American Military News by Corey Arwood 1/12/2020
When a treasure hunter’s metal detector signaled to something in the shoreline south of Vero Beach, he was hopeful he’d discovered a historic relic — maybe a cannonball.
Jeff Emlet, 37, soon learned he was digging up a land mine with his bare hands.
“I dropped my metal detector and ran back and told everybody to get … away,†said Emlet after discovering the object at 1:54 p.m. Tuesday.
Emlet said he struck it with the digger he was using so he used his hands to uncover the rest.
Born and raised in Vero Beach, he said he goes treasure hunting about “every other day.â€
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Jeff Emlet, 37, of Vero Beach, uncovered what local officials said was a land mine on a
stretch of beach off Reef Road, which was an area used during WWII to practice for
D-Day invasions of Normandy, France.
