Beach diggers with a metal detector. How to find gold: search and dig in the ground, on the beach and on the street. Beach Search Equipment
Of course, in addition to searching in the old days, many treasure hunters try their hand at beach search. Although there are many lovers of old-fashioned digging, there is also a special caste of search engines - those who purposefully search for jewelry on the beaches. If you take it even steeper, then there are also such gold diggers who specially go at the end of the beach season not only to the south of Russia, but also to Europe. Needless to say, all this is not in vain and the finds of beach diggers are sometimes very significant.
We will not consider "cool" beach search professionals, since such people work purposefully, they have serious equipment, costs, and, accordingly, serious finds. And what can an ordinary fan of "roaming around" with a metal detector on the beach find?
The first thing that is most often found on the beach is a walker, that is, modern coins. People undress, put their clothes on the sand, and change spills out of their pockets. These are rubles, 2 rubles, kopecks and, of course, metal tens. And if the jubilee dozens were made of bimetal and the signal to them is peculiar, then the modern 10 rubles are so small, they are made of steel and sound accordingly. But it does not matter, you will find a couple of dozen of these coins and understand their signal, in the future you will already be sure that you are digging an iron ten.
In addition to walking, there are a lot of traffic jams, both beer and any other. And if beer caps sound special, after a few pieces you already know that this is a cork, then a vodka cork is a different matter. Of course, they are not so frequent, but sometimes they come across.
Also from the annoying and useless finds on the beach are labels from Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other drinks that are in aluminum cans. Beer, by the way, is also sold in these. And drinking a beer on the beach in the height of summer is our audience's favorite. They litter the beach, so the searchers on the beach do a good deed - they clean the beach from metal debris.
And finally, the very thing for which treasure diggers go to the beach is jewelry, which is lost on the beach in great numbers. It can be silver and gold, various products - chains, rings, bracelets, rings, seals, pendants, earrings and much more. Consider for yourself - for 1 gram of gold in a pawnshop you can get about 1000 rubles, of course gold of standard 585. I found a gold ring - it weighs at least 2 grams, raised a couple of thousand rubles. And if you lifted a 20-gram bracelet out of the sand, you figure out how much you can earn by selling this little thing to a pawnshop. A lot of. Therefore, the search for jewelry on the beach is so popular.
While vacationers are sunbathing and losing their gold, gold diggers with metal detectors are not drowsy and pick up what others have lost. This is their hobby, for someone a job that brings a tangible income. I also heard that some people go to the South, find so much gold there that they have enough money to fully pay for their trip and still have some left. So the search for gold jewelry on the beach is an interesting and profitable activity. sooner or later you will find a gold chain or a ring.
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Outside the window is winter, a meter of snow lies on the ground. And I wanted to remember the warm summer days, when the rays of the sun are reflected in the surface of the water. And on the beach there are crowds of people swimming and sunbathing. And along with this, they lose their money and jewelry! Today we will talk about the beach cop.
Beach search is a rather troublesome business and only patient search engines, the most stubborn of them, can do it. Why? I myself dug several times on the beaches and, apart from hundreds of traffic jams and a few tens of rubles, did not find anything in change. But after all, people are lucky and fans of their craft come across quite worthy finds: silver, gold and precious stones.
For a beach search, absolutely any metal detector will do. Both entry level and professional. But it is worth mentioning the coil. Due to the strong littering of these places, it will be extremely difficult to search with a large coil. Literally everything will ring. Usually small diameter sniper coils are used. But regular mono coils asek 150-250 and graters 305 are also suitable. Also new Go-Find devices from Minelab. Waterproof appliances are especially welcome in the beach dig. After all, in search of gold, you will certainly go into the water.
More finds can be found in the recreation area, where people undressed and lay down, and in shallow water, where people climbed into the water with a running start and jewelry flew off with a whistle. But corks and foil will be everywhere. Not a single beach can do without them, no matter how they clean it. All these items give a stable signal, especially for budget devices.
