Commercial

......Russia’s “Peter Diving Service” is using Fishers Pulse 8X metal detector for their underwater search operations reports director Vitaly Latartsev.  “Most recently we used the 8X to check an old legend about a tank sunk during WWII in a small river about 100 miles south of Voronezh.  An attempt to locate the tank with a side scan sonar failed because after 56 years all objects lost on the bottom have sunk into the mud. Using a magnetometer and the Pulse 8X simultaneously we got very good readings from one spot.  Soon we will go back with the equipment necessary to remove the meter thick layer of sediment that is covering the target.

.....Paper industry giant Georgia-Pacific purchased two of Fishers Pulse 8X detectors.  “We use them to find tools that sometimes get dropped into our effluent ponds”, says GP’s Herb Baty.  “We’re very pleased with the performance of these detectors!”

 ......Blackledge Diving in Long Beach, CA  used their Pulse 8X detector to locate and track an underwater pipeline reports owner Ron Blackledge.  “The detector worked very well!”

 ......Gray Diving Services in Sydney, Australia is using their Pulse 8X detector with 16 inch coil to locate and track large anchor chains reports project manager Greg Vitnell.  “We have 28 of these 700 foot long chains at the Caltex submarine crude oil facility in Botany Bay.  The chains are connected to two 16 ton anchors which hold the tanker in place while loading.  In the past we dredged the chains clear to allow the diver to follow them.   We wanted to find a way to eliminate the dredging operation because it reduces the holding power of the anchors. With the 8X we can find the chains quickly and easily, without having to  dredge.” 

......Commercial diving company Inshore Divers in Pittsburg, CA recently purchased a second Pulse 8X detector to locate and track pipelines.  “These detectors work  great!”,  says owner Fred Aichele.

......Commercial Diving Service in Juneau, AK purchased Fishers Pulse 8X metal detector for a contract job that involved locating deeply buried anchors and chains. “After we do this job, I’ve got several personal projects I want to use the detector on”, says CDS’s Peter Lind.

 ......Red Dog Scientific Services in Pinegowie, South Africa purchased Fishers Pulse 8X detector for a mining exploration project, says owner Terry Odgers.

......Australian Underwater Services in Queensland has purchased two Fishers Pulse 8X detectors to locate and track underwater pipelines and cables.

......Marine contractor General Offshore is using Fishers Pulse 8X metal detector to locate underwater pipes and cables.  “This detector is really rugged and holds up in our commercial operations.  We haul it all over the world with us”, reports spokesman Tom Mayhew.

......Lyman Richey Corp. based in Waterloo, NE is using their Pulse 8X metal detector, equipped with the optional boat-deployed 18” coil, to locate lost cutter heads and dredge parts.

......Seafloor Surveys Int’l conducted a cable route survey from Japan to the US.  Spokesperson Jennifer Lenaghan reports, “It’s important to know the exact position of active cables so they can be avoided when laying new cables.  Divers used the Pulse 8X detector to determine exactly where the cables were laid off the California coast where many cables converge.”

......Fred Devine Diving and Salvage has purchased a Pulse 8X detector for their underwater search operations.  One of the first jobs for the 8X was locating high-pressure cylinders that were dumped into a lake back in the 20s and 30s says spokesman Marvin Smith.

......New York Submarine Cable Co. is successfully using their Fishers Pulse 8X  detector to locate buried pipes and cables reports diver Mark Sherry.

 ......Coastal Underwater Services in Groveland, MA is using their Pulse 8X detector with optional boat-deployed 8” by 48” coil to locate a variety of targets including “anchors, chains, and a bunch of different construction equipment that somehow manages to fall overboard”, reports owner Mike McDermott. “We don’t baby the detector.  It’s rugged enough to stand up to our everyday operations”, he reports.

