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Lost wedding ring/set recovered, Bass Lake, Indiana

  • from Granger (Indiana, United States)
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Julie had walked out to the docked pontoon, boarded it and was cleaning the seats near the rear of the deck. At one point, she was near the rearmost deck rail by the outboard engine. Her wedding ring (soldered set) slipped off her finger and took the plunge into the water. She said she saw it go into the water. Her and her husband tried to recover the ring to no avail.

They turned to the internet, searching for any means to find a lost ring in the water and came across the RingFinders website and contacted me.

Julie said she Always takes her ring off to go out by the water, but simply forgot, this one time!
As usual, being near a pier/dock, I had the usual undesirable targets to deal with, like nuts, bolts, metallic debris and hot rocks.

After about five minutes I got a good sounding signal on the detector, crossed my fingers (betting this was gonna be it). I located the target with my pinpointer and could feel a ring with a really large topside in my fingers. Looked to be it!

Didn’t waste any time, turned and carefully handed it over to Julie, who broke out in tears crying. I was at the ready to catch the ring or her, just in case.

A lot of family was there, for Father’s Day, they all expressed their appreciation.

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Lost wedding ring recovered from pond, Plymouth Indiana

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Cameron and his buddy were in a paddle boat at the family « swimming hole » (pond). They managed to capsize their paddle boat, losing their sunglasses and Cameron’s Tungsten wedding ring at some point, allegedly in the middle of the pond. There were several people present when they capsized, but all had conflicting recollections of the location. Pond depth was about 11 feet, with enough silt to make it a cloudy zero visibility search and tall weeds collecting on the detector, which had to be constantly untangled and shed. I found many shotgun shells, coins, fishing sinkers, bottle caps and miscellaneous metallic items throughout the better part of an hour, but no ring. Cameron said they had lost the sunglasses immediately when they fell into the water. I managed to locate the first pair of sunglasses, put out a marker device i had with me, did a circle pattern around that and found the other missing sunglasses. I continued circling my marker (best i could, not being able to see it) in hopes of finding the ring. I found a few more targets, but still no ring. Being quite tenacious, I continued the search, until getting down to a few hundred pounds of air, figuring that was about it. As always though, I continued to search on my way out towards shore, getting a very loud signal just two steps from shore’s edge. Located this target with my pin-pointer and pulled out a gray and black tungsten ring, it was Cameron’s lost ring, right in front of all the onlookers that had gathered to observe.

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Lost gold charm found in Lake Michigan, Union Pier Michigan

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Diana was at the family lake home, playing with the kids in the water. Her cherished birthstone charm fell off it’s thin gold necklace. The necklace fell on her arm, but the charm was lost in the water. They looked for it, but could not see it on the sandy bottom.
Her husband spoke to me about the search area. I had him mark up some satelite screenshots indicating the best guess where it was lost, which was between two sand paths. He said it was betwen knee and calf deep. He descibed the charm as dime sized.
I searched for around an hour, finding several metallic targets. Got a very small target indication, carefully scooped it, and could see the charm’s diamonds and tourmaline stone! It was waist deep, a little deeper than suspected, but between the two paths as guestimated.
Kyle had lost his wedding ring over on the Chicago side of Lake Michigan in the past, which was recovered by a fellow Ringfinder. He immediately knew where to look for help with this loss!

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Lost platinum wedding ring recovered Indian Lake, Dowagiac Michigan

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Andrew was in town visiting friends at their lake cottage. They all decided to head out to the floating dive platform just a little ways out from the end of the dock. They began playing catch with a football, having it thrown from the dock end and jumping off the floating platform to make catches while mid jump.
Andrew jumped off the platform, made a catch and realized his platinum wedding band had fallen off at some point in that action.
This area of the lake has an “endless” muck bottom, not ideal at all for diving to search for a ring.
Descending slowly, my feet hit the bottom and I continued to sink in the muck up to my waist (tank bottom stopped me from going further). Had to be careful and not push the ring down in the muck beyond detection range by accident. After finding a few pull tabs and a few aluminum carabiners, it was looking grim. I surfaced to get my bearings again (no visibility!). I descended again to make another sweep and got a signal on my first swing. Got pinpointer out, located the target and could feel a ring at the tip, about 9 inches down, suspended in the “muck pudding”.

