2003 January (PDF)

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MAY 2OO3 BRING YOU GOLDEN NUGGETS OF LOVE
OUR HOLIDAY PARTY
Plelse read this first..
51
members
and guests filled the hall and had
January is the lasr month to pay your anlual dues,
wonderful evening of events, food
($20) December is always hectic and we all forget
companionship! Karen Larson, Gail Hoskins
some of the sinrple things. Your dues are the
job

lifeblood of our ciub. If you have not already done
so, won't you please send a check now made out to
the Gold Coast Tt'easure CIub to our treasurer, Gail
Hoskins, 206 Russell Dr., Lake Worth, FL 3346I or
bring it to the ltrn. 9th. meeting, Those members
whose dues are not rec'd. by Feb. 1".

will be dropped

from our rolls and to renew will .require another
initiation fee of $5. Come on, folks, send the check
now!

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HAPPY BIRTIIDAY THIS MONTE TO:
WAYNE STEPHENS

IRV SMITH
JERRY FELTON
f,ON CAPLINGER
MIR.EK GORZKOWSKI
JOSEPH RICHIUSO
HAL ALLEN
ROSE RUBRIGI{T
JAMES PERIflNS
SHEILA PIEGIBOW
GERALDINE FROST
GARY COOK
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IF YOU COME TO A MEETING

AND IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
MONTH YOU WILL GET A GIFT
OF A SILVER QUARTER!

Linda Bennett did a great

as the pariy committ

and many members chipped in for the decorating a
food preparation. The tables all had center pieces
poinsettia plants and candle holders which
given away with free drawing tickets. Everybod
won something! The donation box set up ti
donations to the The Childrens Place and Home Sa
collected a total of $326 to benefit the children.
The installation of the new ofTicers was conduc
and the club welcomed Karen Larson, Presid
Richard Zabriskie, Vice President, Gail Hoskin
Treasurer and Stacey Delucia, Secretary. Ad
positions are Steve Hoskins, photographer, Ji
Warnke, newsletter, Cheryl Petenbrink, librari
Joy StClair, greeter, and Jason Petenbrink, tic
seller.

The annual award for Treasure Hunter of the Y
was held and trophies were presented to: Richa
Zahriskie, first place, Dorothy ilIills, second pla
Cheryt Petenbrink, third place and To
Leiberman, fourth place. A couple of booby pri
were also awarded but the winners pretbr to remai
anonymous!

A birthday silver quarter was given to n'ranci
Colfield as she was the only one present in thei
birthday month. Our annual best finds of the year wil
be held at the February meeting and the details wil
be in the Feb. newsletter.

A helpful hint: On the next 20 checks in your
checkbook write 03 on the date line and then you
won't make a mistake and write 02.

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THE GOLD COAST
TRIIASURE C[UB, INC.
Fouttded in 1975 by Ted Rudd
President
Karen Larson
561_433_0821

KEVTN REtL,LY

561-479_0469
Secretary
Stacey delucia
561€87_2310
Treasurer
Gail Hoskins
561-967_2923
Huntmaster: Linda Bennett
561-791 _7682
Cell phone 5G1 -352-4068
Sales and raffle promoter
Jason Petenbrink
Photographer Steve Hoskins
Librarian Cheryl petenbrink
Greeter Joy StClair.

Full line of new and used detectors and also
scoops, cleaners, tumblers and books . g}4_g71_
61 02. reillystreasuredgold.com
rtqreilly@aol.com
Low prices plus 10% discount to members.
TOM L'EBERMAN
Ready to serve your real estate needs.
561-852-7409
HAL ALLEN
New Garrett 2000 with accessories" $400
561-791 -4572
Dis.count dental plan. Save up to g0%. Singles
$1 1.95. Families $1 9.9S 561-369-3109
Deliverin gonthepromise. comlRseln ick/

Newsletter Jim Warnke
561-732-4567 BFax 561 ^rcZ-Ag77
E-maii. warnke@beltsouth. net
WEB SITE:
www.geocities. com/gcireasu reclu b/index. html

CLUB MAILING ADDRESS:
% Jim Warnke
617 Lakeside Harbor
Boynton Beach, FL 33435

is are $20 January through June and $10 July through
December per family ptus a $5 initiation fee for new
members.

