Wedding Ring Lost in Springville, IA…Found
Cuyler and Eden live out of state, but they are in Iowa visiting family for the holiday weekend. It’s been pretty hot in Iowa lately, and a friendly water balloon fight began among family members to help ease the summer heat. However, sometime during the family fun, Eden lost her diamond wedding ring. Her hands had gotten wet so she shook the water off of them, and then she soon realized that her ring was missing. Today, July 4th, I received a call on her husband, Cuyler. Cuyler told me the story and asked if I would be able to look for his wife’s ring on the holiday. I told Cuyler that I would drive up to Springville and find Eden’s ring.
I arrived at the rural family homestead and met with Cuyler and Eden. I was shown the approximate area where the ring was believed to have been lost. Cuyler had marked out the area for me with landscape flags. The family had performed a visual search, but with the recent rainfall the grass had begun to grow again, and I was certain the ring would be found in the taller grass.
I got my equipment together and began my standard grid pattern search. After about 30-45 minutes of searching, I got a nice solid tone on my Equinox 800. I pinpointed the location and used my Garrett carrot to zero me in on the object in the grass. I spread the grass blades apart and saw a nice shiny diamond ring facing skyward with the stone sparkling like fireworks. I retrieved the ring and reunited it with Eden and her expression of gratitude will not be soon forgotten.
Ally called and said her husband lost his wedding ring about an hour prior, throwing a football down by the waters edge with his son. She knew the general area and had it marked well, but was concerned because the tide was rising, and there was a rough surf from the south east winds that were blowing. I told her I could be there in about 30 minutes, and rather than waiting for the next low tide, we needed to get moving ASAP, or it would most likely get pulled down past the drop off where it would get buried and out of reach of my machine. When I arrived Ally and Tom discussed how the ring flew off, and that she had briefly seen it while looking, but the waves made it quickly disappear. There was quite a huge audience of sunbathers watching, as I started my search in waste deep water, figuring that was the most likely spot the ring would have settled. The waves were making this a very challenging recovery, but in just a short while the ring was in my scoop. All eyes were on me and I knew I had to get it on the first scoop, or it would possibly slide down below the drop-off. I walked up out of the waves, held up the scoop, and Ally, Tom, and their family were shocked, along with the audience patiently waiting to see the ring. Another fantastic recovery. 
