My apologies to the beach detecting community

[Larry-in-VT]

Ladies and gentleman ... As a new comer to your hobby I'd like to take a minute and formally apologize for the senseless manner that I've strewn pop tops and bottle caps on various east coast beaches in my 52 years on this earth. I'm in the process of picking them all back up and disposing of them properly - starting on Whalehead Beach in Corolla NC. I hope you'll all forgive me.

Thank you,
Larry-in-VT

 

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[RON (PA)]

I have also thrown pull tabs and pop tops on beaches as well. I thought some old man with a metal detector will find it and throw it away. He'll think he found something when he hears the beep. Now that I have small neices that could get hurt on them and that I now have a metal detector, I throw them away. Although I'm not old, I think it is something when I hear the beep and silently curse the person who throw them away. I have found caches of them, presumably buried by kids as "treasure"

I'll forgive you if you forgive me.

Ron

 

[Larry-in-VT]

Thank you, Ron! Misery loves company - I do forgive you too. I swear I think I remember some of the Corona caps I pulled up this morning from a party we had here eight years ago!

 

[cryptodave]

Thanks for cleaning up my beachs Larry... We figure we don't need to clean them up when tourists come and detect all year and clean up for us.

How are you enjoying the OBX area so far? Maybe I'll be down this weekend and run into you.

 

[Boobydoo]

I like this post! You made me smile.
So many pull tabs, so little time.
Hope you get a ring or two in there also!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[Larry-in-VT]

Thanks for cleaning up my beachs Larry... We figure we don't need to clean them up when tourists come and detect all year and clean up for us.

How are you enjoying the OBX area so far? Maybe I'll be down this weekend and run into you.

We love the Outer Banks! This is our 13th consecutive year vacationing here and we'll be back this time next year - the reservations are already made. We head back north to Vermont Sunday - two weeks sure do fly by when you're doing nothing! I had a good time detecting the first few days last week when there was a lot of wave action keeping the sand off the beach but then the weather pattern changed and the sand piled up on the beach. Yesterday I figured that there was about 3 feet more sand than when we first arrived. Maybe we can hook up for a day next year?

Larry

 

[Dave N Japan]

I say we hang you! Then Burn you....Then dump you in the big surf and let the crabs have you!!!

Ok...Ok... I'm going a little too far!! Just get to picking MISTER!

 

[cryptodave]

Thanks for cleaning up my beachs Larry... We figure we don't need to clean them up when tourists come and detect all year and clean up for us.

How are you enjoying the OBX area so far? Maybe I'll be down this weekend and run into you.

We love the Outer Banks! This is our 13th consecutive year vacationing here and we'll be back this time next year - the reservations are already made. We head back north to Vermont Sunday - two weeks sure do fly by when you're doing nothing! I had a good time detecting the first few days last week when there was a lot of wave action keeping the sand off the beach but then the weather pattern changed and the sand piled up on the beach. Yesterday I figured that there was about 3 feet more sand than when we first arrived. Maybe we can hook up for a day next year?

Larry

Sounds good, keep in touch, and I'll be there next year. Oh yeah, the weather has been kind of brutal, and it did shift the sand alot.

 

[Larry-in-VT]

I say we hang you! Then Burn you....Then dump you in the big surf and let the crabs have you!!!

Ok...Ok... I'm going a little too far!! Just get to picking MISTER!

Ouch!! I was hopin' for something like a severe reprimand or a written warning!! I did get another handful of bottle caps and a pocket full of pull tabs before we left the beach yesterday. We'll be back next year and I'll have the bigger coil for the ACE - or MAYBE a machine more suited to the beach environment?

Later guys,
Larry

 

[neilo]

Larry you have done us all a favour filling the beaches with debris, if the beaches were cleared of it that would mean that all the rings and jewelry would be easily found and people would not be out detecting, digging and exercising for hours on end trying to find the elusive goodies in amongst the junk. Its thanks to people like you that have helped keep us fit, healthy and out in the fresh air, good on you well done
seeya Neilo

 

[peg legged]

Mel Fisher in the beginning use to drive a beach buggy down the Wabbso Beach and throw cut iron nails all along the beach to discourage MD. He did this on purpose. Yod did not.
How do I know this? I was paid to ride with him. That was a long long time ago.
Peg leg

 

[Maverick]

Mel Fisher in the beginning use to drive a beach buggy down the Wabbso Beach and throw cut iron nails all along the beach to discourage MD. He did this on purpose. .
Peg leg

Well, that's an awful thing to do...... Does he think he has the exclusive right to hunt and no one else?

