A word of advice to Apple Watch owners that spend time on chain o ‘lakes: get a better lease for the device that comes with it.
While diving with your metal detector, Darik Langos has collected about 200 smart watches from water. The original watch band was attached to almost all.
“Those with sports bands … they don’t live in water,” Langos said.
25 -year -old Langos of Port Barrington has also found dozens of smartphones and hundreds of rings and other jewelry over the years, dives on the lake of chain o ‘lakes and the lake of Ozarks in Missouri, where his parents have a holiday house.
They have created two passions – scuba diving and metal detecting – in a business, scuba bear diving recovery service. For a fee and what was lost and where it depends on, Langos will discover the lost property.
“This is a good payment gig, but is a super niche,” Langos said, “I am the cheapest man I know. If I can’t find it then I don’t charge.”
While their base rate is variable, it depends on where the item is and how much it can be under water, “I don’t want to shock people with my prices,” he said.
Langos introduced two hobbies youth, received scuba certification at the age of 10 and at the age of 11 his first metal detector. This first detector model was “from Dadaji in the 1970s who now did nothing compared to the models she had.”
Now the model he uses will detect metal under 50 feet water. “It was a game changer for me,” Langos said.
When he receives a call, he does not go to the treasure. Langos also goes out on his own. He has never sold anything that he has been found on tour and now it has a classification of cellphones, smart watches, rings, earrings, some hunting knives and most rusty guns cleaned by the police.
“I have not sold anything, including a white gold cartier ring, until I take it back to the owner,” he said.
As far as apple watches go, most still take a charge, but because they are closed, it is difficult to bring it back to a owner. If he can send the message “Call this number” for a cellphone, he is capable of returning it. Cellphone companies have shown most owners indifferent to bringing the device back.
Langos said that Langos is ahead of its ability to find lost objects in the lake. If the owner is 99% certain that where the lost assets can be, he can find it. If the property is “outside the middle of the lake” is less likely to find it.
One of his biggest discovery requests has been for leaflet glasses. “They can be more expensive by insanity, $ 800 for prescription glasses. Langos said that I am able to find it in less than a minute.
Metal detection as an hobby had increased popularity during epidemics, detectors were raised to do something to exclude people. Langos recommends those who think they want to try to start themselves with low-cheer models.
This is the advice from Ron noise, owner of Chicago’s Windy City Metal Detectors. He is a metal detector retailer since 1985.
Interest in detection of metal has been “very stable,” said noise, but it saw an increase during Kovid -19 and when gold and silver prices rise. The equipment has also improved significantly in the last few years.
Machines can be purchased online, but those detectors can also be disappointing. If they are very advanced for a new user, the noise said. “I tell them not to buy the top of the line. See if you enjoy hobbies. You do not want $ 1,000 detector that sits in the closet. ,
People feel that it is clean to see their three big jars of wheat penis, the noise said. For each of them, he had to sit on his knees and dig to find out what the machine was found.
He also warns that the YouTube video of the explorers finding the gold rings is likely to have a small percentage of what the person actually digs. “You only see them digging for good goods. I have a case here … with a ton junk “which was dug.” It’s just a part of the game. “
The noise will call Langos for people looking for their lost property or when a dive is required for searching.
“I am close to 80 now. I do not know as much as I used to do, “the noise said. “On the plus side, there is no other hobby that will pay for yourself when you use it today, with the cost of gold.”
Even at the prices, Langos does not intend to start selling the jewelry he has received. He has some pieces that he wants to return to the owner, such as a large class ring from Missouri. He has arrived online for a man with a matching name, but has not heard back.
The Langos has some spots on the lakes of the McHeenry County that he discovers regularly. “I get a lot of coins and garbage. This can be a needle in a histor when he makes a locally search request. “People throw their waste into water and these are all bottle cap and beer cans.”