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Police and Fire Departments

.....Ben Kailer, is a member of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Dive Team in Youngstown, OH.  Several years ago he bought a Fisher Pulse 8X detector to enjoy his weekend hobby of treasure hunting. Not long after, Ben was asked to assist the team in their search for a weapon in a nearby lake.  He reports, “We were in an area that was thought to be clean of any weapons.  Everyone, including myself, was surprised when I surfaced with three guns. In another case I was called in to search for bullets a murder suspect had thrown into a beaver pond.  I found both live rounds, and shell casings, validating the suspect’s confession.  He was convicted to life in prison.” 
     “My most important recovery with the 8X was made last fall.  Three men in their early 20’s brutally slashed and stabbed a 12 year old girl to death.  Police from two states were involved in this case. The prosecutors were very anxious to locate the murder weapon which had been thrown in a small lake with a soft mud bottom and zero visibility. We searched for two days with no luck.  On the third day we moved our search 30 feet beyond where we were told and I found the knife with the 8X.  The three men are now awaiting trial.”
     “We are an all volunteer team. Recently another member of the team bought a Pulse 8X.  Of all the gear we have, the 8X’s have been the most useful in recovering  evidence.”

......Connecticut State Police have been using Fishers Pulse 8X detectors for years.  Says dive team member Sgt. Justin Kelley, “We rely heavily on these detectors. They’re one of the most important pieces of equipment in our dive locker.  The 8X detectors are extremely durable and stand up to the rough treatment they can get in our recovery operations.  In the winter we do ice diving training in Quebec with the Canadian Navy, and in the summer we dive in all kinds of conditions both in Connecticut, and the surrounding states.  Our detectors accompany us everywhere we dive, and for them it’s just another day at the office”.
     “Recently we assisted the Pennsylvania State Police in searching for a weapon used in a homicide. The suspect threw it off of a bridge outside of Pittsburgh.  Criminals often dispose of their weapons in lakes and rivers thinking they will never be found. We recovered 4 handguns there, including the weapon we were searching for.”

.....Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit is using Fishers Pulse 8X detector for their search and recovery operations reports officer Jeff Worthy. “The detector works great!”

......Missouri State Water Patrol has been using Fishers underwater search equipment for years reports team leader Sgt. Wayne Talburt.  “We have 3 of the Pulse 8X detectors and have located numerous weapons used in murders and assaults.  These detectors are rugged enough for use in our dive operations. We also have the TOV-1 towed video system which helps us with body searches.  Large areas can be covered quickly with the underwater camera.” 

......Dotham Fire Dept. dive team in Dotham, AL are using Fishers Pulse 8X for evidence recovery operations.  “Before we bought our 8X, we borrowed one from a neighboring county to search for a pistol used in a double homicide”, says Lt. Williams.  “I couldn’t believe the stuff we pulled out of the bottom of that lake.  The detector worked so well, we bought our own."

......NY Division of the FBI has successfully located another hand gun using Fishers Pulse 8X underwater metal detector reports special agent Robert Chacon, program coordinator of the FBI Dive Team.  The team has several 8X detectors and Fishers side scan sonar.  “We rely greatly on our detectors and they perform tremendously for us.  They remain our bread and butter for underwater search and recovery operations.  We used them on a job in April and located a gun buried in about 10 inches of mud.”  The case agent Chacon referred to involved the murder of three people in Lake Charles, Louisiana.  FBI divers recovered the automatic weapon the suspect threw into the Calcasieu River near the I-10 bridge.

......Clearwater Fire Dept. dive team in Clearwater, FL recently purchased a Pulse 8X.  Chief Jeff Patterson reports, “We had our first chance to use the 8X last week.  Our team searched a 65’ by 80’ area and found a 38 caliber revolver, a rifle clip, and several war medals dating as far back as 1908. The detector works great and held up to all our expectations. Thank you again for a wonderful product!”

......Placer County Sheriffs Dept. in Tahoe City, CA are using Fishers Pulse 8X metal detector and TOV-1 towed video system for their search operations.  “We use the 8X to search for weapons in our evidence recovery operations”, says Deputy Charles Baumgardner. “The TOV-1 has really helped our underwater search operations.  We’re able to cover more area, faster, using fewer divers. It’s done a great job for us.”

......Broward County Sheriffs Office Dive Rescue Team routinely use their Pulse 8X for search and recovery operations reports the department’s Deputy Ferguson.

