

The fact that it's sculpted out of lead is a good sign. I found it a hundred yards offshore, protruding out of the sand.

I don't know, but it feels too heavy for a rock. It seems to be in the expected range of an old wreck. Maybe we should have had Rudi send a magnetometer. Then he lowered the tow fish over the side, leaving just enough cable so that it wouldn't drag on the bottom at slow surveying speed.
Summer turned on the Fisher Pulse 10 detector as Dirk connected the cable from the meter and audio readouts to the tow fish encasing the sensor. A metal detector will read iron besides most other metals, including gold and bronze. Odysseus sailed long before the Iron Age appeared. Run over the site again, but this time from north to south.ĭirk smiled.A magnetometer detects the magnetic field of iron or steel. He had a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach, as if they were being watched. She nodded.I left my probe in the sand with a little orange flag on it.ĭirk scanned the shoreline, still seemingly deserted.
