Lost Gold Plumeria Ring at Ala Moana Beach Park…FOUND!!!
This ring find began when I got a call from Zoe who lives in Tampa, Florida and was on vacation visiting friends on Oahu. Zoe just recently purchased the gold plumeria ring as a memento to her visit as it was her favorite flower of Hawaii. She had taken it off and placed it on a beach blanket for safe keeping. The wind picked up and was blowing sand and rain. Zoe picked up the blanket to shake off the sand and at the same time realized the ring had been on it. Zoe, her Hanai Aunt & a friend searched but couldn’t find the ring in the sand. I told Zoe I could be there in about 15 minutes. When I arrived Zoe had already marked the area. I started up the Manticore and began the search. After covering the suspected area with no find I expanded the grid in every direction. Still no ring. I could see a look of hopelessness on Zoe’s face and I was quite puzzled as to where the ring could be. I decided to go perpendicular to the initial search and farther down towards the water. BOOM! Way out of the initial grid towards the water the Manticore screamed and as I looked down I could see the faint outline of a gold ring in the wet sand. I yelled over to Zoe and the other girls and they all ran down to the spot to see. Several hugs and laughs later Zoe’s vacation is saved. That blanket sure tossed the ring! Aloha to Zoe!
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Tuesday, May 18 at approximately 11 AM I received a call from Niomi regarding a ring she had lost at a Little League game. She asked if I would be willing to search for it and I said, of course. I gathered my equipment and made my way towards their ballpark. On the way I called Niomi to get the story. She had placed three tings inher pocket and she remembered counting them as she put them in. Then later, she left the bleacher area to use the porta potty and had her phone in the same pocket. On the way across the back of the ballfield, she pulled her phone out. When I arrived on the field, the first thing we searched was the porta potty. I convinced Niomi to stand on the porta potty while her daughter and I tipped it in four different directions very slowly. She could see nothing there. She was really anxious to get a ring back. Next, we searched around the metal objects of the field with a small coil and found nothing there. Niomi and her husband had rented a metal detector and detected for several hours, digging many holes in the field and finding just the usual debris. I started making straight line searches across the field, covering about 4 feet at a time. On the second pass, Niomi mentioned that she wouldn’t have gone through that area because there were standing water there at the time of the game. I asked her which side of the water she passed on, but she could not remember. I told Niomi and her daughter to just wait there and I was going to make some expanding circle searches around this wet area. On the second circle I received the sound that I was looking for. I saw the ring, but I didn’t tell Niomi her daughter right off that it was there. I then told her I needed a few pictures for documentation and I took the first picture of her pondering. I asked her what she was thinking. She said I think we might not find it. I said yeah I know what you mean but we haYour ring is right here. She was overjoyed to say the least. Her ring is back where it belongs.
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