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What's on the beaches? Numerous corks, tabs from cans, foil. From more or less normal, lost change, keys and cell phones that spilled out of pockets. But the jeweler comes across rarely. But all those who like to wander along the beach with the device are hunting for her. Well, and all sorts of fishing accessories: lost sinkers, hooks and baubles. I even found a whole box with a set of hooks and loaded it!
A shovel is good for digging on non-sandy beaches. Yes, and there are. For example, near village ponds. And on the sand, the faithful fiskar will already be weak. Instead, they use stingy. This is such a bucket with a bunch of holes, which scoops up sand in the place of a probable find. Through the holes, all the sand leaves, but the find remains. Convenient, isn't it?
The Soviet beaches, which are no longer used in our century, will be more interesting. I had to somehow dig on this. There was relatively little trash. And from the finds there are already late Soviets of the 60-80s of the last century. But the decorations did not come across đ„ .
And the most delicious beaches in terms of finds are from tsarist times. Have you seen imperial copper made from sand, clay and silt? She is in such a state as if the coin was dropped yesterday. Indeed, in silt and clay without access to oxygen, even the patina on the coin does not grow.
After digging on several beaches, I concluded for myself that this is absolutely not mine. I have never found so much rubbish anywhere else! I'd rather shovel a hole in the house than go to the beach đ . But, you may be lucky to dig up the long-awaited camelina, lost by bathers. Try it, dig. An attempt is not torture đ .
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During the summer periods, thousands of people tend to go to water bodies in hot weather, swim, sunbathe, relax, and spend time âby the waterâ. At the same time, it is quite natural that people lose something from small items. This is due to several factors: general confusion, wide pockets of shorts, the need to change clothes (and at this moment lose something from the pockets), and of course, the use of alcoholic beverages further increases losses on the beaches.
The most commonly lost items are:
- modern coins;
- keys (for cars and houses);
- lighters;
- jewelry (gold, silver, bijouterie: all kinds of rings, bracelets, chains, pendants);
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All this is found on sea and freshwater beaches with metal detectors!
On the beaches, in addition to vacationers with the aim of sunbathing and swimming, fishermen often do what they love, after which you can find whole collections of spinners, sinkers and other various fishing tackle and devices.
And all this can be easily found with a metal detector on almost any beach or swimming place.
It is worth noting that in addition to useful and interesting finds, there will be other items left and abandoned by careless vacationers on the beach: these are numerous bottle caps, beer "tongues" from cans, cans, foil from chocolates and packs of cigarettes. Unfortunately, without it, nowhere. We advise you not to leave these rubbish items in place, but to put them in a separate bag and take them off the beach: firstly, you will make the beach cleaner and do a noble deed, secondly, it will be easier for you to search on this beach in the future, well, in Thirdly, you can collect a lot of non-ferrous metal and hand it over. Who even collects found plugs.
Which metal detectors are suitable for finding jewelry on the beach?
Almost any modern metal detector is suitable for beach search. After all, all of them now have the two most necessary properties for searching on the beach: discrimination (the ability to determine and weed out iron from non-ferrous metals) and a sealed search coil.
It is important to note that a super-expensive metal detector is not needed for a beach search, because most of the finds are located very shallow and are within the reach of the simplest models.
A few words about tightness. As we noted, almost all modern metal detectors are produced with fully sealed search coils (this is written in the description and instructions for a specific device). And this means that the coil can be lowered into the water to the depth of the cord and rod, so as not to soak the control unit of the metal detector (usually 30-50 cm). Attention! The control units of the metal detector (on conventional land models) are not hermetic, and they must not be lowered into water and splashed!
Thus, it is possible to search for jewelry in the water (near the edge of the shore) by lowering the coil of the device into the water.
In addition to land ground metal detectors, there are specialized underwater metal detectors, designed to search for treasures underwater at considerable depths.
If beach search is the main thing for you, you should think about buying such a device!
