Got a text from Sharon on Wednesday night saying that her engagement ring fell off while at her daughter’s soccer practice. We agreed to meet the following evening at the field, and within 10 minutes of being on the job, we were able to locate her ring. Tears of joy flowed – another satisfied customer of the AMDC.
Lydia sent me a message asking if I would be able to help find her husbands wedding ring that was lost in the ocean he day before. She explained the details and we set up a time to meet on the beach. After I arrived I found out some more interesting details, one being, they marked the area with an umbrella pole the day before, which was FANTASTIC due to the huge beach, the other, they had searched for quite some time with a metal detector and had no luck. Jeff was tossing a ball when his ring slipped off into the water, which was quite rough due to the storms offshore. With the waves breaking right around knee deep, I found the ring very close to the spot marked with the umbrella pole. Remarkable, nobody touched it over 24 hours later. njringfinder.com
My fellow Ring Finder friend, Jeff Wettstein received a voicemail on Tuesday, August 22nd, about 9:45 PM
from Judy sharing that her mother lost her wedding ring in the water by her lake home in Oconto County.
He called her that evening to learn the specifics like how was lost, where it was lost, asking
“Are you sure she lost the ring in the lake?…etc. Judy’s mother is 95 years young and still swims in the
lake with a pool noodle and does have some memory loss. Jeff learned that Judy’s brother from Virginia
was visiting and had been with their mother during the time she was swimming. He also learned the ring
was lost the last week of July…about 3 weeks before Jeff received the call to see if he would be willing to
do the recovery. Jeff was sent a picture of the ring. It turned out to be a two-ring set, wedding and engagement, soldered together, worn since 1955, which made it even more imperative to be found.
Jeff carefully searched the shallow area first for about 5 hours covering all he could before the water was over his head. He found all the usual suspects of junk, a few coins, and a mood ring. Jeff received more details from Judy’s brother on the path where “Mom” swam. He mentioned to Judy that he would come back another day and would dive for it.
Jeff then reached out to me and asked if I would be willing to participate in diving for the ring since it was not in shallow water. Jeff has a hookah pump and 60-foot hoses, so we don’t need SCUBA tanks, though we are both certified divers. The regulators and buoyancy compensator (bc) vests are the same as SCUBA, as well as the masks and weights. One person must stay « up top » to make sure the compressor is operating and the air hose is guarded from curious boaters and jet skiers.
The water was between 8 and 10 feet deep, and I was submerged at least two hours. I liked it down there, but was searching blind because the silt billowed up. It was all by feel and sound. I followed the white grid pvc pipe with one hand and pressed a metal detecting coil into the lake bed with the other, waving it back and forth. There weren’t many signals, but you have be thorough. After a few false alarms, a nail and a few cans, I heard a signal near the raft and started feeling for it in the silt with my fingers. The signal kept sinking through the pudding, then slowed it’s decent
Re-united!
The beautiful recovered ring set!
The dive team, mom, and daughter.
when it hit thicker layers of mud. I lost it twice, then it stabilized about 18 inches deep in some cold clay. I started grabbing for it and waving handfuls of clay over my coil, hoping the signal wouldn’t sink too deep to recover. Finally, my fist beeped, so I knew something was in there, and it felt like a ring set. I finned to the surface to examine the object in the sun, and there it was! Jeff presented it to the family. Everyone was smiling, so our day was made!
Received a text from Ian last week about him having lost his dive watch at the cottage. While swimming, he felt the watch come off his wrist and watched it sink in about 20+ feet of water. Unable to snorkel that deep to find his watch, he asked if I could come and dive and find it for him. Headed out to long lake, near Haliburton with my diving partner Larry. Within minutes, the watch was located and even a pair of sunglasses he had previously lost. Sadly, Ian could not be there during recovery. Another great day and recovery.
Labor Day ended on a depressing note for John, who lost his year-old wedding ring in chest-deep water a couple of hundred feet offshore. I received a call from him in early evening, asking if I was ‘the ring finder’ and if I could search for his ring. I of course said that I would, but it would have to be the next day as we were entertaining holiday guests. We met at the beach near low tide the following day and I did a 2-hour search in the area where John felt that he’d lost the ring. I called a halt as it was getting dark but I told John I’d be back the next day to expand the search area. On reflection, he thought maybe he’d been somewhat farther south when the ring slipped from his finger, so I planned to work that area when I returned. After about an hour of searching that area the next day, I got a sweet booming signal that cried out ‘RING’ and soon had John’s hefty wedding band in my scoop. With a call to John, we agreed to meet at the beach the next morning, and I had the great pleasure of being able to give John his beautiful ring and share in the joy of its return. Another great day for The Ring Finders!
John’s buttery gold ring.
Definitely a lead contender in the book of smiles.
John’s ring, back where it belongs.
The Ring Finders in San Diego California helped another couple find a lost wedding band in the sand,Who ya gonna call? Curtis Cox 760 889 2751
Kolacek and his wife recently were on vacation from Czech when they noticed there precious wedding band missing,They called me after finding my contact info online and I was able to meet them at Oceanside beach with in 20min including parking and walking down,,Needless to say,I was there very quickly.
The dry sand area were they believe it could be was a small 12’x12’ area to search,,I turned on my Metal Detector then Bamm,,Bamm A good strong signal revealed his Gold ring in less than a minute of scanning. They were so happy and relieved as you can see in the photo. This will definitely make their vacation more pleasant especially knowing now there is a Ring finder guy like myself worldwide available to help. “Spread the word we say!”
