Ken Dewerson, Author at The Ring Finders

Phone tag to find the Key Fob owner in Kelowna.

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Friday night I received a phone call from a fellow detectorist, who asked if I could assist a lady with a lost key Fob. He gave me the ladies number, but the  group of ladies stranded could not identify the park where they where at, they forwarded me on to their Aunt from Edmonton. By the time we figured it out it is was dark, I told them I would be there the next morning.  Saturday morning I got there at 7am, without any specific location, just by the parked red Mazda, sand or maybe the grass? I started gridding the sand, and after 30 minutes I had the Car Fob. I phoned the Aunts number, phone not in use, so I called the initial detectors request, and he did not know, but his brother did, I called his brother who contacted the lady and said she would call me back. Her friends turned up and sure enough it was their Key Fob. They started the car and drove it to the owner. Key fobs are expensive to replace, especially with the car stranded.

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Experience Counts

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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I got a call from Lake Country BC, a one hour drive away, the gentleman told me he had lost his 18k yellow gold and ruby ring that his wife presented to him years ago. He hosted his sons wedding in his back yard around the pool, and lower patio area last Fall, he lost the ring removing lighting from around the pool. He had photographs from the patio showing that he had the ring before the lights removal, he suspected it was in the Basalt rocks around the patio, below where the lighting was, he thought it probably came off during the removal. His search had no results, I told him would respond the first good weather day. Yesterday was that day, I spent almost 2 hours gridding the area, and advised him the I was convinced that it was not there,  he responded that I was probably his last resort. I told him stories of past recoveries where the lost item often turned up the trash bags where leaves etc had been placed, and suggested he take down his packing boxes where he stored the lights and search them, he agreed and said that was also his plan. That evening he called to say he had found the ring, and thanked me for my time and travel, and that I was his inspiration to take down the boxes and search them,  his last hope was the boxes.

 

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14k wedding Ring Lost and Found at UBCO

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Got a phone call from Nanoose, Harry a professor at UBCO lost his 18k gold wedding band 3 days ago throwing a football at UBCO. I responded right away in Kelowna, and met his secretary who directed me to the area where he lost it. His football partner also came to show me, I worked that area with no luck, then started to grid the location. After 30 minutes of gridding, I found the ring that once again had been stepped on into the ground.   Another Happy Customer.

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Lost Ring Returned Summerland BC

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Heico and his wife were enjoying a day at the beach, when Heico took off his wedding ring, and placed it on the towel, to apply sun screen. Like all men our brain will only focus on one item at a time and the ring was forgotten. When leaving the beach Heico picked up the towel and realized he had no ring, they searched the location with no success. I responded early morning, and once he showed me the location, the ring was located quickly. Heico was amazed that it was exactly where they had searched, Heico was happy to have his wedding ring of 24 years returned.

 

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Kelowna Lost Wedding Ring Found and Returned

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Aliya called me that her husband Nathaniel had lost a Wedding Ring the previous evening, I responded right away. The Family had been having a photo shoot on Dilworth Mountain. During the photo shoot Nathaniel did not wear his wedding ring because it did not fit properly, so he borrowed his fathers ring ( who was not with them) for the shoot, unfortunately his fathers ring was also too loose, and wouldn’t you know it, he lost it. The family all searched the suspected loss location with no success, as luck would have it during their search, someone stepped on the ring and pushed it into the ground. The first sweep of my detector gave a signal, and after scraping the dirt we had fathers ring recovered. Everyone one was happy, and it saved an embarrassing conversation with father.

 

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Lost Ring during wasp attack, returned with a Metal Detector

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Thomas got out of his cab at the Kelowna hotel, only to be swarmed by wasps. In the process of waving his hands at them he lost his wedding ring, a group of people searched for it in the grass, to no avail. He called me and I responded within 15 minutes, he showed me the location by the tree with the wasps. I did a grid of the grass that was full of old construction metal. Being on the surface the ring was a good target, and within 10 minutes the ring was back on his finger. The ring belonged to his father, and he had it resized for his own wedding, it was very sentimental to him.

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Underwater Metal Detector finds 2 rings in Naramata

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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My 3rd lost ring call of the day came at dinner time from Tyler in Naramata to tell me that his wife had lost her wedding ring in the Lake. I was going to respond the next day, but went right after dinner. After an 80 minute drive, Tyler showed me the location of the missing ring, after 5 minutes I had a diamond ring in my scoop, he said that`s her engagemant ring, her wedding ring is still there. Another 15 minutes and we had them both, much to the delight of all the people in the resort who had initially helped to search for the rings, so it was cheers and high fives all round which brought Tyler`s wife to tears.

 

 

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Sentimental Ring lost for 2 weeks in Okanagan Lake Returned

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Robert`s sister was visiting, and they were swimming off their dock on Lake Okanagan. When climbing out onto the shore Roberts sister lost her sentimental Ring. They all searched for it for 2 weeks with snorkels, with no success, Robert found me on The Ringfinders Directory and gave me a call, I responded right away and drove to the location where Robert showed me the loss location that they had marked. The waves had pushed the ring a few inches into the gravel and I found it within minutes. Robert will return the ring to his sister and thanked me for my quick response and driving to his location.

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Lost Wedding Band in Okanagan Lake Returned

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Sumeet was with his family in a rubber dingy on Okanagan Lake when he noticed that his 18k yellow gold, covered by 19k white gold wedding ring was missing. he found me on The Ringfinders Directory and gave me a call, I responded right away and he showed me the location of the loss. After 90 minutes of searching we had the ring back on his finger. He was all smiles, but his wife was very excited and gave hugs all round.

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Lost Kelowna Ring found and returned

  • from Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)
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Warren and his family were down at the local beach to watch the fireworks display, after sitting in the sand, Warren went to wash his hands in the water. Back on the beach he shook the water off his hands and before he knew it, his ring was missing. The family searched until midnight with no success, they returned in the morning with a metal detector, again unsuccessfully. The ring belonged to his Father who had it and two other rings made from a gold nugget. Regretfully Warren`s Father had recently died, and Warren inherited his Father`s ring, unfortunately that was the ring he was wearing on the beach. I had been working my sales booth at a Rock & Gem show all weekend, and just got home when my wife said that I had a phone call on the recording machine, I returned the call to Warren who told me his story, I told him I would be there at 5:30 in the morning to search for it. I had no sooner hung up when I gave it second thoughts, Warren was very distraught so I called him back and said I would meet him at the beach in 45 minutes, the sooner the search the better. At the beach he showed me the loss location which I gridded for over 30 minutes. I told him there is a possibility that it went into the water and I would return in the am to search the water. Before I left the beach, I searched the waters edge getting my feet wet, only to recover the ring. Another happy family, I love it.

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