Tennessee Underwater Metal Detecting

[high_order1]

Did some searching.

Can't swim off boat launches, probably can't scuba at the state parks, what if you just want to help someone find a lost item?

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

Huh?

 

[high_order1]

I don't want any trouble.

I have been researching the use of a metal detector. Apparently, save certain exceptions, TN takes a dim view on them.

So, if my buddy loses a giant college ring off the dock, I am trying to figure out a way to help him out without running afoul of the TWRA, CoE, park police and numerous other equities.

 

[rongoodman]

has your buddy lost his ring?

 

[The Chairman]

You have to have a permit to search on public lands in Tenneessee. I have no idea how to obtain one, but looking for a certain item would probably be OKed.

 

[high_order1]

has your buddy lost his ring?

Not yet, but he's losing weight LOL

I am pregaming the concept. Someone asks if I can help, the answer is pretty murky and apparently positionally dependent.

I'm not interested in treasure or relic seeking, that's what got the TVA to rescind their detector permits.

I just don't like the idea of an enforcement arm impounding all my gear and taking an attorney two years and thousands of dollars to prove I had no criminal intent.

Had hopes someone on here already has been doing this kind of thing and had some good gouge on the topic. (shrugs)

 

[Celt]

Not yet, but he's losing weight LOL

I am pregaming the concept. Someone asks if I can help, the answer is pretty murky and apparently positionally dependent.

I'm not interested in treasure or relic seeking, that's what got the TVA to rescind their detector permits.

I just don't like the idea of an enforcement arm impounding all my gear and taking an attorney two years and thousands of dollars to prove I had no criminal intent.

Had hopes someone on here already has been doing this kind of thing and had some good gouge on the topic. (shrugs)

My friend had an argument with his girlfriend and she through the ring in the lake. My friends mooring float was lost and the chain went in the mud. Mr friend lost her iPhone taking selfie. My sons friend was jumping in or swimming and lost his Apple Watch etc etc etc. Place an add offering to help retrieve lost items for free.

 

[GreggS]

Not yet, but he's losing weight LOL

I am pregaming the concept. Someone asks if I can help, the answer is pretty murky and apparently positionally dependent.

I'm not interested in treasure or relic seeking, that's what got the TVA to rescind their detector permits.

I just don't like the idea of an enforcement arm impounding all my gear and taking an attorney two years and thousands of dollars to prove I had no criminal intent.

Had hopes someone on here already has been doing this kind of thing and had some good gouge on the topic. (shrugs)

Seems to me the most obvious thing for him to do if he's losing weight and the ring is becoming loose is to just not dive or swim with it on. Just leave it at home or put it in with his personal belongings before getting into the water. If he insists on getting into the water with it, then that's on him.

 

[high_order1]

My friend had an argument with his girlfriend and she through the ring in the lake. My friends mooring float was lost and the chain went in the mud. Mr friend lost her iPhone taking selfie. My sons friend was jumping in or swimming and lost his Apple Watch etc etc etc. Place an add offering to help retrieve lost items for free.

I don't know that it is legal to do so, even if I desired to do that.

Seems to me the most obvious thing for him to do if he's losing weight and the ring is becoming loose is to just not dive or swim with it on. Just leave it at home or put it in with his personal belongings before getting into the water. If he insists on getting into the water with it, then that's on him.

...
there is no friend. It is a hypothetical situation. Good common sense answers, but if common sense were common, there would never be a need for the ability, right?

 

[rongoodman]

So you've come up with a hypothetical situation to solicit ideas for getting around TN regulations governing the use of metal detectors. It appears a little disingenuous to me.