Metal detecting beaches at the Outer Banks during the summer

[OBXmetalDet]

This website has this part:

The end result is that the use of metal detectors is prohibited on most North Carolina Recreation areas on the beaches during the summer.

I find it hard to believe that during the summer, nobody does detecting in the Outer Banks during the summer. Is this really true?

If you do it during the evenings in the summer, is that ok?

 

[Nathan W]

I seen where you can detect Nags head and above. Got to be a lot shipwrecks there right off coast. I would guess the hatteras area would be off limits. Probably a lot of artifacts on some of those stretches of the islands further south past Nagshead. "Graveyard of the Atlantic"

 

[OBXmetalDet]

I seen where you can detect Nags head and above. Got to be a lot shipwrecks there right off coast. I would guess the hatteras area would be off limits. Probably a lot of artifacts on some of those stretches of the islands further south past Nagshead. "Graveyard of the Atlantic"

Hatteras is off limits. You can do North of Nags Head but what I'm wondering is if it is really illegal to do it during the summer months.