Hi I am completely new at this, I would like to buy my wife a metal detector, she loves hunting the beaches for rocks , glass or whatever she can find. We live on Vancouver Island and do most of our beach combing on the ocean shore. I have read many articles about which metal detector would be the best around salt water shores . Well what I have come up with are two which I think are good . The teknetics t2 or the garret pro AT. I don't know which one would be better.I do know the teknetics is about 200 more. I would appreciate your input Thanks