Metal detecting while on a cruise vacation?

[trhunter1]

Next year my wife and I will celebrate our 30 wedding anniversary and we are thinking about taking a cruise in the Caribbean. I am wondering if anyone has taken their metal detectors on a cruise? My wife and I both enjoy detecting and would love to try our luck on an island. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks

HH, TR

 

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[spartacus53]

I don't see why you can't bring it, after all, it's not a WMD

 

[TerryC]

I took my detector on a 3 day island cruise. It was ok back in '95. I was just uncomfortable when going through the declaration process with Caribbean customs. When he said I would have to split my finds with him.... he wasn't smiling.... I think he meant it! I found a pair of Gargoyle sunglasses and about an inch and a half of gold-plated watch band. And a bunch of pineapples (carribean coins). Best to check first. TTC

 

[austin]

Next year my wife and I will celebrate our 30 wedding anniversary and we are thinking about taking a cruise in the Caribbean. I am wondering if anyone has taken their metal detectors on a cruise? My wife and I both enjoy detecting and would love to try our luck on an island. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks

HH, TR

Might as well do that. Doubt you'll be doing anything too romantic after 30 years...

 

[Mackaydon]

Cruising with your bride of 30 years AND your metal detector sounds like the perfect love triangle.
You may wish to check with your cruise line staff regarding laws and successful MD locations at your various destinations.
Don....

 

[U.K. Brian]

Most places are fine for beach hunting. Diving is different with most islands having some regulations against wreck diving. Modern finds are no problem but there's regulations against taking old items out of each country. If you came up with pirate gold then its better to be honest and declare it. Rewards are paid.

Where you might have problems is with the cruise line. Many now have rules that ban detectors though they are not all ways enforced. What they don't like is machines like my TDI with its lithium ion batteries because as with the airlines there's been explosions/fires in the past. In the Mediterranean the problem is you get grabbed by the police miss your boat which causes trouble for the cruise line as they have to keep track of the number of passengers on board.

Either contact the cruise line and ask or check the small print. Even if they say no you can still take your detector as many have and they will either pay no attention and you can have a days detecting or if there's a jobsworth they will not let you off with your machine or at worse will remove it from your keeping until the end of the cruise when it will be returned to you.

 

[spartacus53]

I took my detector on a 3 day island cruise. It was ok back in '95. I was just uncomfortable when going through the declaration process with Caribbean customs. When he said I would have to split my finds with him.... he wasn't smiling.... I think he meant it! I found a pair of Gargoyle sunglasses and about an inch and a half of gold-plated watch band. And a bunch of pineapples (carribean coins). Best to check first. TTC

I would have gladly loved to have seen that particular customs agent on my way out. I would show him the glasses, snap them in 2 and give him a lens and part of the frame, along with the band and 1/2 of the most probably worthless coins.

Then again, that's just me. I have no problem with authority

 

[AC1955]

Send me a PM. I can put you in touch with someone who goes to the Caribbean 2-3 times per year to detect.

 

[TerryC]

I would have gladly loved to have seen that particular customs agent on my way out. I would show him the glasses, snap them in 2 and give him a lens and part of the frame, along with the band and 1/2 of the most probably worthless coins.

Then again, that's just me. I have no problem with authority

I'll tell you, Spart, what I did with the glasses. I went to the Bahamas. One of the female (Bahamian) tour hostesses told me, with my wife sitting next to me (I was married then) that she would do anything... ANYTHING... for the glasses! OOPS! I just gave them to her.... no charge. They were the 85s anyway. TTC

 

[spartacus53]

Terry, that's exactly why I'm single now ... Opportunity knocks, I answer

 

[Beans]

If it is your first or 10th cruise, leave the detector at home and spend all the time with your wife doing things you don't do at home. If you think you will miss it that much just take a pull tab along with you. If you get the itch just take the pull tab out of your pocket and say "oh yeah" then look at your wife and say "OH YEAH".