Come on get happy!
I don’t know about you, but I regularly consider treasure hunters on the beach whilst sitting in the lineup. What is the average day’s haul? The most valuable thing the average treasure hunter has ever discovered? Is it cathartic swinging that contraption around? Does it really work? Is there a lifestyle blog associated with treasure hunting? Does it also feature shark attack news? Plus many more questions.
Well, just days ago a thirteen-year-old treasure hunting Florida boy discovered a titanium leg while searching for treasure. He did not have the above set up but was rather scuba diving. And before we consider if the beach treasure hunter burns with jealousy over the scuba treasure hunter let us learn all we can about this heart-warming story from The New York Post.
A Florida man lost his leg while surfing — only to be reunited with his prosthetic weeks later after a boy found it on a treasure hunt.
Carter Hess was surfing the waters of St. Andrews last month when a wave came crashing down on him and knocked off his custom made, $3,000 titanium prosthetic leg.
He tried searching for it the next two days and came up empty, The Panama City News Herald reported.
“I knew immediately it was off of me,” said Hess. “I’ve surfed in much bigger waves and it never came off like that.”
Weeks went by until Sebastian Morris, a 13-year-old from Santa Rosa Beach, found the leg mostly buried in the jetties of a park, roughly 30 feet away, while on a treasure hunt with his father, Bobby, according to the outlet.
“I don’t think I would have ever found it,” Hess said.
The teen started an online campaign to find its owner and Hess’s friends forwarded him a story on the effort.
Hess connected with Sebastian’s family online and they met up to return the leg and let Hess treat them to dinner.
Hess, who lost his leg serving in Afghanistan, is now considering taking up scuba treasure hunting for himself which brings us back around to beach vs. scuba. After spending more time considering, I feel that the beach treasure hunter does, in fact, burn with jealousy over the scuba treasure hunter who not only has better stories, finds better treasure and has a better time but also pulls more action in the tiki bar after the sun is set looking all like this…
Very suave.
Sophisticated and brave.
Watch or forward to the very end. Last 10 seconds or so…
I thought I was doing bad in the comparison with my peers from school, until I heard of a kid who was living in an broken down kombi, on a vacant block of bushland, with four kids, who spent his days metal detecting for small change.
Compare that to the guy who had a scuba qual and then got asked to do an advert for some tea in the waters of Noosa.
Well gosh, maybe I shouldn’t take moral guidance from celebrities after all.