1 September 2025. Yesterday, Labor Day Sunday, Nick lost his wedding ring at the beach. It was a special ring because it had been his father’s as well as his grandfather’s. While he felt somewhat resigned to the loss, his wife Hannah didn’t give up easily. She searched the internet in the evening and fortunately found the RingFinders. Nick called me this morning and we arranged to meet at the beach within about half an hour.
At the beach, Nick described where his family had been sitting the previous day and where he had been in the water for a relatively short time. He had not noticed his ring was missing until they returned to their B&B. This left a range of possibilities for where the ring was lost but the most likely was the beach. Where to search first? The tradeoff is between the dry sand (easy to search) and the water (more difficult but also more likely). I started easy, but after 10 or 15 minutes it was apparent that the ring was not in the area where Nick and Hannah thought they had been sitting.
Next, the water. Nick told how he had been wading and sitting in knee-deep water off to the west of where their beach chairs were. The current tide level was lower than it had been the previous day so I started with a long swath at the wave’s edge – no result. With further discussion, Nick felt that he’d been at a break in slope a bit farther out so I moved there for the next swath. This location was somewhat concerning because it contained thick, loose sandy gravel that was being moved about by wave action, raising the possibility that the ring could already be deeply buried and possibly beyond detector range. Fortunately within a few minutes I heard that sweet signal of success and had Nick’s ring in my scoop!
I dumped the gravel but left the ring in the scoop and walked up the beach to where Nick stood. I didn’t mention the ring but told him about the bad bottom conditions as I approached. Then the part I love the most – I held out the scoop so he could look inside, and suddenly all was well with the world!
We wrapped up with some very happy conversation and pictures. As it turned out, Nick, Hannah and their daughter were packed and ready to drive home, ending their Cape Cod vacation. I’m really pleased that I was able to change that ending from a sad to a joyful one as they hit the road!
Nick’s 3-generation wedding band.
A happy family ready to head home from their Cape Cod vacation.
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I have to admit I was very skeptical when my wife suggested I reach out to Brian to help look for my ring. I thought that the ocean takes what it wants and rarely gives it back.
When I called Brian he was great! He was able to meet us at the beach with 30 minutes of the call. He was very professional and systematic with his approach. Every time he dug into the sand my hopes shot through the roof only to dashed by a bottle cap or some other random item.
The good news was I generally knew where on the beach and in water I was the previous day. After 20 minutes searching on the beach Brian moved to the water itself. He asked me questions that I had a relatively good handle on. Within another 20 minutes and after his shovel dug into the water a few times, I resigned myself to it being a hopeless exercise.
Finally, Brian came up to me telling me that the sand under the water past the lip where I was swimming was very loose. I took this to mean that he decided to call it quits (which I didn’t blame him). But then he showed me the contents of his shovel and mixed in with some shells and rocks was my grandfather’s ring!
After a few days since the discovery, I still can’t believe Brian found my ring. If you lose something important to you on a Falmouth beach, Brian is your guy! I can’t thank him enough.
5 stars!