 

[mad4wrecks]

That stroy about Mel is a hard one to believe. They were finding silver coins by the TON (they found so many they had to weigh them rather than count them-read Pieces of Eight by Kip Wagner and LB Taylor) out in the ocean. Thousands of gold coins too. I am not sure Mel was so worried about the few coins (relatively speaking of course) being found on the beaches.

But then again, I have heard more wilder stories than that!

 

[peg legged]

Yes I understand why people might get upset when I talk about Mel Fisher and yes he is gone on another treasure hunt. You must also understand that this was in the early 1960's when they used to blow the ballast rocks apart. This was also the time when anything goes when hunting for treasure. I recall one time diving in the Keys when a fast boat would pass overhead and chum the water with cut fish. This would bring the sharks by the dozens and run you out of the water. This was also the time when everyone along the shore would watch every move you would make. We went so far as to make a false bottom in the boat so we could dive from the inside of the boat and could not be seen from shore. Those were the days. We even carried shotguns-just in case.
I have the greatest respect for Mel Fisher and all the other Treasure Hunters then and now. As far as taking photos-you got to be kidding. Treasure hunting then was like a BLACK OPPS project. No PHOTOS ALLOWED. This was also the time that you could NOT own Gold, silver was o.k. but not gold. Have you ever thought WHY no one every found gold just silver. I was with a Treasure Hunter that use to radio a certain fishing trawler and they would exchange gold for cash. Yes Sir, those were the days.
To be honest I COULD GIVE A S*&# if the State or the Government ever saw a penny from whatever is recovered from the Sea. We put our butts in harms way everytime we would enter the water or walk among the gators and do not forget the HUMANS who sit and wait for someone to find something. There are still Pirates.
Peg Leg

 

[49er]

Your apologies accepted. I too want to confess about my habits in my wild days on Calif. beaches for I was sure that a giant earth quake would have sunk Calif. after I left 25 years ago, but no their it sits. Now with retirement glowing in the horizon I will be traveling through Calif. on my voyage to warmer climate each fall so i too can redeem myself in stopping off at all those beaches I drank too much or did things I should not have and remove my trash or others to make it a better place and hope there is not a big quake while I am there detecting.

 

[HepCat]

Yeah i forgive u Larry,we're all guilty of that.I try to remember that too every time a get another pull tab which is most of what i find on the beach so far besides some clad.
Great story Peg Legged!!You actually dove with Mel??Are you rich now?? 8)

 

[Beachkik]

Yeah..CaptainZossima...Im here in south beach and I can personally atest that we here also have a big problem with couterfit nails and pulltabs,whats a real treasure hunter to do.....!!

good hunting...Al

 

[diggummup]

Ahh yes.Corona Light was the beer of choice on my last outing at Dania Beach.No,they weren't mine.Well,they are now! :P On a side note-Capt.Z-I got a sampling of some Seminole moonshine right out of the Big Cypress Res.last week.It sure smells good.Reminds me of old times when I lived in Ky.Now,if only I still drank....Your welcome to it if your ever in Hollywood.

 

[Mona Lisa]

Hey, Larry, I'm going to be in Corolla (Whalehead Beach) next week cleaning up all your bottle caps. I'm going to send them to you in the mail, so you can be reunited with them and dispose of them properly!

I'm the only one in my group of 14 who's wishing for a big storm.....so I can find something good!

 

[wallycoz]

So, your the rotten...

Just kidding!!! Over the years, I to, have done way too much littering on the beaches. That is why today, I make a concerted effort to remove most all the trash I dig up while at the beach detecting. If I dig it up and its trash, it comes home with me for proper disposal!

We have all done our fair share of littering, maybe we can all do just a little while we are detecting to rectify that.

Wallycoz