......Sgt. Ed Young of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office reports, “We took our new Pulse 8X out for the first time to search for a gun used in a homicide.  The weapon was allegedly thrown into a pond at Wa-Floy Mountain Retreat.  The visibility in this pond was zero.  The area had been previously searched with another metal detector, but nothing turned up. This time, using the 8X, we found a variety of metal objects including motel keys and kitchen utensils, but still no gun. We did however, find something that was unexpected, a 1986 Oldsmobile with a body inside.”  The deceased, reported missing 15 years earlier, had vanished without a trace.  Foul play was not suspected.   Police believe that the 66 year old woman, who was a diabetic, missed a turn on the road between the motel office and her room, and drove into the pond.  A thorough search of the area was carried out at the time, but there were no obvious signs a vehicle had left the roadway.  “Although we didn’t find the gun, it sure proved to be an interesting first day with our Pulse 8X. The detector worked better than expected.  We’re confident in the capabilities of our new detector and our search team.  We believe the informant was either lying or mistaken about the location of the weapon.”

......Japan’s National Police Office purchased a large quantity of Fishers Pulse 8X detectors to inspect land, beach and underwater sites before representatives from 8 nations met in Okinawa for a summit.  NPO has been using Pulse 8X detectors for several years to locate a variety of weapons used in the commission of crimes, from the country’s lakes, rivers and sea.

......West Metro Fire Rescue in Lakewood, CO is using their Pulse 8X for search and recovery ops. “The 8X is easy to use and has helped us reduce the amount of time we spend searching for objects”, says dive team member Kevin Schmidt.

.......Durham County Sheriffs Office in Durham, NC has two Fishers Pulse 8X detectors that they use for weapons recovery reports Lt. Eric Scott. “I bought a Pulse 8X for my own personal use a number of years ago.  I let the department borrow it whenever we had a search and recovery operation. After awhile the department was using it more than I was. At that point I suggested they consider buying their own, which they did.  It worked out so well, a short time later they bought a second one.”
     Lt. Scott went on to say “We’ve got a lot of use out of these detectors. They’ve been particularly helpful in locating weapons along the banks of our rivers.  Many of the rivers have rocks placed along the banks to control erosion.  When a handgun is thrown in, it can become lodged between rocks.  It’s very time consuming checking between them by hand.  With the metal detector we can quickly scan over them.  If there’s a weapon in there, the 8X will sound off.  We’ve also used our detectors for a number of land searches and found they work just as well on land as they do in the water.”

......Piqua Fire Dept. in Ohio has purchased the Pulse 8X detector. “Our department does recovery for work for both the police and fire units in Piqua. The 8X is doing a great job for us!”, reports diver Jeff Meckstroth.

......New Mexico State Police Dive Team are using their two Pulse 8X detectors to recover a variety of weapons according to police diver Mike Waring.  “We’ve located pistols, shotguns and rifles with our 8Xs. We have a lot of confidence in the detectors and our ability to use them effectively. If we’re looking for a weapon, we know the 8X will find it.”

......”I like using the Pulse 8X better than the high tech land detector we have because it’s so reliable and easy to operate”, says Sgt. Dave Ball with the Missoula County Sheriffs Dept. in Missoula, MT.  “We’ve had the 8X since 93’ and it’s working great for us.”

......Pierce County Sheriff Dept. in Puyallup, WA is using their Pulse 8X to search for weapons used in the commision of violent crimes, reports Detective Scott Mielcarek.

......Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Forensic Identification Section in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada has purchased the Pulse 8X for their evidence recovery operations.

......The diving squad of the Czech Republic Police have used their Pulse 8X for recovery of “pistols, a knife, parts of cars, and other metal items connected with criminal offenses”, reports a department  spokesman.

......West Warwick Police Dept. in West Warwick, Rhode Island has purchased the Pulse 8X detector for their U/W search ops.” The detector is easy to use and the single underwater earphone works well with our full face masks”, says officer Don Archibald.

......Pinellas County Sheriffs Office in Largo, FL has purchased two Pulse 8X detectors. “The detectors have been used on several dive call outs”, reports Cpl. Brad Millican. “We’ve used the 8Xs to locate weapons and jewelry.  We’re very impressed with them!”

......Suffolk County Police Dept. in Great River, NY has purchased two Pulse 8X detectors for their search and recovery ops. Suffolk County Dive Team officers were involved in TWA flight 800 recovery ops.

