Item recovered September 22, 2024. Venkata reached out to me by text to see if I could help locate a
lost ring somewhere on a Cricket field. He was sitting on the bleachers preparing for the game and took his ring off his finge
r to put into his pocket. However, after the game was over, he could not locate the ring.
His position took him over a large portion of the cricket field, so I set off to search the entire area. I walked straight lines back and forth over the large area where he had been. I worked slowly and while the grass was short, rings can easily hide below the blades of grass.
It took me about one hour and 15 minutes to cover the area where he had been and there was very little metal on the field itself. We decided to go back to the metal bleachers where he was sitting and we both visually inspected the area underneath the seats since the metal detectors wouldn’t be effective in this location.
No ring was found under the bleachers, so I got the detector going again and started detecting the area surrounding the bleachers. There were many metal targets in this area, including the typical bottle caps and small aluminum bits we often find at parks and beaches.
One particular sound gave me pause and upon inspection it was Venkata’s missing ring! The ring had fallen below the blades of grass and was hidden from plain view.
Venkata was thrilled to have his ring back!
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