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TREASURER'S REPORT
JANUARY 1, 2003
BANK tsALANCE
$571.54
CASH ON HAND
50.00
TOTAL
$621,U
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Lightweight Tesoro Cortez with meter, used 6
times. $500 561-482-3079
BOB KONNAGAN
Gheenoe boat, 1S' 4, Hi-Sider. 1 10 lb. Minn
Kota 112.3A" shaft. Var. speed with reverse and
maximum. Boat dolly. Like new $1000.
561-414-4690
STEVE HOSKINS
?099 Dodge Neon, 4 dr. full power, a/c, radio,
6100 miles! Great student or senior,s car. Like
new $9OOO. Cannon pCOl0 Copier g4O.
561-967 -2923
MrRFI( coBZKOWSKI
Tersoro Cortez_ Used less than four times.
Reduced to $42S. 561-482-3079
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OID YOU KNOW?
The drawing for the one
pound silver disk will probably
be done at the next meeting!
There are only five chances

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TOM LOTITO
J.W. Fishers Pulse 8X pro water detector. Litfle
used. Cost $1000. Cash sale for $400
561-627-2295

Vice President
Richard Zabriskie

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MEMBERS

Here is a New year
riddie: What is the same
on both ends, has nothing
in the middie and will not
exist in the future?

Left at $5 each!
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.-THE JANUARY MEETII\G

Dr.

THE JANUARY HUNT
It will be at Lake Worth beach at 7.30 AM o
Saturday, Jan. 25rh. Come early and enjoy t

about forgotten areas that perhaps we can hunt in the
future.

beautiful sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean! We wi
meet at the picnic tables ar the top of the hill. Hu
the picnic area or the beach. Don't forget to brin
quarters to fbed the parking meters. (Or find them
the beach) Sulprises? Come and find out!
The hunt in February hasn't been frnalized yet
the officers are now trying to set up a date in
to hunt the Boy Scout camp in Sebastion.

Sue Comertirrd, a local school teacher and an
outstanding member of the Palm Beach County
Historical Societl', will present a slide show on some
of the little knovvn facts about the history of Palm
Beach County. lt'his will be a help for us to learrr

Don't forget to bring things for the "free" table

and

start saving more valuable items to be donated for our
annual Chinese arrction in March. Dues are duel

tom1d ocean irnages
'Ihe lVashington Post

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The images appear slowly on
.he video screerr, like ghosts from the ocean
..1oor The videotape, made by an unmanned

,;ubmarine, shows massive stones in oddly
lymmetrical square and pyramid shapes in
,he deep-sea darkness.
Sonar irnages taken Irom a research ship
2,000 feet above are even more puzzlitg.They
;howthat.the smooth, white stones are laicl out
In a geometric pattern. The images look like
.Lragments of a city, in a piace where uothing
.rrau-made should exist, spanning nearly eight
.quare rniles of a deep-ocean plain off Cuba's
rirestern tip.
'lNhat we have here is a mystery" said
Paul Weinzweig of Advanced Digital Cotrnunications, a Canadian corlpany that is
napping the ocean bottom of Cuba's territorial waters under contract with the governuenr of Fresident Fidel Castro.
"Nature couidnt have built anything so
syrnmetrical," Weinzweig said, running his
linger over sonar printouts aboard his ship,
lied up atawharf in Havanaharbor. 'This isn't
natural, but we don't know what it is."
The company's main mission is to hunt for
shipwreclis filled with gold and jewels, and to
locate potentially lucrative oil and natural gas
reserves in deep water that Cuba does not
have the rneans to explore.
Tieasure hunting has become a growth
industry in recent years as technology has
irnproved. allowing rrore precise exploration
and easier recoyery from deeper ocean sites.
THE YEAR 2OO3 WILL BE THE
30Tfl. ANNIVERSARY oF T}IE
FOTINDING OF OIIR CLIfB
AhIY IDEALS ON HOW WE
SHOIILD CELBRATE? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 7

off Cuba be Atlantis?
Advanced Digital operates trom the Ulises, a
260-foot trawler that was converted to a research vessel for Castro's government by the
late French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.
Since they began exploration three yearq
ago with sophisticated side-scan sonar aud
computerized global-positioning ecluipment,
Weinzweig said they have mapped severai
large oii and gas deposits and about 20 ship
wrecks sitling beneath anciert shipping lanes
where hundreds of old wrecks are believed to
be resting. The most historically important so
far has been the USS Maine, which exploded
and sank in l{avana harbor in 1898, an event
that ignited the Spanish-American War:
I*1972, the ship was raised trom the harborfloor bythe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ard towed out into deeper water fbur miles
from the Cuban shore, where it was scuttled.
Strong currents carried the lVlaine away frorn
the site, and its precise location remained
unknown until Ulises' sonar spotled it two
years ago.
Then, by sheer serendipily, on a summer
tlay in 2AAA, as the Uiises was iowing its sonar
back and forth across the ocean like someone
mowing a lawn, the unexpected rock formations appeared on the sonar readouts. That
startled Wbinzweig and his partner and wife,
Paulina Zelitsky, a Russian-born engineer.
The discovery immediately sparked
speculation aboutAtlantis, the fabled lost city
first described by Plato in 360 BC. Weinzweig
and Zelitsky were careful not to use the A
word and said that more study was needed
before a conclusion could be reached.
The tall tales table will resume at this meeting,
Please bring finds found during the
months of November and December.