They are completely sealed, not afraid of splashes or immersion in water, they include sealed underwater headphones for working underwater, ideal for such searches and are actively used by divers.
Here are examples of several models of such devices:
Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II
Minelab Excalibur
Garrett Infinium LS
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But if you do not want to buy a separate underwater device, but still want to search in the water and not be afraid for your land-based metal detector - there is another option!
You can make your own device underwater, or rather, equip it with a protective box so that the entire detector can be submerged to shallow depths. It is not very difficult and not very expensive to do this: a couple of evenings and a couple of shopping trips and you will have your own âunderwater hunterâ for jewelry. True, you still have to buy special headphones or adapt ordinary inexpensive ones to work in water.
Photo of a modified Garrett Ace 250 for underwater search 
We did not just draw your attention to underwater and sealed devices. The fact is that a lot of jewelry is lost just where the depth does not allow an ordinary metal detector to make finds - a lot of jewelry (and little debris) can be found at a depth of 1-1.5 meters.
Why?!!! It is not far from the coast, in this range many people frolic and in the process lose jewelry and break chains, cool water constricts the vessels of the human body and the rings sometimes just slip off the fingers, at this depth it is almost impossible for the one who has already lost to find what was lost.
Which beaches are the most prolific for decorations?
Where there are more people, there are more losses, and therefore your finds;
Where the public is richer, there the finds are more interesting;
Foreign beaches are of particular interest: there is less garbage, there are many vacationers with great incomes, instead of kopecks and rubles - euros and cents;
Beaches that have existed for a very long time (convenient places for swimming and access to the water) can also bring ancient finds;
Beach Search Equipment
- Metal detector. We have already drawn your attention to the fact that almost all modern detectors are suitable for beach search. Our shop Shop-Detect .Ru can recommend you several models. From universal land models: Garrett Ace 150, Garrett Ace 250, Minelabe X-Terra 305, Whites Coinmaster. From underwater models we recommend: GARRETT Sea Hunter Mark II, Minelab Excalibur, GARRETT Infinium LS
- Scoop (Scoob). WITH special device for convenient digging of finds in the sand. Photo. Such devices can be purchased or made yourself from improvised means. Of course, you can also use an ordinary shovel, but finds that will be located in the water are much more convenient to dig with just such devices.
- Swamp boots. To search in cold weather, when the water temperature is not high, it is better to dress and put on shoes âproperlyâ.
- Wetsuit. For active search in water in any weather. Mandatory when searching with an underwater instrument, because have to stay in the water for a long time.
spub (stingy)
Jewelry Finding Tips
- Sea beaches often expose new finds after a storm. It is always worth checking out an old, already passed beach after another storm or strong waves;
- A lot of coins and other "lost" items can be found in places where there are beach chairs (if any);
- It is worth examining water bodies (or rather their bottom and coastline) that have been drained for cleaning, expansion, or for other reasons;
- Even small and at first glance "without perspective" beaches can bring a lot of finds. For example, compact river beaches near settlements;
- The main loss of jewelry occurs where there is active action on the beach: people frolic at the entrance to the water, play beach volleyball and football;
- Use the opportunity to search during low tide on the sea or the descent of water in a reservoir. There are periods when in freshwater rivers and large reservoirs the water level drops and it is lower than usual (lowering the level before the spring flood, dry summer, etc.). During these periods, you will have the opportunity to conveniently walk with a metal detector through those areas where you could not pass before due to high water levels and new finds will be waiting for you;
- In the summer, it is better to search in the early morning hours (from dawn to 9.00) or on weekdays. At this time, there are few people and no one will bother you, you explore more of the beach area, where people with their things are located during the daytime;
- The most productive day in summer is Monday (morning). Competitors have not yet had time to comb the beach, and fresh lost (over the weekend) decorations and items are waiting for you;
- Use the opportunity to take a metal detector on vacation in warmer climes. You can combine hobbies and relaxation on the sea beaches;
This is why there are so many losses on the beaches (one of the reasons): 
So, we have told you about the basics of beach search. This type of search with a metal detector is now very popular, because no one has canceled the gold rush and excitement from a hobby. In other countries, this search is also very popular, and walking along the coast in Italy or the USA, for example, you will definitely meet people who are passionate about this activity. All that remains is to pick up a metal detector and start collecting gold jewelry.
