This blog has been started by Howard Jones: http://www.themoreilook.blogspot.com/
Howard and his team exclusively use Aquapulse detectors, and managed to find a cannon and cannon balls off the coast of Plymouth. Keep looking back at the blog for updates.
Just imagine if after a mag survey you go to an area with a magnetic anomaly and saw just a flat sea bed.
An Aquapulse or DX200 survey of the bottom pinpoints an object, but it’s buried quite deep. Would you spend time dredging/blowing that area just to find something of little monetary or archaeological value? What if you could see what was there before dredging? What if you could positively identify objects (shapes, colours, markings) buried up to 2.5m in the sea bed without massive disturbance? Well, Aquascan International Ltd is pleased to announce that such a system will soon be available… Watch this space!
Greg Bounds with 22 escudos. Greg and his team have had great success with finds from the 1715 fleet with Aquapulse.
For more images and news from the 1715 fleet, please click here.
From Mike Brown, GA (via Bill Seliger, EO Industries)…
“I wanted to let you know the Aqua Pulse that I bought from you has more than paid for itself this summer! I partnered with Greg Bounds & Gold Hound this year and started diving in June. Gold Hound made the great cannon & coin finds before I made it down again to dive the last week of July. All week long I found artifacts, but no coins at all, not one piece of silver!
Then, on July 31st, 295 years to the day the Fleet went down, I found gold! Twice! The first was a Bogota One Escudo in nice shape. Then a hole later came the grand prize – a BEAUTIFUL Cuzco 1698 2E! It’s now believed to be the best known. What a great day for me & my Aqua Pulse!!”
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The famous Aquapulse system is now available in a professional version for commercial customers. This will include an Aquapulse 15″ kit, but with Underwater headphones, 36″ probe, D Ring and a Waterproof Peli style case. The advantage of this system is the robust carrying and storage capability of the custom case.
Howard Jones, Ray Ives and Chris Bird with an Aquapulse have managed to recover possibly an 18th century cannon. The cannon still has a tampion in the end of the barrel, indicating that it could have been loaded ready for action. More information is in the local newspaper:
Plymouth Herald article 1 Plymouth Herald article 2
