When I got started in '65, and on into the mid-to-latter '70s, a lot of search coils were not 'waterproof.' I lived in NW Oregon where it rains .... a lot! There were times when urban Coin Hunting where I encountered puddles in low spots in a park, or like '71-'72 and '73 when I was hard-hunting a lot of renovation work when they put in a freeway, and that meant taking out old houses and tearing up yards, driveways, and also many dirt driveways were present. That made for a lot of low, water-filler areas to work a search coil.

Also, we had two major rivers, the Willamette and Columbia, that offered a lot of freshwater detecting opportunities, and was just over a 2 hour drive to the coastal beach. Back before I started getting around with a cane in '93 I used to do a lot of freshwater beach hunting and periodically visit the coast. My search coils were often being worked in up to ±6"-8" of water ... but I don't swim so I never needed a 'waterproof' detector, just a search coil.

What I don't like are the goofy physical design with it lightly narrowing toward the front half. About a nutty as the tear-drop or egg-shaped coils they made for their Fisher F22 to F44 models. Besides, I still believe a good smaller-size coil or a mid-size coil are capable of handling 95% of the places we usually hunt and do so favorably. Mid-size could be a 7" to 9" round coil or something like a 5X8 or 5X9½ elliptical.

At least it is a new product, and hopefully a hint of something new to come soon in their detector line-up.

Monte

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