Summer is a "golden time" for search engines in every sense of the word. It is at this time of the year that vacationers break away from the bottom of their hearts, splashing in the cool water of the nearest river, lake and other reservoirs. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the treasure hunter), they do not always care about the safety of jewelry. Chains, pendants, earrings, even rings they manage to lose on the beach. Of course, the main part of these decorations irretrievably sinks to the bottom for their owners, but this is where the search engines work. , capable of sinking even a meter under water, when searching on the beach, they make it possible to boast of such a catch of jewelry and gold that itâs not at all a pity for the time that could be spent on water procedures.
Beach search is a real salvation for those who have a younger generation in their family. Of course, trusting an expensive and complex device to a child is not very reasonable, but if your unit has already served well and has a fairly light weight - you can take your child with it to enjoy the delights of a warm summer to the fullest. If you "go hunting" alone - so much the better, no one will distract you from an entertaining pastime. You should prepare in advance so that in the chaos of family gatherings you donât forget all the necessary items - the metal detector itself, a bag for finds, a shovel for digging and other useful little things.
Be prepared for the fact that on the beach, in addition to the coveted jewelry, you will also find a bunch of garbage, which, of course, will be a hindrance. Drink tabs, bottle caps, rusty nails, wire - all give false signals. Many searchers, in an attempt to narrow their search as much as possible, often eliminate junk from their search by waving it in front of the searchcoil. This is the difference between the beach search for gold and jewelry from ground work - gold has an average level of conductivity and can be identified as small objects made of aluminum, that is, these very covers and tongues. Therefore, if you want to become the owner of gold trinkets, you will have to tinker well among this metal rubbish.
Searching in the water on one side is easier than searching in the coastal strip. There is less garbage here, and the chance to find something valuable is much higher, because vacationers will look for a ring dropped on the beach with great zeal, and maybe even find it. But diving for a flying bracelet without the help of a metal detector is a hopeless business. The problem of the search engine when searching in the water is not to miss the found trinket from the hands, which happens quite often. To do this, you need a bag for finds, so that it provides maximum comfort when searching, you can cut small holes in it to drain water.
Beach Search Equipment
So, what should you take with you when you go to the beach? Of course, first of all, a metal detector, and underwater or with the ability to dive to a certain depth thanks to a waterproof coil.
Real submariners
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Ground metal detectors with the ability to search on the beach (depth up to 3 meters)
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Scoop (Scoob) for the beach poska
The special scoop for search on the beach Scoop looks like a scoop-basket with numerous holes. In principle, something similar can be built with your own hands. The main thing is to be able to attach a longer handle (handle), because at a depth of more than a meter it is almost impossible to dig a find with a scoop without a handle, unless of course you set yourself the task of staying under water for so long to get into the Guinness Book of Records. We immediately warn you - there is nothing to do with an ordinary shovel under water.
Lost bag
This is a mandatory attribute of a real search engine. Well, think for yourself, where will you put the found brooch or coin? In the water, you will not be able to throw the find into your pocket, shorts are not an option, from there it will quickly slip back into the muddy waters of the reservoir. That's why you need to pay special attention to the bag.
You can also (if possible) use a wetsuit, although this mainly applies to real underwater search, when the possibility of scratching on reefs is real, and in general, when you are in the water for a long time, it is advisable to use appropriate equipment. If you have the idea to wander with a metal detector in the water, when its temperature has already dropped to cold, always use high waders, they will keep you healthy and avoid the trouble of chapped kidneys.