A HISTIIRY of METAL DETECTORS

story Richard Howe, photos courtesy FRL

,ulyone lvho has ever used a metal detector

thrilt of filding an o1d coin, a relic, or
nugget of gold, owes a debt of thanks to Dr.

had the
a

rard Fisher and, of all things, a dirigible.

In the 19zo's, Dr. Fisher was working as a
esearch engineer in Los Angeles and obtained
he first patent ever issued on aircraft radio de_
tion finders. LIis work attracted the interest
another farnous scientist, Dr, Albert

nstein. After meeting u,ith Dr. Fisher,
instein enthusiastically and comectly pre_
icted the worlcl wide use of radio detection

ders in the air, on land and at sea.
During the 19gO's Dr. Fisher was hired by the U.S.

Naly
install a radio detection finder aboard the dirigible, th!

SS IVIacon. It was aboard the Macon that Dr. Fisher discov_
red that large metal buildines and mineralized mountain-s
celled out the instruments diion finding capabilities leadg him to the discovery of the

first metal rietector:
Building upon his discovery,
: Fisher founded Fisher Rech Laboratory in r93 1, in a
e behind his home in palo
to, California. He and four emIoyees began producing the
tallascope", a rugged, easy to
metal detector. By todays

vacuum tubes and a few as-

world.
By 1996, sales had increased
the point wher.e the garage was

longer large enough. Fisher

search Laboratory was moved

in palo AIto.

thereafter, Dr. Fisher was

nted a patent for his
etallascope." The first patent
issued for a metal detector.
e "Metallascope: was soon nicknamed the M_Scope,
and as

h, became an accepted standard fbr all types of electronic
detection: geologists located o.", t.uuru.e hunters
nd
utility companies located buried pipes, lum_
-treasure,
mills
located metal inclusions in logs and law enforce_
agencies used

it to locate abandoned

weapons and evi_

ce.

ln

rgsg, just prior to World War II, Fisher moved to
an
larger building in Palo AIto. During World War II and
tIl subsequent Korean conflict the company was called
upon
to contribute its technical competen"e to the war
efTbrt.

With the increasing popularity of the
with Fishers patent
rights expiring, numerous competitors began producing similar equipment. Due to a concentrated fbcus on
technological advancement - and in
particular, by keeping close contact
with countless loyal users to utilize
their vast field experience in the design of new models - Fisher has uraintained its position of solid leatlership.
In 1961, Fisher nroved to
Belmont, California and in 196?, Dr..
Fisher finally retired, having firmly
established his name in the annals of
electronic history. The company continued to groq and in 19?4, \4,ith its
new president, Jim Lewellen, uroved
to downtown Los Banos, Califomia.
During the next eb years, under Jims
dedicated direction, the company
rvouiri grow bv leaps and bounds, producing detecting instruments 1br the
hobby and industrial markets which
continue to set the standard today. In
r99O, Fisher built a spacious, modern
manufacturing plant in the Los Banos
Industrial Park, where the worldt
NI-Scope, and

J

ed components but it soon
ptivated the imagination of the
untry, and within a short time,

&

The dirigible USS Macon.
Below: a reporter tries out the new M-Scope
in Rocl<efeller Centeri Febrr-tary, lgj7 .

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andards, it was an ungainly dee: two large, flat lvooden boxes
ntaining simple copper coils,

a small building

Dr. Gerhard Fisher

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oldest metal detector manufacturer now resides.

Today, Fisher, under the leadership of Roger Cimino,
continues to lead by example. Recently, Fishers detectors
could be found in the hands of the secret service searching
the white house grounds after a shooting or being used by "a
crime scene investigator on the hit television series ,,CSLLooking toward the next zo years, and in celebration of their
Toth anniversary, Fisher has just released the special edition
1270. What else is in store from the first name in metal detec_
torsP The sky is the limit, It just takes a dirigible to get
there.