Seabright Beach Gives Back 2 Lost Heirloom rings

The call came in and it was a classic story I’ve heard numerous times. Two rings were taken off and put in the beach chair cup holder while sunscreen was applied and then forgotten about. Later the chair was packed up and the rings were flung out into the sand. This was good news to me as I could be certain that the rings were lost at that location. This along with the fact that the owner said they knew right where they were sitting led me to believe that this should prove to be a gimme. I arrived at Seabright beach early the next morning to meet the owner and do the search. I had parked approx. 1/8th mile North up the beach from the location and proceeded to head South down the beach to our agreed meeting spot. I was early and I decided I was going to get my machine running and swing my coil on the walk down … and that’s when things got strange. Now the owner had not given me any information about the rings supposed location beyond the beach name and that it was more towards the South end. I had an 1/8th mile of beach that is also 100+ yards wide and I was just randomly working my way South zig zagging back and forth mostly just warming up my joints as well as finding pretty much nothing. After about 30 minutes I was still about 50 yards from our meeting spot when I got a solid signal that I thought might be a nickel. I scooped into the sand, sifted and looked into the scoop and my jaw dropped. There, in the bottom of the scoop was a heavy, silver toned ring with a large solitaire diamond set in it. At first I thought I had just gotten lucky and found another ring by chance but when I reached in and turned it over it closely matched the description of one of the rings I had come to search for, a triple banded, platinum ring with a large solitaire diamond along with smaller diamonds running down the bands. I absolutely could not believe I had stumbled across the rings I was there to hunt for but after another couple passes I located the silver Irish claddagh ring close by and I knew that’s exactly what I had done. I was numb. When the owners arrived I was happy to reunite them with their rings and told them the story. I was told that the large solitaire diamond was an ancestral heirloom handed down to them and the silver claddagh ring was a promise ring given 25 years earlier, they were both heirlooms and very special to the owners. It was at that point that I realized what I truly believe had happened. The odds were astronomical against doing what I had done and I believe there was more going on beyond pure blind luck. I may have been holding the detector but it was also not my skill that found those rings. I was searching by myself but I was not alone. We had help and the rings went home to where they belong. It was an incredible day I will remember forever. peace