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Government and Universities

......Scientists at Canada’s Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans at the Maurice Lamontagne Institute in Quebec are using Fishers Pulse 8X metal detector to locate tagged shellfish.  Reports marine biologist Francois Hazel, “I am using the 8X to locate marked clams on the seashore at low tide. This is an exploratory project to develop tools that may one day assist communities in monitoring their coastal zones.”

......US Geological Survey’s Columbia River Research Lab in Cook, WA has purchased a Pulse 8X detector reports spokesman Noah Adams.  “We use the 8X for a variety of projects.  One of it’s  jobs  is to locate lost radio transmitters and temperature sensors.”

......Florida Atlantic University’s Dept. of Ocean Engineering is using the Pulse 8X detector  reports scientist and diver Bob Franks. “We routinely get contracts with the navy to do acoustic research.  We look at metal objects on and under the seabed.  The 8X is very helpful in recovering the targets as projects are completed.”

......Florida State University has purchased two of Fishers Pulse 8X metal detectors.  The detectors will be used in their underwater archaeology program and also to assist local law enforcement in evidence recovery operations says spokesman Jeffrey Lane.

......Indiana University’s Prof. Charles Beeker  is using a Pulse 8X detector in a wreck recovery project in the Dominican Republic as part of the school’s archaeology program.

......CIE Maritime Archeologie et Prospection in Nogent sur Marne, France purchased seven of Fishers Pulse 8X hand-held metal detectors.  “One detector was used to locate artifacts on an archeological project in Menorca, Spain”, says director Jean-Louis Pereye. “The other six detectors will be used by a military unit to search for mines and unexploded ordnance.” 

......The Dept. of Zoology at Ireland’s University College Dublin is using Fishers Pulse 8X detector in a shellfish reseeding project.  The detector will be used to detect metal tags attached to the shellfish.

......Researchers with the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) are using Fishers Pulse 8X metal detectors to assist in the Trochus Reseeding Project. Trochus is a conical shaped marine gastropod (snail) that habitats shallow tropical reefs.  It’s shell, which can measure over 5 inches, is used to make jewelry and buttons.  The current global demand for trochus shell is 7,000 tons annually, worth about 50 - $60 million.  Like many of today’s marine resources, the trochus fishery is under stress.  Scientists are investigating the feasibility of trochus reseeding and aquaculture projects.  Researcher Dr. Tasman Crowe of ACIAR is involved in the stock enhancement project and wrote a paper on the subject for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.  He discusses the problem of recapturing tagged animals in a complex habitat.  The trochus often move into and under the live coral or coral ruble and can not be found by visual searches.  In his paper he writes, “To solve this problem we used underwater metal detectors to locate metal tags fixed to the animals.  The metal detector used was a Pulse 8X supplied by JW Fishers Mfg.”  He goes on to extol the virtues of the detector for this type of project.  He adds, “We found the smallest tag that could fit on the juvenile trochus and still be reliably detected was a 0.3g piece of aluminum. Tags were detectable within a range of 8 cm of the coil regardless of the intervening medium (e.g. air, water, rock, sand, or coral) and could be pinpointed to within 1-2 cm.”
     The report went on to say that effectiveness of the system was tested in a series of pilot trials and the results indicated the tagging system was an effective method of finding Trochus.  “Over 85% of a known number of juveniles were consistently recaptured.”  For more info visit www.spc.org.nc.

......U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in Edison, NJ is using a Pulse 8X detector to search sites for suspected illegal dumping of hazardous waste according spokesman Neal Norrell.

...... The U.S. Forestry Services Lab in Juneau, Alaska has purchased Fishers Pulse 8X detector for site survey work.  “We use the 8X to locate metal survey pins we drive into stream beds”, says spokesman Mike Dilger.  “The detector is doing a great job for us!”

......U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Division in Boise, Idaho has purchased another Fisher Pulse 8X metal detector to locate chains buried in river banks.

......U.S. Dept. of Interior Biological Resources Division at the Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor, MI is using the Pulse 8X detector with optional  8” x 48” coil for survey work.  “We attached the 8X to the front of an  ROV system so the camera was viewing the detector’s meter readout.  The ROV was towed along the bottom of the lake with the oval coil trailing behind on its four skis. We towed the system about 13 to 14 kilometers over a period of 3 to 4 days”, said operations coordinator Greg Kennedy. “I was impressed with the way the coil towed, it tracked beautifully behind the ROV.  We located several new sites which warrant further investigation.”

