My name is Michael. On January 29, 2010 I was metal detecting at a beach along the Pacific Ocean in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I was using my Minelab Excalibur 1000, the only detector I use by choice, I really love this machine. My intention is to follow the tide as it goes down and work the lower part of the beach where it is usually covered in ocean water at high tide. Its 8pm and its dark, I have my headlamp on and at times I can see helicopters hovering above me. The helicopters are here for the purpose of the security part of the Vancouver Olympics and many of them have been flying around doing what they got to do. So I’m detecting away and after about an hour I get a faint signal. So I dig a bit and run my coil over the hole and there’s a stronger signal so I keep piling a mound of sand beside the hole I’m digging, I pass my coil over the hole again, it’s pretty deep, and I get no signal. I pass my coil over the mound of dirt and instantly I get a nice loud, clear signal but cannot see what it is. Even though it’s dark, I can see pretty good with the moon light and the clear sky but I turn on my headlamp to dig up the find.