HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A luxury watch spent more than a year-and-a-half submerged off Kauai. But now its owner is finally getting this “buried treasure” back.

“It was a bond among all the divers. They have to find this. They have to get it back,” Gregory Greer told Hawaii News Now about the search for his lost 2002 Rolex Datejust watch.

The expensive timepiece fell off his wrist during a nitrox dive off Kauai’s south shore in December of 2023.

“And even after we finished all the different, the two dives, they went down and did an extra dive to go look for it and they couldn’t find it,” he explained.

Greer was visiting Hawaii from Falls Church, Virginia. He is an experienced diver who started back in 1981.

He calls diving his “folklore” - something that’s ingrained him.

“Everybody

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