Lost Gold with Black & White Diamonds Wedding Band at Ulua Lagoon…FOUND!!!


This ring hunt began when I was called by Megan who lives on Oahu with her husband CJ. She had purchased a detector from Walmart and went to Ulua Lagoon to try and find CJ’s Yellow Gold with Black & White Diamonds Wedding band in shallow water. He lost it the day before playing with his young daughter in the water. The metal detector she purchased at Walmart would start chirping in the wet sand and was impossible to use in the water. Phil from Aloha Security Team saw her struggling and went down to the beach to let her know one she wasn’t allowed to detect the beach and second that they had a guy who would find it for her. Relieved someone was available she called me and I just happened to be finishing a scuba hunt at Four Seasons but unfortunately I only had my scuba detector. However, I was going to squat and do whatever I could as she thought it was only ankle to knee deep. The hunt was unsuccessful. I told her I would return the next morning to hunt. When I arrived and the sun came up the area I needed to hunt was plastered with Box Jellies alive and dead. I stopped counting at around 80! I texted Megan we would have to wait two days. Once I got home I started thinking about the unauthorized detectorist we found at Lagoon 4 and I decided I’ll put on my 3 mil wetsuit and booties and go dodge the jellies. This morning I only saw a dozen or so but I was fully protected. I started the hunt and on about the 6th leg I got a nice tone on the Nox 800 in knee deep water. After one scoop there was CJ’s stunning ring in the scoop. We met at the Hickam AFB Post Office for the return. CJ was extremely thankful and I found out we served on the same ship USS George Washington CVN-73, although many years apart. Much Aloha to CJ & Megan!



Got a call from Allison about a cross and chain lost in the sand, in Lavallette NJ. She said her son Jake was there with some friends, and before entering the water, he removed it and wrapped it up in his towel for safe keeping. Later on he remembered it was in the towel, but after looking around for quite a while it was nowhere to be found. After digging around the entire area with no luck, they used a metal detector, and had the same results. I met them on the beach, and they had the entire area marked out which is always a good thing. After searching the area in two directions with no luck, we decided to look to the south, which was the opposite side of where the towel was positioned in the first location. A few feet into the new area I received a faint but solid tone, and bingo, there it was. Most likely Jake came out of the water an grabbed the towel, and by the time it was opened enough for the cross to fall out he was about 25′ of so from the original location.














