Shipwreck scanning

[Darren in NC]

I am pretty antiquated on my side scanning equipment. I have used a 20 yr old Marine Sonic sidescan, as well as an old Humminbird 1198c si unit. My scanning is usually in 100 feet or less, so I am not really looking for any deep water units. A fish finder should be just fine. Does anyone have any experience with the newer fish finders in the past few years? Recommendations? Pros and cons?

 

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They range in price a whole lot....there are many to look at !!

 

[Red_desert]

Once I went on a fishing boat at Lake Erie. Large boat with a fishing group drifting over water up to 30 foot deep. Graph recording fish finder performed great under those conditions. Sea would really need to be calm I'd think to do any graph recording.

 

[Darren in NC]

This is a scan we got from hunting an old sidewheeler with our Marine Sonic unit. We thought it was called the Vesta, but the state archie told us we may have actually found the Tennessee. They had no idea where it was. I can't find my Humminbird SD card, but my friend Lee Spence found the Georgiana with the Humminbird 1198c. I was just curious if $3000 or below units had any better resolution these days,

 

[Mackaydon]

Darren,
Good to see another 20+ year TNet vet is still posting.
All the best in '25.
Don in SoCal

 

[Darren in NC]

Darren,
Good to see another 20+ year TNet vet is still posting.
All the best in '25.
Don in SoCal

Happy New Year, Don. And we still have the same avatar all these years later. Ha!
I pray all your projects are going well!

 

[Red_desert]

Interesting...

 

[ARC]

Perhaps have a look at the HB- Solix 15 chirp.... or the helix 15 chirp.