Lost Tungsten, Gold & Diamonds Wedding Ring at Royal Hawaiian Beach…FOUND!!!
This ring hunt began when I got a call from Nate who was on vacation from Seattle, Washington. While wrestling with his son in chest deep water his Tungsten, White Gold and Diamonds Wedding Ring came off and disappeared in the soft sand. He tried using a mask & snorkel but the ring was buried. I agreed to meet him first light on the beach. While I was waiting for Nate to arrive another detectorist strolled through the low tide trough. I texted Nate “Hurry we have competition!” I told the competition what we were doing and he continued out of the area. Nate set some grid extremes for me and in I went in with the Manticore. The sets were coming in crazy from waist deep to over my head. A few times my headphones got ripped off my skull. After completeing the grid in about an hour I had only found a silver toe ring, a broken copper necklace and a cherry earring. Nate became quite sure of his distance so I went out and did a parallel to shore hunt. Suddenly, I had a screaming target and after two scoops there was the ring in my scoop. I told Nate I believe I got it. I noticed him clasp his hands in prayer and one look in the scoop it was confirmed. Wife never has to know! Aloha to Nate!
I was at a family picnic when I received a call from Anthony, stating that he had just lost his beautiful cross on the beach, somewhere in the area they were sitting. It was early afternoon and I told him I would be able to swing by soon, and to secure the area so nobody else came and setup their beach things in the exact same spot. Anthony assured me that was not a problem because they were there for the entire day, plus the fact he was very anxious to get his cross back where it belonged around his neck. We spoke about the events leading up to the mishap, that’s when he told me about the big creator he and his friends had dug that day in the sand where they were sitting. He said they had all been digging around looking for the cross for quite a while, but were positive it must be there somewhere, because he had spent the best part of the morning there, digging. It was then I asked them to please stop digging otherwise the cross may get buried to deep for my machine to pick it up. When I arrived I could see the creator from the dune walkover, and it was pretty big. Sure enough, it was close to 4′ deep, and roughly 6′ in circumference. I hopped in, scanned the entire bottom and the walls, without even a squeak of a sound from my metal detector. Next, I scanned the piles of sand they had pulled out of the hole with no luck either. I asked them to pull the piles down lower, to an average of no more than 10″ higher than the regular beach level. Once again, no luck anywhere, so only one more place to look was the bottom, after they pulled about 10″ of sand out. Now, with all the sand moving, I assured that the cross was positively NOT in, or anywhere around the crater. So, back to the drawing board, where he mentioned they were tossing a football on the tide line earlier, and that his friend did tackle him there. I told him I really wish he mentioned that earlier, as the tide had been rising very quickly. Once he showed me the area, the cross was in my scoop within 2 minutes. If Anthony told me that one detail of the day, my search would have started there, and all the sand moving could have been eliminated. Lost of detective work is needed to rescue items from their hiding places.
