beach hunting the 505

The couple of times I took my 505 to the beach, the wet sand had me falsing everywhere. How do I fix this problem and still find jewelry and coins? Forgive the question if it is too basic, but I am going to a beach for a short hunt on Saturday. I don't want to waste any time fighting my machine, which works great every other place I have tried it. Thanks in advance.

Fathead

You can try lowering the sensitivity, but you may not be able to get it stable on wet sand (saltwater beach).

On the beach i keep my 505 on sensitivity 9:00 oclock, and the disc/notch also about 9:00 oclock, all metals, and i press the disc button, i just search everything it beeps because the jewelry will beep like iron & foil. this way you don't miss anything, you will get used to the beeps and know what the junk sounds like. i say just scoop up everything because you never know it could be the big one. i hit things in 10"inches in wet sand like a button from the 1600 hundreds. it works i'm 100% happy with my pioneer 505 BH