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Treasure Hunters

......Virgin Islands treasure hunter Barry Shipman, known throughout the islands for his ability to locate lost jewelry, was recently called upon to perform an unusual search. He was asked to find a ring - he had already found once before. Robert Armstrong, chief engineer at the Buccaneer, one of the island’s premier hotels, lost a ring that had significant sentimental and monetary value. Mr. Armstong wrote this account.
     When I got married my wife bought me a platinum wedding band that loosely fit my finger. I wanted it loose because I have a fear of getting it caught on something when I’m working. One day when tossing cans of cold soda from a cooler to friends on the beach, the ring slipped off and landed in the sand. After several hours of frantic searching I decided we were never going to find the it without getting technology involved.
     Referred by friends who knew of his success finding lost items, Barry and his Pulse 8X metal detector appeared on the scene. Before long he was holding my ring in his hand. Capping off this feat of seeming magic with a refusal to accept any reward, I just couldn’t thank him enough.
     Well the years went by and before I knew it I had three young children and had traded in my racing sailboat for a family deck boat. After a recent outing, I was washing down the boat and the ring slipped off my finger descending to the silty bottom of the marina. I had lost my wedding band again!
     A co-worker who is a member of the local dive club put out the word that I needed help. Hearing this, one of the members called a guy he knew "that could find anything". Yes, Barry Shipman was on the case! Working in 8 feet of water with his Fisher 8X he moved carefully through the sand, silt, weeds, and holes. Finally after 40 minutes of hunting - success!
     On hearing this story my friends all joke, "The third times a charm. You better hope Barry sticks around!"

......Norwalk, CT treasure hunter Bob Onkey reports, “I’m having excellent success with my 8X detector equipped with the probe coil. I’m working an area that has about a foot of mud covering a clay bottom. Pushing the probe down into the soft, muddy bottom I get beyond the detection range of regular coils.  I’ve found lots of coins from the 1920’s and a beautiful 10K gold marine battalion ring. "

......Jim McClure uses his Pulse 8X to search the beaches and wreck sites of the Yucatan coast of Mexico. “I’ve had more fun hunting with my detector.  It has given me many hours of pleasure.”

......Pedro Martinez uses his Pulse 8X  to hunt for artifacts in the desert around his Somerton, Arizona home.  “The 8X works great, it finds deeply buried targets without giving false readings to the highly mineralized desert soil”, says Pedro.  “I’ve found many interesting things hunting the desert.  Some of my recent finds include silver dollars, one dated 1880, a military belt buckle dating to 1905, and an antique watch fob circa early 1900s.”

......Well it wasn’t exactly treasure, but diver Mike Borecky made a nice find with his Pulse 8X when he recovered several expensive shotguns that were buried in 2 feet of mud when 3 duck hunters overturned their boat.

......John Duffy of Sacremento, CA has had lots of fun searching for things with his Pulse 8X metal detector.  He reports, “I’ve hunted coastal beaches from Fort Bragg to San Diego, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and throughout California.  To date I have recovered over 600 coins and many other neat treasures including knives, forks, spoons, lighters, nail clippers, fishing lures, copper and brass tubing, sun glasses, watches, ear rings, bracelets, hair pins, shell casings, salmon cheek tags (used by fishery samplers to identify dead salmon that were tagged during spawning surveys), toy cars and other metal toys, keys, and many rings. The rings are of various sizes and materials from kid’s rings to brass and silver toe rings, several nice silver rings, and a beautiful man’s gold, sapphire, and diamond ring.  The value of my finds easily exceeds the cost of my Pulse 8X.”
     John went on to say, “Thank you for making such a great detector, and thanks for the fast and courteous service you provided when I recently returned my 8X for some minor repair work.”  

......Ben Marich of Marex Oceanographic Services reports, "We’ve been working the wreck of the The City of Vera  Cruz off Cape Canaveral, Florida, Hundreds of artifacts have been recovered using your Pulse 8X detectors, My daughter Jody accompanied me on one of our trips. She had just turned twelve and gotten her C-card. She found her first treasure on this wreck, a beautiful gold locket. Now she’s been bitten by the treasure bug like her dad." Nice find Jody!

