This ring find began when I got a call from Four Seasons Beach Team informing me that one of their guests who was on vacation from Oakland, California and lost his 24K Gold Wedding band in the lagoon and wanted to know if I could recover it. I said « Of course » and to give that guest my number and I could coordinate the recovery. He called and told me he was swimming on his back in about 4 feet of water and his Wedding Ring slipped off and disappeared into the murky water. High surf has been pounding our west coast and stirring up the Ko Olina lagoons. I told him I would arrive the next morning at the low tide which would be around 10am. I arrived a bit early and discovered another detectorist on the beach. The beach team told him he couldn’t be there, at the same time I was arriving. His name was Paul, nice guy, just read the rules online wrong. I did direct him to Paradise Cove beach which is open to all detectors. I counted out the umbrellas the ring should be straight out from and entered the water a little right of that to create a grid search. I went out to neck deep water turned left. I took two steps and Boom screaming high tone. Four scoops later in the murky water and finally the heavy 24K gold ring was in the scoop. I went back to my car to text a pic and he confirmed. I went back to the Four Seasons Beach entry for the return. Another one for the book of smiles. Aloha!
Hey Joe, it’s Paul. Thanks for the kind words. I have this app that I use back on the mainland called on x hunt …. It has satellite images with every land owner and their property lines. It clearly shows that the four lagoons are privately owned by Ko Olina Develoment LLC. (I hadn’t thought to use it on Hawai’i) I’ll try to get a screenshot to you….. (also the county accessors office probably has a similar map showing property owners) …. It might be handy to have on you and Neil’s phones when explaining the descrepency from the commonly understood Hawaii law regarding all of the shoreline being public property….
Thank you Joe for a miraculous save — our trip was off to a scary start having lost my wedding band on day 1! Thankfully, by the morning of day 2, we had my ring back, along with a wonderful new story to tell about Joe and his services. He’s clearly skilled at what he does, and very nice, too. The perfect match for the otherwise stressful situation of losing something so important and personal.