Lost Platinum & Diamonds Wedding Ring at Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon…FOUND!!!


This ring hunt began when I got a text from Keli asking, « Can you possibly help us? My husband lost his wedding band? » I immediately called and told Keli who was on vacation from Bowie, Maryland, that I would grab my gear and head down as I’m only 10 minutes away from the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Thankfully, when I arrived there was a free parking stall. Keli met me at the Shrimp truck and then took me to meet her husband Jason so he could narrow down the search area. Jason assured me he was only waist deep when he caught the football which knocked his Platinum & Diamond wedding ring off and he watched it disappear into the murky lagoon. The first grid we made only yielded some trash & coin targets. Keli really thought they were more to the west so I extended that direction and no luck still. Jason and Keli asked if I could do a few more grid lines to the west towards a gentleman on the beach. I was on what was going to be the final leg when « BOOM » nice 37-54 target on the Manticore and in one scoop there was Jason’s awesome ring in the scoop. Several cheers rang out on the beach as I reunited Jason with his ring. We had a few laughs and hugs and it was obvioud there vacation was going to be just fine. Aloha to Jason & Keli!

















If you didn’t have a chance to read the original story, Jennifer had lost 2 ring in the water where they dock their boat. I recovered the one ring (wedding band) on the first trip, but the beautiful family heirloom diamond ring was hiding on the muddy bottom, in a location that my metal detector had not yet covered. It was getting late so I packed it in for the day and promised I would return after vacation in a few weeks. It was a safe location, otherwise I would have never postponed looking for the second ring. We made arrangements as I usually do prior to showing up, and quickly got to work upon my arrival. I decided to use my other machine with the 6′ coil, as the target location is a much more concentrated location. The reason for that was because marina locations tend to be very trashy, due to the fact that once an item is dropped into the water, its usually forgotten about. The larger coil I had used on the first recovery attempt was picking up to many signals at one time, therefore the beautiful filigree diamond ring was getting overpowered by other metallic items on the bottom. WELL, that was obviously a good idea because I had Jennifer’s ring in my scoop in under 5 minutes.