......“I have long awaited the day that I would  own a Pulse 8X and that day has finally arrived.  I am the type of diver that really likes adventure and exploring.  I often find coins and other lost objects on my dives.   After researching all of the underwater detectors out there I found yours was clearly the cream of the crop.  I’m looking forward to years of successful treasure hunting with my 8X. Thanks again for such a superior product.” Ferron Martineau, Rexburg, Idaho.

......International marine services company Stolt Comex has just purchased their third Pulse 8X detector reports Fishers UK distributor Bryan Dillon.  “They love the 8X detectors.  These machines are ruggedly built for commercial operations and have plenty of power to locate those deeply buried targets.”

......Paper industry giant Georgia-Pacific purchased two of Fishers Pulse 8X detectors.  “We use them to find tools that sometimes get dropped into our effluent ponds”, says GP’s Herb Baty.  “We’re very pleased with the performance of these detectors!”

......Blackledge Diving in Long Beach, CA  used their Pulse 8X detector to locate and track an underwater pipeline reports owner Ron Blackledge.  “The detector worked very well!”

......Gray Diving Services in Sydney, Australia is using their Pulse 8X detector with 16 inch coil to locate and track large anchor chains reports project manager Greg Vitnell.  “We have 28 of these 700 foot long chains at the Caltex submarine crude oil facility in Botany Bay.  The chains are connected to two 16 ton anchors which hold the tanker in place while loading.  In the past we dredged the chains clear to allow the diver to follow them.   We wanted to find a way to eliminate the dredging operation because it reduces the holding power of the anchors. With the 8X we can find the chains quickly and easily, without having to  dredge.” 

......Commercial diving company Inshore Divers in Pittsburg, CA recently purchased a second Pulse 8X detector to locate and track pipelines.  “These detectors work  great!”,  says owner Fred Aichele. 

......Commercial Diving Service in Juneau, AK purchased Fishers Pulse 8X metal detector for a contract job that involved locating deeply buried anchors and chains. “After we do this job, I’ve got several personal projects I want to use the detector on”, says CDS’s Peter Lind.

......Red Dog Scientific Services in Pinegowie, South Africa purchased Fishers Pulse 8X detector for a mining exploration project, says owner Terry Odgers.

......Peter Diving Service in Voronezh, Russia has purchased the Pulse 8X.  According to diver Vitaly Latartsev, “The main use for the metal detector is to locate and follow underwater pipes and cables”.

......"I love my Pulse 8X!", says Paul Gelsinger.  “I used it extensively in the Philippines teaching an underwater archaeology course.  We worked a number of wreck sites and located all kinds of things including portholes, ships wheels, anchors, gauges, guns, and helmets.  I’ve had my 8X for over 10 years and it still works great!”

......Richard Carney has been using his Pulse 8X to search Maine beaches and old swimming holes for years.  He reports, “Recently I had a very successful trip up to Moosehead Lake.  The 8X located 42 gold rings, over 2000 coins and a beautiful sterling silver religious medal!”

.....One man’s trash is another man’s “treasure”?
     Many people enjoy visiting the beautiful beaches and dive sites of Puerto Rico.  Unfortunately not everyone takes their trash with them when they leave. One man has made it his mission in life to keep the beaches and underwater environment in this lovely Caribbean island free of refuse.  Harry Hauck is that man. 
     Equipped with his Pulse 8X detector, Harry scours the beaches and underwater sites.  It’s not rings and coins he’s looking for, it’s trash.  Harry and his 8X locate beer and soft drink cans, food containers, wire, chains, batteries, pipe, pieces of old signs, spark plugs, and a variety of other junk.  In addition to finding and removing all of this metallic mess, he also picks up paper, plastic, glass, Styrofoam, rubber, and any other stuff that isn’t part of the natural landscape.
     Does Harry do this for fame and fortune?  The answer is no (there isn’t even a deposit on containers in PR). However, the tenacity of this trash terminator has brought some recognition.  In 1992  he received the Environmental Citizen of the Year Award from the Puerto Rico government and in ‘94 the NAUI Environmental Enrichment Award.
     Harry says he’s been using Fishers 8X detectors for years.  “I bought four of them for the U.S. Army when I was their scuba instructor.  These machines work great, and they’re practically bulletproof!”
     This environmental superhero deserves accolades for his efforts.  When his 8X was recently returned to the factory for some service, it was taken care of at no charge. Keep up the good work Harry!

