PaleoCris
Jr. Member
- Apr 8, 2015
- 82
- 492
- Detector(s) used
- Tesoro Tiger Shark, Vibra-Tector 730
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hello folks!
I started lurking on these forums at least 8-10 years ago when I first started treasure hunting, and here I am finally formally introducing myself. Better late than never, I suppose.
I am a scuba diver in North Florida that has focused primarily on fossil hunting for the last 10 years, but have also done quite a bit of jewelry hunting, river hunting (sunglasses, phones, gopros, masks/snorkels, etc), some land detecting in plowed fields where old house sites used to be, a small amount of park detecting, etc. I've also messed around gem/mineral hunting (calcite crystals, quartz, agatized coral), hunting for fulgarites (where lightning struck sand and turned it into glass), etc. I just like finding stuff, and it's all treasure to me.
I do scuba/water detecting with a Tesoro Tiger Shark, and occasionally a small Vibratector which is convenient in it's size for scuba diving, but not terribly useful anywhere there's a lot of iron/trash. The vast majority of my jewelry has been found without a detector, in places where the amount of trash makes detecting impossible. My preferred method is just carefully scanning the bottom where people swim, sometimes with a bright dive light shining to catch a glimmer of gold/silver.
I've recently been using all the GoPros I've found to record videos for sharing with people like me who love this stuff. I'll be doing a lot of scuba detecting coming up soon, and I'd love to post stuff here for you guys to see, or maybe get some times here and there from the pro water jewelry hunters on the board. Here's some of my finds:
A fossilized jaguar canine.
A great white shark tooth.
A big white mastodon tooth.
Agatized coral.
A sabercat tooth (rarer than smilodon, a cat called Xenosmilus).
Some jewelry finds. (Note: none of this was from metal detecting...These were eyeballed in popular swimming holes.)
Just the gold.
And here's a vid of some of the river hunting for sunglasses/gopros (Warning: we act very weird in the first half of the video If you can't have a little fun, what's the point?)
-PaleoCris
I started lurking on these forums at least 8-10 years ago when I first started treasure hunting, and here I am finally formally introducing myself. Better late than never, I suppose.
I am a scuba diver in North Florida that has focused primarily on fossil hunting for the last 10 years, but have also done quite a bit of jewelry hunting, river hunting (sunglasses, phones, gopros, masks/snorkels, etc), some land detecting in plowed fields where old house sites used to be, a small amount of park detecting, etc. I've also messed around gem/mineral hunting (calcite crystals, quartz, agatized coral), hunting for fulgarites (where lightning struck sand and turned it into glass), etc. I just like finding stuff, and it's all treasure to me.
I do scuba/water detecting with a Tesoro Tiger Shark, and occasionally a small Vibratector which is convenient in it's size for scuba diving, but not terribly useful anywhere there's a lot of iron/trash. The vast majority of my jewelry has been found without a detector, in places where the amount of trash makes detecting impossible. My preferred method is just carefully scanning the bottom where people swim, sometimes with a bright dive light shining to catch a glimmer of gold/silver.
I've recently been using all the GoPros I've found to record videos for sharing with people like me who love this stuff. I'll be doing a lot of scuba detecting coming up soon, and I'd love to post stuff here for you guys to see, or maybe get some times here and there from the pro water jewelry hunters on the board. Here's some of my finds:
A fossilized jaguar canine.
A great white shark tooth.
A big white mastodon tooth.
Agatized coral.
A sabercat tooth (rarer than smilodon, a cat called Xenosmilus).
Some jewelry finds. (Note: none of this was from metal detecting...These were eyeballed in popular swimming holes.)
Just the gold.
And here's a vid of some of the river hunting for sunglasses/gopros (Warning: we act very weird in the first half of the video
If you can't have a little fun, what's the point?)-PaleoCris
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