Yea salt water seems to a pain for a lot of BH models. I have seen someone use a Sharpshooter with a 4 inch coil and he was having good luck. I have a 3300 and I had to turn down the sensitivity and turn the ground balance to use it in the wet sand. I tested my 3300 vs someone using an old whites and he could pick up signals in wet sand I couldn't even read as iron 1 depth 10 or hear on pinpoint mode.