Mitch1FL
Full Member
- Oct 6, 2004
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett GTI1500/AT-Pro/Minelab Excalibur
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hurricane bill had gone by a week earlier and had not produced any major erosion to my local beaches. Now Tropical Storm Danny was passing by. Low tide was at 10am or 10:30 pm. I could not make the morning low tide because of work, so I opted for the evening tide. Its cooler and there are less people on the beach to bother you. I called a fellow club member to join me. There was not much of a low tide that evening. The waves were coming up high and long. Not cutting the beaches, but pulling down the high sand and smoothing them out into one long slope. The closer you got to the water the mushier it got. After about 30 min and any only a few coins to for the hard work of battling the waves, I got a good hit. I stated working on recovering the target. I was really tuff battling the waves. They were crashing into my midsection. With it being 11pm at night, I did not want to get swept out. After 6 scoops into the soft sand I was about to give up. I was now soaking wet. I gave it one last scoop and a wave almost put me on my rear end. I rechecked the target area, no signal. But did I have it in my scoop? Did it sink further down in the soft sand? Or did I just plain loose it in the waves? I drug myself out of the waves and up to a high area on the beach. Dumped out my scoop and checked the pile with my detector. YES, target acquired!! I ran my hand thru the pile searcher for my prize. My fingers hit something large, something large and heavy. Probably a lead sinker I thought. I picked it up. In the half moon light I could see I had a class ring. I placed it in my pouch and continued to hunt. Later that night I got the ring home and cleaned it up a little. Here is what I had……
It was a University or Florida Class Ring from the Class of 1983 with the fraternity logo on the top and a name on the inside. It weighed in at 20 grams. A very nice looking ring with Gators on the sides and a diamond in the fraternity logo.
With in an hour I was able to locate a site of the Beta Theta Pi Chapter at UF and they had an Alumni section. I scrolled down the list of names and there he was. There was an email address listed, but was it current? So I sent off an email. I put the fraternity name in the title so it would get his attention and hopefully not go into his spam or trash folder. I asked in the email…. Have you been to Vero Beach lately? If so, did you ever loose something or leave something behind? If so, please reply to this email. The next day I got a reply.
Yes he replied. “I visit Vero each year. I have lost a few things, sunglasses, class ring.”
I replied with my phone number and told him he should contact me, I might have something of his. He called and described the ring exactly so I knew it was his. He lived over near Tampa. I told him I would mail it to him. He said he would rather drive over and get it. Two days later we met. Here he his getting back the class ring he lost over 2 years ago.
Only a few more days and its 2 weeks of detecting in England.
http://www.MitchKing.us
It was a University or Florida Class Ring from the Class of 1983 with the fraternity logo on the top and a name on the inside. It weighed in at 20 grams. A very nice looking ring with Gators on the sides and a diamond in the fraternity logo.
With in an hour I was able to locate a site of the Beta Theta Pi Chapter at UF and they had an Alumni section. I scrolled down the list of names and there he was. There was an email address listed, but was it current? So I sent off an email. I put the fraternity name in the title so it would get his attention and hopefully not go into his spam or trash folder. I asked in the email…. Have you been to Vero Beach lately? If so, did you ever loose something or leave something behind? If so, please reply to this email. The next day I got a reply.
Yes he replied. “I visit Vero each year. I have lost a few things, sunglasses, class ring.”
I replied with my phone number and told him he should contact me, I might have something of his. He called and described the ring exactly so I knew it was his. He lived over near Tampa. I told him I would mail it to him. He said he would rather drive over and get it. Two days later we met. Here he his getting back the class ring he lost over 2 years ago.
Only a few more days and its 2 weeks of detecting in England.
http://www.MitchKing.us
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