Beach search process
- Finding the beach is pretty easy given the fact that the sand is easy to dig. In principle, it has no differences from the ground one - you drive with a metal detector, it emits a sound of the desired tone or displays the type of find on the identification scale.
- As for the search in the water - there is a difference, because you do not have the ability to accurately determine the place where the signal comes from. To make the search easier, there is one tricky move - at the sound, put your foot next to the coil, then remove the coil and start digging next to the foot with the help of a scoop.
- Don't miss the opportunity to try your hand after a low tide or a storm, as the water brings to the coast jewels lost far beyond the capabilities of your detector. Search right after the weekend, first of all, explore crowded places, especially near stalls with alcoholic drinks and places of sports beach competitions.
If you approach the matter correctly and use all the useful tips, finding jewelry and gold on the beach will certainly reward you with a vengeance! Good luck with your beach search!
Professional treasure hunter, owner of the only treasure hunt office in Russia, Vladimir Poryvaev, told NV about one of the aspects of his unusual profession - "beach search with a metal detector."
- I can't get anything. When I didnât have a metal detector, I still couldnât sit still - I caught crabs, caught up with fish. And then this lesson came, - Vladimir recalls the beginning of his career as a treasure hunter. â Every year, for more than 15 years in a row, I travel to the Crimea during the beach season and search for âbeach goldâ - decorations that people lose when swimming in the sea and sunbathing on the beach.
â Do you really lose so much that you find something every day?
â In our traditions, going to the beach, leave a minimum of clothes and a maximum of jewelry. And on the beach there is little garbage that interferes with the treasure hunt. Basically, these are labels from cans and corks from beer bottles. Of course, sometimes instead of gold you find children's toys, women's hairpins, cutlery and foil from sweets and cigarettes, which you always have to unfold - often the most valuable is wrapped in it. Once I unwrapped the foil, and in it - 50 dollars. The beach and coastal zone is a crowd of people.
And the area is very limited. It makes sense to explore only those places where people sunbathe, and a small coastal area where they swim. The number of finds is distributed approximately like this: 70 percent I find in the water and 30 percent on the beach. My daily catch is up to 10 grams of gold. And not only scrap, but also gold jewelry in excellent condition. And besides gold - modern coins of 200 rubles.
â And where do you put the coins?
- If they lay in salt water for a long time, then they are faded, "eaten by the sea." A person will hardly take them from you. And the machines are accepted without complaint. There are always a lot of vending machines in resort places - you can buy coffee, chocolates, pull out a toy from a slot machine. My daughters leave Crimea with 10-20 soft toys each. But coins for me are pampering.
â What is real?
- Real gold. Well, silver, of course. As for 30 percent of the jewelry found on the beach, they are lost by smart people who know that they will go into the water, there will be a temperature difference of more than 10 degrees. The blood vessels narrow sharply. And the larger, the more massive the ring, the easier it is lost. During water fun, chains are torn, earrings are unfastened, but first of all, of course, rings are instantly lost. Therefore, smart people do not go into the water in gold jewelry. They take them off, put them in a pack of cigarettes or in the back pocket of their shorts, wrap them in a blanket and go for a swim. And when they come out of the sea, they forget about their actions. In Russian traditions, there is also the custom of a plentiful libation on the beach. When the gold is remembered, the kids were already running around the place, or they put on shorts to go for cigarettes, and took them off again, or shook out the sand cover. In general, in the end everything goes to me.
â When you walk along the beach with a metal detector, don't people get excited?
- Of course, when there are people on the beach, it happens that I ask them to move. I donât climb under a deck chair, I try to follow the rules of decency. But basically, of course, it is better to search on the beach after 6-7 pm, when there are still two hours before dark. And later I use a headlamp. Two of my daughters also got hooked on the beach search.
â How old are they?
