gold or spanish treasure. Thanks for the interest folks and happy hunting !!
 

Silver saint

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Apr 25, 2020
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Are you from key largo? I'm going to be spending a week in key largo in August and wanted to do some detecting
 

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Blak bart

Blak bart

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All Treasure Hunting
Send me a P.M. when your on your way silver saint. If I'm in town I'd be glad to meet up if possible. Who knows what will be going on then with this covid-19 thing.
 

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