Treasure Hunting

This article really warms my heart and hits close to home for any beach-combers.

Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide - 90 miles in Brevard County, Florida alone - and picked up more than 6 million pounds of trash and debris that were harmful to seabirds and marine mammals.

In Brevard county alone 5,188 bags of trash (about 103,000lbs!) were collected by over 2,000 “Keep Brevard Beautiful” volunteers.

“The debris ranges from the relatively harmless, although annoying and an eyesore, to items that annually result in the death of hundreds of thousands of seabirds and marine mammals caught in abandoned fishing lines and netting.

A third of the items found came from smokers. The volunteers collected and cataloged nearly 2.3 million cigarette butts, filters and cigar tips.

In all, 57 percent of the trash was related to shoreline recreational activities, 33 percent from smoking-related activities, 6.3 percent from fishing or waterway activities, 2 percent from dumping, and less than 1 percent from medical and personal hygiene activities, said the report.”

What the report DOES NOT mention is the hundreds of metal detectorists who scour Florida beaches year-round! But I wanted to take a moment and say “Thank You!” to all of those beach combers who, I know, pick up trash and clean the beaches as they search for lost treasures.

Spring is here and the beaches are packed, so good luck out there!

~ Liz ~

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There’s a new video game being released soon called Halo 3, and there are commercials for it ever 15 minutes. The game has nothing to do with this post except that the commercials made me think about the halo effect and metal detecting.

If you’re new to metal detecting, you may have buried a few coins to test how deep your metal detector would work, and you may have been disappointed. The reason new coins are so difficult to detect is because of the absence of the, “halo effect.” The most basic definition of the halo effect is that the coins become electrically more associated with surrounding earth materials and the molecules of the metal begin to “leak” into the surrounding soil.

Sergei from metaldetectingworld.com has a great description of the Halo Effect and how it relates to constructing a test garden. If you’re just starting out in the world of treasure hunting, make sure you visit his site. His site gives advice and tips for fans of metal detecting.

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On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. The aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

We will be participating in this event. Metal detector enthusiast as a group seem to be very aware of environmental concerns, so this should be a fun event. If you have any ideas for a story, please let us know in the comments.

Here’s a video from the Organization that started it all:

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