The worse location giveaway I ever seen occurred on a site called great lakes metal detecting, maybe a few here remember it. As its name implied, it concentrated on the Michigan area, almost all members were from the Detroit area including me. Well this one guy was into scuba detecting and him and a couple mods from the forum found a great spot were they were dredging out old silvers from the late 1800's into 1900's, watches, rings, all kinds of stuff. Just seemed no end to it, they posted pics of finds but of course nothing about location.
The guy had a boat too and went to locations around here I'd never get to without one, including the infamous Gull Island where there is a huge 5,000+ boat party every year. He took me out to some of those places and he told me where they were finding this stuff, I said Ok, mums the word, thanks for the info.
Before I even had a chance to go out there, like days later, he posted a literal essay on exactly where they were finding this stuff, complete with google maps and X marks the location. Unbelievable, since this was years ago and its closed off to detecting now I will tell you, it was Belle Isle in Detroit, an island that has been used for leisure activities since 1850. It has a large beach, and I think most people assumed they were finding the stuff there, but what alot of folks didn't know is the old beach was located a ways away from the present one, and thats where they were finding the stuff. He posted that he was on the track of a huge waterslide that used to be there, said he found the moorings for it, and that when he found the end of it, it would be a pure goldrush !
[He went deeper than anyone else with scuba but there was plenty of wading to do too, which I think is why he felt secure giving away the location, he had little if any competition 10-15 ft down]
I and everyone else that knew the location was flummoxed, could not believe it [I think he reposted it on TN too for good measure] I went there the very next day and there were literally over 20 guys out in the water detecting, and after that, the coast guard came in and closed the whole thing down and permanently banned detecting in that area.
The web site owner was so mad that he publicly threatened to kill him, and the web site folded not long after. Sharing your spots with a few friends is one thing, that is magnanimous - But posting for all the world to see is quite another, I just cannot understand that mindset where people feel compelled to trumpet their finds and thump their chests.
The guy had a boat too and went to locations around here I'd never get to without one, including the infamous Gull Island where there is a huge 5,000+ boat party every year. He took me out to some of those places and he told me where they were finding this stuff, I said Ok, mums the word, thanks for the info.
Before I even had a chance to go out there, like days later, he posted a literal essay on exactly where they were finding this stuff, complete with google maps and X marks the location. Unbelievable, since this was years ago and its closed off to detecting now I will tell you, it was Belle Isle in Detroit, an island that has been used for leisure activities since 1850. It has a large beach, and I think most people assumed they were finding the stuff there, but what alot of folks didn't know is the old beach was located a ways away from the present one, and thats where they were finding the stuff. He posted that he was on the track of a huge waterslide that used to be there, said he found the moorings for it, and that when he found the end of it, it would be a pure goldrush !
[He went deeper than anyone else with scuba but there was plenty of wading to do too, which I think is why he felt secure giving away the location, he had little if any competition 10-15 ft down]
I and everyone else that knew the location was flummoxed, could not believe it [I think he reposted it on TN too for good measure] I went there the very next day and there were literally over 20 guys out in the water detecting, and after that, the coast guard came in and closed the whole thing down and permanently banned detecting in that area.
The web site owner was so mad that he publicly threatened to kill him, and the web site folded not long after. Sharing your spots with a few friends is one thing, that is magnanimous - But posting for all the world to see is quite another, I just cannot understand that mindset where people feel compelled to trumpet their finds and thump their chests.
It almost makes you hope that behavioral sink will apply to homo sapiens as well as rattus norvegicus.
When I first started over ten years ago it was because I was sick and dying of cancer 
