Lost – Men’s Gold Wedding Ring, Southern Shores, Outer Banks, OBX, NC – FOUND!!!
On Sunday, I got a FB message from Linda. She explained that her husband, Steve, had lost his wedding ring while doing some work on their property in Southern Shores. I gave her a call and we arranged for me to come over the following day. It seemed like it would be an easy hunt.
The next day when I arrived, I met Linda and Steve. They took me a spot near the garage where Steve had been cutting and stacking firewood. The area was covered with leaves and a few pallets of wood. When I fired up the XP Deus II, all I heard was noise. I quickly found out the area I was searching had underground power lines and electromagnetic interference (EMI) which made it nearly impossible to search.
I tried the standard noise canceling and frequency changes, but nothing worked. I spent about an hour searching and found the usual cans, trash, and yard debris. I left disappointed and not knowing if I could ever find the lost ring.
A few days later, I hijacked my wife’s gold wedding ring, I found an area in my yard with similar EMI and made some changes to my program to be able to filter out the interference. VOILA, it worked!
On Thursday, I called Linda and told her that I’d like to come out tomorrow and try again…she agreed. When I arrived, I activated the changes and began the search. Shortly thereafter, I got a great hit…it was a piece of foil. A short time later, another hit. I removed some leaves and found the ring buried in less than an inch of dirt!
I took the ring to the house and presented it to Steve. The ring that had been so dear to the couple for 44 years was home!
Steve called me asking if I could find a ring. Steve’s wife lost her new anniversary ring while doing some yard work at their home in Navarre. Their backyard has a lush landscape with a thick carpet of grass where a ring could easily fall in and be hard to locate. In addition there property bordered a forested area with fairly thick understory vegetation. They didn’t know where the ring was lost, so Steve and I recreated their activity as best he could remember. First I carefully searched the grass areas with no luck. Next was going into the shrub plantings, also no luck. Then I expanded the search area assuming the backyard was the most likely place to look since that’s where she was working, no luck strike 3. In desperation I decided to look in the forested area bordering their backyard. I started a north/south grid about 5’ wide. There were no targets in the understory, clean ground with no metal in it. So when I got a signal it screamed, the sound was unmistakable, the sound of gold! Somehow the ring had left her finger and traveled about 15’ into the woods. I never met Steve’s wife because she was working that day but Steve called her and she was overjoyed. Ring recovered, everyone smiling, no more worries, made my day!
