Beachcomber: Hunting for Treasure with Kristin Hissong…VIDEO

Kristin Hissong is a North Carolina native and UNC Charlotte graduate, an Outer Banks resident of 15 years, and is a dedicated “professional beachcomber.” She has spent more 20,000 hours walking on and shorelines around the Eastern Seaboard, and has collected thousands upon thousands of items from the Atlantic Ocean.

For the past five years, she has been beachcombing on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands every day, collecting both treasures and trash on her routine expeditions. From typewriters to coffee makers, fishing rods to recliners, if you name it, there’s a good chance she has seen it washed up, and has hauled it to back to her collection, or to the closest dumpster.

IFP Contributor Rory Kelleher tags along on a beachcombing expedition, and takes a closer look at Kristin’s collection, as she reveals some of her favorite pieces and tricks of the trade.