Lost Cartier Platinum Wedding Band at Halekulani Beach…FOUND!!!
This ring find began when I got a text from Kawakita who with his wife was visiting Oahu from Japan. They were leaving the next morning at 11am and my backup ring finders were out of commission. I told him I would come over after my Royal Hawaiian hunt since they were the next beach over. Ends up I only had 90 minutes left on my parking to go over and hunt. I told Kawakita to meet me on the beach as I had minimal time. He quickly showed me the search area and I started immediately. We had some tourists in the way but they politely moved. As I started my fourth leg coming down into the wet sand I got a strong #9 on the Manticore and two scoops later there was the Cartier. I think Kawakita was as shocked as I was because we both thought it would be in the turbulent water. His wife whom I never got her name was just arriving on the beach and when he handed her, her ring she was overcome with joy. A few hugs and gracious thank yous sure made that a great hunt. Aloha to Kawakita and his lovely wife!
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.
