Busch Lite for me and for $3.10 you can also almost drink a 6 pack. Head for the Rockies.
Reel when I was 18 I bought an expensive pair of Oakleys. I was chillin in the surf about waist deep facing the beach when a rogue wave slammed over my head and knocked em off into the "abyss" as you so eloquently phrased it. Funny thing about it, moments later I shuffled my feet around in desperation trying to find them and actually thought I'd found them...only to reach down betwix my toes to find an old rusty pair of eyeglasses some old coot lost a year or two before. What are the odds on that??
After that I didn't wear sunglasses any more, not even cheap ones.