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3 lost gold rings found, Highland Shores, Mi

  • from Granger (Indiana, United States)
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Shari was in the water, about chest deep, playing catch with a volleyball. She had caught the ball and then threw it to her son. Right when the ball was thrown, she felt her 3 gold rings fly off, parallel to the shore. The family searched visually using goggles or masks with no luck. They were confident with their description of the loss location. I searched that area for a good hour, covering it in multiple directions with no luck. Being rather tenacious, knowing they may be “off” in their estimated loss location, I expanded the search beyond their area “limits”. Ten feet beyond and I got a nice mid-tone and a thin gold ring in the scoop. A foot away, a double mid-tone and two more thin gold rings in the scoop!
It appeared Shari had lost hope when she left the beach after an hour.
I walked back to their lake home and gave her a thumbs up and said “all three”! She couldn’t believe it and was very happy.

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Lost gold wedding ring recovered in Indian Lake, Vicksburg Michigan

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Newly wed couple, Zach and Cherise, had both gotten on their float tubes to enjoy some time on the water. After getting on his tube, Zach “pushed off” of the step-deck of their boat docked in the boat lift. As soon as he did that, his white gold ring fell off and into the water. They tried to locate the ring using goggles and swim masks, but couldnt stay down under well enough. The bottom was also mucky with weeds covering it. The water depth was from 5 to 8 feet where the ring fell off, requiring scuba gear utilization.
I searched for awhile and found several metal sparkler wire pieces, some metallic trash and a fillet knife blade (save some one from potential injury). After about ten minutes I got a nice mid-tone signal in the right area surrounded by iron trash signals. Got my pinpointer in action, felt a signal from down in the muck and then felt a ring, The couple was happy and a very sharp hidden hazard was removed from the swim area.

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Lost gold ring recovered in Little Pike Lake, Warsaw Indiana

  • from Granger (Indiana, United States)
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Zoey called about her husband losing his rose gold wedding band in a park swimming area. She said they were in 4 feet of water when he felt it slide off. They recalled that they were “to the left” of a certain lifeguard seat and in line with a certain rope buoy. Immediately upon starting the search, I knew it was going to possibly be an iffy chance, dud to molten slag gravel making up most of the base layer of the swim area. After confidenyly searching the area stated by them, I expanded the search to deeper water, got a nice mid-tone signal between constant slag signals while on mg tip toes, water up to my chin (I am 6’3”). Right on the edge of a drop off. Scooped the target and when checking the scoop, saw a rose gold band in it! I looked and saw Zoey standing at the water’s edge, she had lost hope (after about 25 minutes). I said “I got it!” and she turned to all smiles. Some beach goers had overheard the conversation after and walked over to express their mutual gratitude for recovering the newly wed couple’s lost ring.

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Lost palladium wedding ring, (recovered) Niles, Michigan (Cass County)

  • from Granger (Indiana, United States)
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Andrew was doing spring clean up in his yard, tending to the flower beds and lanscaping. When he removed his glove, his palladium wedding ring went flying in an unknown direction. He thought it likely went into one certain area, but searching there only produced aluminum scrap(flashing) from the home’s construction and a couple pop can pull tabs. I broadened the search area, moving into the small wood lot in the opposite direction where I was finding pop cans and more junk pieces. I got a promising signal in a leaf pile, which ended up being a chipmunk hole entry point. Dug around in the hole with my pinpointer and long behold, the ring had went down the chipmunk hole!

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Lost wedding ring (lost for 9 years, recovered), Lake Manitou, Rochester Indiana

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Alan had lost his tungsten wedding band nine years ago, in Lake Manitou, Rochester Indiana. He was helping with the yearly tradition of intalling the cottage dock sections on Memorial Day weekend. While he was holding the second pier section in place, he adjusted his grip and the ring plopped in the waist deep water, vanishing in the rocks and soft bottom. Alan had lost some weight due to a medical condition, so the ring fit very loosely. He had no idea that lost rings/etc could be found in the water, until just recently when he stumbled across the Ringfinders website.
After an hour of searching, finding many other targets and lots of glass shards, it was looking grim. My tenacity paid off though, finally sorted out a mixed signal and scooped up a couple rusty nails along with his tungsten wedding ring! The ring had some cosmetic damage from being in the water, but Alan was very glad to be reunited with his long lost ring!

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Lost gold wedding ring, Lake Michigan (recovered), Harbert Michigan

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Tony and his family were at his aunt’s lake home for the weekend. It was time to enjoy some time in the chilly Lake Michigan water. Tony and his brother got the kayaks out and headed down to the beachfront area to get in the wavy water and paddle off. After a large wave or two, Tony found himself capsized, missing his sunglasses and wedding ring! He recruited family members to help search the knee deep area, but was only able to locate the sunglasses. He knew he had capsized straight out from the steps on the hillside and was shallower than waist deep.
Luckily, he had a accurate location of loss and there was a short break in the weather and waves for searching.
After less than five minutes, I got a great sounding promising signal and had his lost ring in my new scoop!

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