Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blog.com
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
You probably heard the thunder last night. There was a lot of it on the Treasure Coast.
Tropical storm Florence is over near Africa and most likely headed northwest and far from us.
The area down around Hispaniola is not expected to become a cyclone, but will send us some thunderstorms. On Monday we'll get some higher surf from it - something like three to five feet.
That could cause some scattered cuts, but there is so much sand accumulation now, don't expect to see the older sand.
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| Royal Sabre Metal Detector. |
The Royal Sabre is a metal detector made by Tesoro back some time in the eighties. It was good for working dry sand but not wet salt sand. It had features that you don't see very often.
One feature was called surface blanking, which eliminates really strong signals so you could focus on smaller deeper targets in trashy areas. I used that a just few times.
It also had notch discrimination, which I also found useful at times.
Those features were advanced for a metal detector of that time period.
Overall, performance was good. It was good for small pieces of gold.
I found a number of Revolutionary War buttons and artifacts with on a Caribbean Island.
I found a number of Revolutionary War buttons and artifacts with on a Caribbean Island.
Having a four digit serial number, you might consider it to be a collector's item, but I would still use it in some situations.
I had three different Tesoro metal detectors over the years, but will never purchase another because Tesoro does not honor their advertised lifetime warranty. They declare some detectors obsolete and won't honor the warranty for those detectors.
I also owned a Tesoro Stingray, which is a submersible detector. When I got it, it didn't work right in shallow water. I sent it back and few times, and they didn't fix the problem. Eventually they sent me another detector as a replacement. They said it was Jack's. I tried it and it worked. The trouble is that it had a modification, so when I returned it years later for service, they said the warranty was void because it was modified. The original Stingray was not properly grounded or something.
It was not the best metal detector in the world anyhow, although there were times when I would use it.
The primary reason I bought one or two of my Tesoro detectors was because of the lifetime warranty, but since they do not honor the advertised warranty, I will not buy a Tesoro again.
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After weeks of underwater excavation, a team of researchers and volunteers is inching closer to ruling on whether a wreck recently found near Kelley's Island is in fact the Lake Serpent, a ship known to have sunk in 1829.
If it is the Serpent, as suspected, the site would be the oldest known shipwreck in Lake Erie, a likely candidate for the National Register of Historic Places, and another significant feather in the cap of diver Tom Kowalczk and the Cleveland Underwater Explorers, the nonprofit group that discovered the wreck in 2015, during a scan of the area.
Here is the link for more about that.https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/08/underwater_explorers_research.html
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I was going through some dug Canadian nickels and found some older ones. There are some error nickels that are valuable. It is difficult to know what to look for and the research takes a while. That is one thing I've learned about checking coins for errors or valuable varieties. You have to do a lot to do a lot of research. It isn't as easy as I expected.
Anyone who has detected South Florida very much has probably found a bunch of Canadian coins, and since you can't spend them here, one way you can get something out of them is find some old ones or find some errors.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