......”In 1982 you sent me a bunch of brochures. I had always dreamt of owning a Fishers detector.  Today I proudly own a Pulse 8X.  On a recent trip to St. Maarten I didn’t find any gold doubloons, just some coins at the beach, but I had a lot of fun doing it!  The detector worked fine.  Mr. Fisher, thank you for manufacturing such a great detector. My next dream is to purchase one of your magnetometers.”  Ruben Preti, Henderson, Nevada.

......”We have been extremely pleased with your detectors.  We have had several of them on various jobs over the years, as well as other brands, and the 8X has proved the most reliable and durable.  It never fails to produce! Enclosed are a few pages from recent auctions we have had.  Many of the coins and artifacts shown were found with your detectors.” Joe Fiorentino, Bangor, Pennsylvania.

......”I have wanted to write this letter for a long time and finally found the time to sit down and do it.  My  Pulse 8X is even nicer than I hoped it would be.  It is exquisitely sensitive and extremely well made.  Not only am I impressed with the performance, but also with the choice of materials, engineering, sturdiness, and attention to detail in construction.  Equally impressive is the way I have been treated by  the staff at JW Fishers.” Rick Weber, Bridgeport, West Virginia.

......Australian Underwater Services in Queensland has purchased two Fishers Pulse 8X detectors to locate and track underwater pipelines and cables.

......Marine contractor General Offshore is using Fishers Pulse 8X metal detector to locate underwater pipes and cables.  “This detector is really rugged and holds up in our commercial operations.  We haul it all over the world with us”, reports spokesman Tom Mayhew.

......Lyman Richey Corp. based in Waterloo, NE is using their Pulse 8X metal detector, equipped with the optional boat-deployed 18” coil, to locate lost cutter heads and dredge parts.

......Seafloor Surveys Int’l conducted a cable route survey from Japan to the US.  Spokesperson Jennifer Lenaghan reports, “It’s important to know the exact position of active cables so they can be avoided when laying new cables.  Divers used the Pulse 8X detector to determine exactly where the cables were laid off the California coast where many cables converge.”

......Fred Devine Diving and Salvage has purchased a Pulse 8X detector for their underwater search operations.  One of the first jobs for the 8X was locating high-pressure cylinders that were dumped into a lake back in the 20s and 30s says spokesman Marvin Smith.

......Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL has purchased Fishers Pulse 6X and 8X metal detectors.  “The detectors will be used to locate  jewelry lost by visitors in Disney’s water parks.  The jewelry will be returned to the rightful owner”, reports spokesman Wayne Mitchell.

......Costello Marine Construction in Greenport, NY purchased Fishers diver-held metal detector, Pulse 8X to locate anchors, pipelines and lost propellers? Chris call for details (516) 477-1199, John.

......New York Submarine Cable Co. is successfully using their Fishers Pulse 8X  detector to locate buried pipes and cables reports diver Mark Sherry.

......Coastal Underwater Services in Groveland, MA is using their Pulse 8X detector with optional boat-deployed 8” by 48” coil to locate a variety of targets including “anchors, chains, and a bunch of different construction equipment that somehow manages to fall overboard”, reports owner Mike McDermott. “We don’t baby the detector.  It’s rugged enough to stand up to our everyday operations”, he reports.

......Virgin Island treasure hunter Barry Shipman continues to bring up the booty with his Pulse 8X.   Barry writes, “On April 8, the day before Good Friday, I had a fantastic day snorkeling at St. Croix’s Cormorant Beach.  Within 3 1/2 hours I found six silver coins, a .645 Carat diamond ring, an antique 18 carat gold Omega watch, and a 31 grain gold nugget ring”.  Now that’s what I call a good day at the beach!

......Al Hartman of Tallahassee, FL reports finding a number of rare silver coins on recent dive with his Pulse 8X.  One of the coins was appraised at over $1,200. 

.....A diver from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (wishing to remain anonymous), diving in the Red Sea,  found a number of 14th century Egyptian and Yemish silver coins with his Fisher 8X.

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