Lost Sentimental Silver Ring at Kahala Beach…FOUND!!!
This ring find began when I got a text from the Kahala Hotel and Resort Concierge asking if I was available for a guest’s lost ring recovery at the beach in the water. I responded that I was currently on a ring hunt and could be reached in about an hour and to give their guest my contact number. While driving home from that successful recovery I got a call from Sune who was visiting Oahu from Copenhagen, Denmark. As he was starting to swim the backstroke his Sentimental Silver Ring fell off in chest deep water. He borrowed a mask and snorkel but the water was too murky to see anything. I told Sune since it was getting late I’d get on the tide chart at my home computer and call him back for the best time to hunt the following morning. It so happened sunrise at 6:30 would be the beginning of a low tide and we agreed to meet in the hotel lobby. When I arrived Sune showed me the area he was in and it was perfectly calm water although the surf was breaking on the outer reef. Anyone who knows this beach it gets mucky in many spots and difficult to keep on a grid. I decided to start shallow and work deep parallel to the shore. I asked Sune if the depth I was at would be good and he said lets start a little bit shallower. So I did. I started the grid search and my first target was a nice high tone. I took a scoop and as the scoop broke the surface I had a wad of gray muck and green algae in the scoop. I got a glimpse of a silver shine and as I pulled the goop out of my scoop the silver ring was tangled in the algae. OMG! Had Sune not told me to go that little bit shallower I would have hunted for hours and not found it. These Kahala Beaches have played many tricks on me in the past and each time the ring had been found more shallow then expected. As you can imagine Sune was so grateful to have his sentimental ring back before he flies to Los Angeles this evening. Aloha to Sune!
