After conducting a preliminary assessment, I was confident that I would be successful in finding the ring. I agreed to travel to Leduc, where Tegan informed me that her fiancée was actively searching for the ring in the parking lot.
Upon my arrival, I encountered Chase, who was present in the parking lot. He had utilized snow melt to clear four parking stalls but had not yet located the ring. He had been searching for the past seven hours.
After thoroughly analyzing the area and employing my test ring, I concluded that the ring was not in the immediate vicinity. It was likely still on her vehicle or had fallen off during her departure from the parking lot.
I conducted a comprehensive search of the parking lot, extending from the exit of the parking lot to four parking stalls before Tegan’s stall. By this time Chase was convinced that the ring was gone for ever,
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Norm was absolutely amazing. By the time he showed up, I was feeling pretty dejected, and like it was a lost cause, as he mentioned, I had been searching for quite some time, to no avail – My fiancée called him in the afternoon, and he showed up promptly. He showed up with metal detectors, test rings to toss and see possible trajectories of where it could have flown off to, and he set off. He first combed the area that I had been working within to ensure I hadn’t missed it, and then proceeded to go far above what I would have expected. He started combing the entire parking lot drive, from end to end (about 20 spots length), and as he was coming back up from the end, he found it in the snow. Where he found it, I couldn’t have possibly imagined searching based on what was described to me by my fiancée.
I’m extremely impressed and grateful to Norm for finding the ring. I will be recommending him to anyone who loses a ring in the future.