How to divine for water

Step 3 NEED FEEDBACK!!!!!

This project has been sitting in my unpublished pile for a little while now. I've been doing some testing with kids with special abilities and NOT having much luck at all. My girlfriend was sceptical but she CAN do it. I figure it may be the way you hold the wire. It has to be able to swing freely. I'm going to start using a bic pen case (the tube without the pen part) as a holder so they dont grip the wire so tightly.

I'd like to develop this in to a howtoons style game. Picture kids detecting water bottle 'mines' on a beach 'minefield' with some goal to find as many as possible to get across the mine field. Would give a lot of these kids a little confidence if they discovered a magical ability they never knew they had.

Sooo.... this is a call out to all instructablers. If you've got nothing better to do could you try and devine for water and report back with observations/results. I want to gauge how many people can do this and any problems you had.

THANK YOU!!!! - pauric

Comments

[stevsurv]

was a total sceptic till today. hmmm where do I start? One of the guys at work told me sometime ago that he could find water with 2 bent coathangers, so I said prove it! well, we found 2 coat hangers, bent them into an approximate 90 degree angle and he demonstrated. as he walked around work we watched him(others at work were watching too!) walking around slowly that the wires/rods crossed at several spots. he repeated the same thing twice and the rods crossed at the same places again! I watched his hands carefully while he was doing this and noticed no movement which accured while the rods moved. Being a sceptic I thought I would try this and follow the same path he did. To my amazement the rods actually moved at the same spots that had moved for him! I repeated this and came to the same result! I could feel the rods actually move themselves while holding them! whats going on here? anyone gotta sensible explanation? hmmmmm still trying to work this out. BTW we found all the water pipes in the place while trying this. including the main storm-water outlet. weird?!

[terrie]

Interesting -- I was with some folks who showed me this about 20 years ago. It was a strange thing to have those wires cross. They didn't tell me where the water sources in the yard were, but I "got a signal" at the appropriate places, plus one they didn't know about (unfortunately, we didn't dig up the yard to see if there was really anything there -- they claimed that there might be some sort of pipe underground there). If I can work out a way to test it again, I'll do so and report back. I'd love to understand why it seemed to work.

[radiorental]

There are various theories. I heard of people detect underground caves, I've seen film of a guy use a map and pointy pendant to detect water remotely. This definitely works, I'm fairly good at it. You said 'wires cross' did you use one in each hand? I should see if thats better, I remember starting that way and then realising I only needed one coathanger.

[terrie]

Yes, we used two pieces of coathanger wire, one in each hand. They'd start out parallel (both pointing forward), but would cross when over the water source. It's been a long time -- I can't remember accurately whether they continued to swing after crossing or not.

[radiorental]

Hey Terrie, read the first page, looks like you and me are some heathens who are out to undermine the entire scientific world with out alien witchcraftry Ladies first on to the wood pile.

[terrie]

Oh dear -- I'm not sure if I'll float, and I can't remember if it's better to float or not float.

[radiorental]

well, you're either with us or against us as they say. Lots of debate but not a lot of results so far. If you have some time I'd appreciate you waving your coathanger wand over a water jar cauldron. I know you said you did this as a kid but.. you know.. for formal scientific testing purposes could you run the experiement again as described here and report any changes you needed to make, I really would appreciate it.

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[radiorental]

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[The Muffin Man]

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