Best machine for 60' underwater

[smokeythecat]

I suppose Excalibur II. Anything else? Its fresh water.

 

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[controlfreq]

Since you're diving, I'd consider geting a PI that way you can go in salt water too. My first underwater detector was a VLF and I eventually had to get a PI for salty stuff. Although it's out of print now, I still like the Infinium LS. It is good on land and water. I only got the ATP cause I wanted to coin shoot parks and such. (My first, the Stingray II hasn't been out in years...) kind of felt a little abandoned by Garrett when they abandoned the Infinium...

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[ARC]

Pulse 8x V.2 if you wanna jump... Excal 2 would be next down on that ladder... both fo fresh or salt.

There are other newer underwater detectors that i have seen around online ... particularly in posts here... but i have no hands on knowledge with them.

 

[Blak bart]

We are using both the excal, and the pulse 8x....both have been working great at 50foot depths. The pulse 8x can look further than you can dig by hand. It can see larger targets buried very deep !!

 

[smokeythecat]

BTW I am not going in the water. It's for my attorney who scuba dives and needs a machine to find a valuable pendant they lost last week in a fresh water lake. Had ya'll fooled for a moment. We do each other favors. Better than way. I've known him for 40 years now. We were both puppies when we first met!

 

[CoinFetcher]

I’d be focused on big lights and eyeballin’ that puppy.

Freshwater… sounds murky… good luck!

 

[smokeythecat]

I was thinking also its going to be DARK down there!

 

[Blak bart]

Excal will work for that mission....if its muddy bottom it will be difficult.

 

[smokeythecat]

My guess its probably a muddy bottom, PLUS they don't know precisely where it was lost.

 

[Carl-NC]

Fisher 1280x or Tesoro TigerShark

 

[smokeythecat]

I think he got the Excal II on order. It is going to be a rough ride to find it.

 

[controlfreq]

Nokia has a small hand held PI, the Pulsedive with interchangeable coils. I have that just not much chance to use it lately so forgot about it. I only have the the small coil. It also has a pinpoint "coil" attachment.

There are some guys on youtube that will come look for lost stuff, presume it depends how valuable it is and how much publicity your friend wants since they film it.

 

[Blak bart]

Lakes have been much more uncomfortable to me, and the few times I've gone down in them I didn't like much. When you touch down in 30 ft. And you try and kneel on the bottom, only to sink to your chest in decaying leaf litter and mud....well....that ain't no fun. What little vis I had was gone in seconds !! After losing all vis and getting vertigo i crashed into the wreckage of a car that had been dumped. After a couple of fish brushing me (large unidentified ones) I was out of there !! Creepiest dives I ever did were in lakes !!

 

[pepperj]

Lakes have been much more uncomfortable to me, and the few times I've gone down in them I didn't like much. When you touch down in 30 ft. And you try and kneel on the bottom, only to sink to your chest in decaying leaf litter and mud....well....that ain't no fun. What little vis I had was gone in seconds !! After losing all vis and getting vertigo i crashed into the wreckage of a car that had been dumped. After a couple of fish brushing me (large unidentified ones) I was out of there !! Creepiest dives I ever did were in lakes !!

In the waters out in front of my home at 12ft it's a challenge as the photos of the wreck showed, murky, leaf litter silt is deep.
Yet I have been in lakes where the bottom is clear as anything at 30+ feet, and that's a weird feeling try to reach the bottom-realizing that wasn't going to happen with the capacity of one's lungs.

I wish the lawyer luck on finding the pendent Smokey-I know from items dropped off the dock (perception glasses) are gone forever as the divers have tried 3 times-zip here.

 

[CaptEsteban]

That is going to be tough to find ! I am not sure how much experience he has as a diver,, but this can be dangerous work, too. It is easy to get too involved in the search, & exceed time limits, run out of air, etc., etc. A dive buddy who monitors everything, is a big PLUS. Dive safely.

 

[smokeythecat]

I think near impossible. That goop at the bottom has to be feet deep.