âFour and a half and eleven and a half. The eldest on land overtakes me easily and naturally. And under water, she uses a âchildishâ way of searching - she either simply collects jewelry from the bottom that lie on the surface, or stands upright and erodes the ground with flippers. If there are coins and decorations, they will jingle, and it remains to collect them from above. But this, of course, is a prank. Basically, my daughter climbs with my device on the sand. And you know, the Lord loves children and drunkards... My best finds were not sober, and she, like a child, is sometimes amazingly lucky, right down to finding rings with diamonds. I once had an interesting case. I'm sitting on the beach and getting ready to dive. I put on a belt with weights, put on fins, I check the instruments. Before you go into the water, you must definitely check the device - you never know, suddenly it flooded and does not work. I bring it to the lead weights - it squeaks. I lower it next to the sand - it squeaks! I scoop up a handful of sand and pull out a huge gold chain with a giant cross on it. I didn't dive at that time. But I dive thanks to the second category of vacationers.
â How do vacationers from the second category lose gold?
- They are not as wise people as the first ones - they go into the water without taking anything off. In the water they dive, somersault, play, drown each other, row vigorously with their hands. As a result, gold remains in the sea, and there is much more of it than in the sand.
â What is the search technology?
â The most favorable coverage for the search engine is sand and small pebbles. To search in the water, it is very important to lie tightly on the bottom so that the body does not drive in a wave. In the water, the finds are distributed approximately like this - at a depth to the waist, there are mainly children's jewelry. The main valuable finds go in a strip at a depth from the "children's" to about one meter 80 centimeters. Further, mostly heavy wedding rings of those who really swim. The width of these strips on different banks can be different, the main thing is the depth.
The coins are arranged differently - most of them are opposite the descent from the embankment to the beach. There are also a lot of coins in the breakwater zone - before leaving, people come to the sea, throw a coin from these places and leave to get ready for the road. In these places, a metal detector is not needed, you can simply tear the ground with your hands and get coins. In one breath of air, I get up to three coins. At a depth of two meters, you work on breathing, no scuba gear can be used, because you have to literally climb under the feet of swimmers.
â And how do swimmers react to this?
âIn the summer, I shave my head and grow a beard, so when I suddenly emerge in a wetsuit and mask, people start screaming in fright. Well, even when I lie motionless at the bottom, people also start screaming that there is a drowned man, or they are trying to pull me ashore by the fins.
â And when the swimmers leave you alone, how is the search going?
â When you work on the breath, the main thing is a very clear localization of the object. For this, I have a white stone in my hand. For example, I started to rake the ground, but I do not have enough air. I leave the stone in place, inhale another breath of air and return to my white stone. This is especially important when the sea is stormy, so as not to be carried to a new place. From equipment I have a mask with diopters (since I wear glasses). In order for me to comfortably spend about 40 minutes underwater, I have a wetsuit with special holes for scuba gear. But this is optional. I am attaching nine kilograms of weight to my belt in order to lie powerfully at the bottom and not âwobbleâ from the wave. I lie down on the bottom and slowly crawl. In front of me is a metal detector the size of two large soap dishes, and I slowly monitor the ground in front of me. Hearing a trill, I rake the ground, find a coin or jewelry there.
â Is it possible to search only in the sea?
- If the search area is not the sea, but ponds, lakes, bathing areas in central Russia, then the efficiency is many times greater there. The sea throws out gold, and gold has been accumulating in ponds and lakes since the 1920s and 1930s. I had cases when in one "dive" lasting 40 minutes I lifted six wedding rings. But this work is more serious and more difficult - there is more silt.
â Do people turn to your office for help in finding lost things?
- With a request to find a loss in the water - about ten times a season. On average, I find about 70 percent of lost things. At the same time, we stipulate that everything that I find apart from this belongs to me. And the lost thing is very clearly described before starting work. For example, once during such work I found five rings, but I didnât find what was lost, it didnât work out. Often right on the beach they approached with requests - look. Found, gave away for free. So I'm not quite a lost person for society ...
Neva time - Elena Kiseleva.