Gold wedding ring Seal Rocks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This plain yellow wedding band was lost in the dry sand at Seal Rocks on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

The ring’s owners were unable to lactate it after several hours of searching and returned home.

They found The Ringfinders and contacted me and were able to send Google Earth maps good enough for me to get the job done. After approximately an hour of searching I heard the sweet tone of yellow gold and sent the photo. The ring went into the post the next day and The Ringfinders had another two very satisfied customers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The local life guards called as they do a lot lately and I headed to Elizabeth Beach to search for Josh’s platinum and gold wedding ring that he had lost on the beach. On arrival I met Josh’s very enthusiastic daughter and gave her my trusty scoop « Alice » (Alice Scooper).

Ten minutes later and that sweet sound of high quality non-ferrous metal erupted through the Minelab Excalubur II headphones.

The young one went to work with Alice and dug Josh’s ring out of the sand. The look on her face made it all worthwhile and the lifeguards received a donation.

Another very happy Ringfinders client.

Platinum ring found on SCUBA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This platinum ring was lost in Wallis Lake in New South Wales, Australia and was recovered three weeks later after three hours of SCUBA diving with the Minelab Excalibur II.

Friends of the ring’s owner, who had given up seeing it again, engaged me to search for the ring without his knowledge and arranged it’s return in an unofficial « ceremony » on Australia Day. Loads of fun and a satisfying result.

White gold engagement ring found in back yard

This beautiful engagement ring was located in a back yard in Forster NSW, Australia after a self-appointed expert searched and declared it not to be in the area.

Twenty minutes with the Minelab Excalibur II located it in thick vegetation and had it back in the hands of the wearer.

Gold ring recovered after five months in the mud

This 18ct yellow gold ring with tiger’s eye chrystal was recoverd five months after it was lost in deep mud in Wallis Lake in New South Wales, Australia.

A systematic search with the Minelab Excalibur II located it after about an hour of searching after it was lost from a hire boat on the lake.

Two very happy people and one very satisfied Ring Finder.

On a family trip five years and one day after Josh and Christine were married, Josh’s platinum wedding ring slipped off his finger in knee-deep water at Pilot Beach on the mid north coast of New South Wales in Australia.

Christine’s email arrived in my inbox four days later closely followed by that « it’s on » feeling I’m sure we all experience at the start of a search.

Pilot Beach is about a ninety minute drive north from my home and it is probably best described as a semi-surf beach lying inside two break walls at the mouth of the Camden Haven River.

After speaking to Christine and gathering  information on the time of loss, surf conditions, tide height and the arrival of  Google Earth photos of the location and several family photos from the day we set off to search for the ring. Christine expressed gratitude that someone would drop everything and head out looking for something for a total stranger and I suspect that she was not overly hopeful that the mission would be a successful one.

Searching for lost items with no direct contact with the owner can be difficult and Christine was speaking to me from Sydney but her photos and maps and the accuracy of her memory of the location that became apparent on arrival at the search area provided the confidence I needed.

With the search area pegged out from the maps and photos I went to work with my Minelab Excalibur. Encouragingly there were few signals from the detector in the upper sector of the search area and with one possible target marked in the mid sector in about a foot of water. Digging here was futile as the surf returned most of the sand dug right back into the hole so I completed the lower sector in waist deep water as the tide dropped locating one bottle top for the rubbish bin.

A few minutes of careful digging and scanning back  at the marked signal uncovered a  platinum ring with the inscription confirming that it was the target ring approximately one foot from the surface of the sand. A quick message to Christine on the phone while dodging the beginning of a thunder storm saw us back in the car for the return journey. Mission accomplished thanks to The Ring Finder

Nick

All I had at the start of this search was a second hand lost ring story and a rough search area on an island at Wallis Lake in Forster NSW.

The ring had been lost by a group who had hired a boat earlier that day and the search area was described as « somewhere over there in the water near that sign ».

What made it worth having a go was the sea grass bed which defined the seaward limit of the search area and a vague description of where the people were seen to have been searching and reports that they had been searching in knee-deep water about two hours earlier. Objects lost in water are less likely to be « accidentally » found so the odds for success were good.

Work commitments prevented me searching until late the next day but after about forty minutes, two lead sinkers, a bottle top, the top of an old aluminium can and a few startled sting rays the ring was in the scoop just after dark. That’s one of the great things about what we do; when you think about it, there is no great need for light once your search area is set up.

The ring was white gold with a small diamond with no inscription.

That was challenge one completed but challenge two was locating the ring’s owner. With some assistance from a very helpful boat hire company and a local Council Ranger, the ring’s owner was found. The next day the ring was picked up from my office so I never met Wade (ring owner) but the irony of the name and the fact that his wedding  ring was lost in knee-deep water didn’t escape me.

Nick