Lost Platinum Wedding Band at Hale Koa Volleyball Courts…FOUND!!!
This ring hunt occurred yesterday evening when I got a call from Noa who lives in Aina Haina on Oahu. While going up to block a volleyball spike at 50 MPH, the ball struck Noa’s Platinum Wedding band and he felt it come off. They immediately halted the game to see if anyone had spotted where it landed. Unfortunately no one did. They ran there hands lightly across the sand where they thought it would be but to no avail. Noa reached out to me and I agreed I’d come right down before the night crew of detectorists hit the beach. Easy parking and when I arrived Noa had already drawn a box of where the ring should be. I fired up the Manticore and started the search. The area was mostly sterile of targets. I covered the eastern half of the court and no ring was found. I expanded out in every direction on the eastern half but no ring. Surprisingly, I found a 1927 Buffalo Nickel! I even went perpendicular to my previous search, just in case. I talked to Noa and his lovely wife Camille and the only thing left was to try the western half of the court but none of us were hopeful knowing how the ball hit Noa’s hand and the probable trajectory of his ring. Then on about the fourth line of the grid I got a booming target and in one scoop I could here a heavy clunking in the scoop. To all of our surprise, it was Noa’s Platinum Ring. We can’t imagine how it got to that location just thankful to Jesus it was found. Then there were hugs of relief all around. Aloha to Noa & Camille!
