Florida shipwrecks

[Bruce R]

I was web surfing about shipwrecks because I was thinking of taking up diving for treasure, and I read that you can't take a metal detector with you diving in Florida to look for treasure, what kind of crap is that ?? It's not like you can stay underwater indefinitely, any kind of edge you can come up with should be encouraged.

 

[sphillips]

On the Treasure Coast where there are salvage leases, you cant dive and detect. You can dive and look, but not detect. Here is a link that shows where the leases are:

http://www.mdhtalk.org/articles/beaches/1715-fleet/1715-article.pdf

 

[ARC]

You can dive with a detector except in lease areas.., you just cannot dig / recover / remove anything historical... which obviously would include a historical shipwreck.

Now... with that said... you can detect public beach waters... for... everyone does anyway.

Basically stay out of anything labeled "historical"... "National".

 

[Boatlode]

what kind of crap is that ??

Welcome to our hell.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

You can take a detector in the water, you just can't take it in the water of beaches that are part of treasure leases on the treasure coast. Basically from White City south of Ft Pierce to about a half mile north of Sebastion Inlet.

 

[Red_desert]

You might be able to dive with a salvage crew, working a lease as a sub-contractor.

 

[Bruce R]

You can dive with a detector except in lease areas.., you just cannot dig / recover / remove anything historical... which obviously would include a historical shipwreck.

Now... with that said... you can detect public beach waters... for... everyone does anyway.

Basically stay out of anything labeled "historical"... "National".

If I'm diving and find a lump of coins or any other Spanish treasure you can bet your sweet patoot that it's going home with me.

 

[Red_desert]

If a lease is 15 ft deep on edge and shallow water beach opposite side, more treasure is found on 1/3 distance from shore. Why? Is it because the blowers work better or does that say treasure is closer to the beach? You can't hunt a beach when a boat is working a lease within a certain distance.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Lease owners have found treasure not 10 feet from the shoreline which is why you are not allowed to detect even the shallow waters in lease areas, and under Florida law you must stay 300 feet from dive boats working the lease areas.