Day Started Great. Ended in Disaster!

[ScubaDetector]

Well I decided to take a dive today. Same spot different entrance point. Got out neck deep turned on my detector and went down. Got about 5' further out and got a mid tone. Dug in the clay and got a high tone signal in my hand. Went through the clay and found a silver dime. Hmm, that isn't a mid tone. Put it in my finds bag. Went back over the hole and the mid tone was still there. Kept digging. Got it in my hand. YEA! slightly tarnished men's gold ring. Put it in my finds bag. No more signals. Went a bit further and got another mid tone. Dug for a while and got it. A sinker. Went to put it in my finds bag. Disaster. Nothing in the bag. Put the sinker in and searched for over an hour where I thought I had been. Absolutely no luck.

Well that is the bad news. The good news is since I am the only diver out here I will probably come across them again. FRUSTRATING though. Don't want to find the same targets twice.

Ended up with a wheat, a clad dime, quarter and nickel. And a brass ring.

I gave up after one dive. Losing gold and silver just doesn't sit well with me.

Maybe pictures of the lowly finds in a few. Cold and needing a shower to warm up.

 

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[Gridwalker306]

Oh man that sucks haha! At least you can go back and enjoy finding them again

 

[ScubaDetector]

We have a heading titled Today's Finds. Maybe we need one titled Today's Losses?

 

[billpa]

Well it will be a good find for another day.

 

[trapperart]

They're lost for the second time, you'll find them a second time. Good luck

 

[texjim]

Hate to hear that, i would be bummed too, at least you have a good chance of finding them again.

 

[A2coins]

My gold and silver finds are few and far between I bought a zippered wallet with a pocket inside just to be sure I don't lose my good finds. I know the water is a different animal. You could hire yourself to find it again LOL. I'm sure you will find many more I always love your posts some day I would love to scuba dive in the Keys Ill have a museum next to Mel Fisher I gotta find a Galleon first but just knowing of all the old wrecks out there would be enough to turn me into a {gold fish.} Thanks for the post.. Tommy

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Wow! You're pretty impressive with your finds historically. Did you change find's pouches? By the way, what do you use for a find's pouch? I hope you find it again. However, if you hadn't lost it, you'd be on to the next one = lost opportunity.

 

[testing123]

That stinks big time. I hope you are able to locate it again.

 

[Mzjavert]

Dang, did you have a hole in your pouch?

 

[A2coins]

That reminds me of one of my favorate shows the treasure of the sierra madre.. Well kinda !!!!

 

[ScubaDetector]

No hole in my finds bag. See the bag on my right attached to the BC? That is what I use. I usually keep a sinker in it so the current doesn't take it away. I forgot to put one in. I THOUGHT the finds would keep it down. LOL Nope.



No worries. Easy come easy go. I might find it again after I hit the area for a lot longer. It is in tall weeds and should give a great signal being on top now. Bummed at first but won't be the first or probably the last thing I lose.

 

[Metal Headz]

Damn, I'd be so mad if that happened to me. I'm always paranoid that I'll drop something great after finding it. At least you know there's gold in that water.

 

[releventchair]

Some items just want to be underwater. I have met fish that were welcome to stay in a basket that mysteriously evaporated. Once during a tournament with someone else's fish.
Took a dive once for a stringer in the weeds I dropped with some one else's prize. Remembered to toss my hat on the boat floor first but not my wallet. Graduated to coolers and livewells but like socks in a dryer.....poof! At least one is missing.

A cold skivvies dive under a bridge for a nut off my reel early one spring.

It's like a kind of magnet pulls and objects can not resist the pull.

Good luck recovering your recoveries. Maybe at least one was recovered by some one else once before becoming unrecovered?

 

[TheRingFinder]

Go to theringfinders website

 

[ScubaDetector]

Go to theringfinders website

LOL that will work!! I just have to hire a friend or someone that knows me? Too funny. I know a few folks in Michigan that are signed up with you. I have been thinking although I don't want to give folks competition. That was good! Thanks for the laugh

 

[Goldiver]

Man, that sure stinks! Some water hunters use carabiner hooks to keep their ring finds on. Hope you get lucky and find it again.

Steve

 

[neodetectorist]

Now you know what the owner of the ring felt lol.
So being you were the last that lost it, your return to yourself will be easy.
Please post when you find them again.

 

[CASPER-2]

I always put a large sinker in my pouch - years ago I was in Fla. - I got hit by an unexpected wave and got flipped - everything in my pouch
was lost - there after I put a good piece of lead in bottom

No hole in my finds bag. See the bag on my right attached to the BC? That is what I use. I usually keep a sinker in it so the current doesn't take it away. I forgot to put one in. I THOUGHT the finds would keep it down. LOL Nope.



No worries. Easy come easy go. I might find it again after I hit the area for a lot longer. It is in tall weeds and should give a great signal being on top now. Bummed at first but won't be the first or probably the last thing I lose.

 

[treblehunter]

I've been lucky so far, I too put a good size piece of lead in my bag. I have a small zipper part that I put my rings in. I'm betting you will find it again if you keep hitting that area.