We got a call to go find a lady’s silver ring that flew off her hand while swatting at a insect in her yard. It was a small area to look so it was an easy recovery. Found with our pin pointer in the center of some pampas grass and had worked its way all the way to the bottom of the plant. 🙂
Farrah lost her Tiffany Ring while playing fetch with her dog. It was highly sentimental and a special gift to herself. Watch the video for the full story and a priceless reaction.
August 15, 2024
Brendan was enjoying a sunny day at the beach, his 39th year in doing so, when his wedding band slipped from his finger. After failing to find the ring he reported the loss to the gate guard who gave him my card, name and number. A text to me followed. Brendan’s was one of two requests I received within 30 minutes. I answered both with the same: first to respond will have their choice of day for me to help.
Brendan was the second one, Thursday would be the day set for the search. Detecting partner Leighton was off from work both days and we both would be helping search for the lost ring. We met Brendan on the parking lot, exchanged a few words dawned our gear, and headed to the water stopping to meet Brendan’s wife and 3 sons. Then as usual we had Brendan enter the water and stand just where he remembered loosing his ring. We started searching parallel to the beach from where Brendan was standing toward the beach and I to deeper water. About 20 feet from Brendan, Leighton dug his first signal and there was the platinum ring we were in search of.
A very joyful Brendan wanted to pull the ring from the scoop only to be told “wait”. The three of us headed to Chrissy and their 3 curious children. In the presence of everyone, Brendan retrieved the ring and put it back on his finger. Congratulations, pictures and exchange of info followed. For Leighton and myself, we were off to another beach to search for a missing engagement ring.
August 14, 2024
Any chance you are available for a search? Was one of two requests I received within 30 minutes. I answered both with the same: first to respond will have their choice of day for me to help.
The days and times are: Wednesday 11am-2pm or Thursday noon to 6pm for low tide and the ability to search in the water. Let me know if either works for you… The reply was that “Wednesday works for us! Hannah & Jamin”.
Detecting partner Leighton was off from work and we both would be helping search for the lost ring.
All four of us met up in the parking lot. Leighton and I with our detecting gear, Jamin with fishing gear and Hannah ready to supervise and perhaps take a swim. As usual we started by looking for the pile shells marking the beach were they were a few days ago. Well the tides have spread the pile so we started detecting an area suggested by Jamin. A few minutes later Hannah signals us she had found the pile of shells. OK, we moved the search over to an area 50 or so feet along the beach. After a bit of searching the width of the search area widened and to everyone’s amazement the is found closer to the original area where we started searching. Memory is a wonderful thing and it is good, but a physical marking is better. That is why we suggest dropping a few metal objects where a ring or other object is lost. With a few targets to look for we would know that we were in the correct area.
A few photos for the book of smiles, a bit of story telling as each story has it’s own lesson to be learned and then the ThankYou and now the fishing was going to start as Leighton and I left to look for another lost ring. I don’t know how the fishing endeavor ended, but I do know Jamin with a bit of luck did hook onto two metal detectorists that are always willing to help and that made the day a day to remember.
August 11, 2024
I can not count the times I have heard the words “I lost a ring of emotional significance yesterday.” and ”Thank you again so much Rick! It was great to meet you and so magical that you found the ring…!
Those words along with many others are why I enjoy my hobby so much.
Sarah was enjoying the art of teasing the incoming waves as they swept the slope of on of Cape Cod’s many fabulous beaches. The thrill was shortened when a ring slipped off her finger and beneath the beach’s sand.
Back at her grandfather’s home she searched the web for ways to find a lost ring. Her search was answered when she came across TheRingFinders.com article. She followed the link and contacted me. Of course I would search for the ring at the next day’s low tide.
With no other option on where to park, I parked in front of grandfather’s home. Sarah was right there as I exited the car. A short conversation was followed by a quick walk to the beach where Sarah showed me “where” the ring was lost. With that information I started my search pattern at the water’s edge working my way up the slope of the beach. Nothing! Maybe it is in the water, time to get wet. Four passes and nothing again. Enter Baron…”I’m pretty sure you should be looking over here.” That was some 20 feet away from the area I had been searching.
As I was in the water I worked my way up the beach going toward the dry sand. I was almost out of the water when my first signal proved to be a pull tab. Three swings later another, larger signal, I had to dig it. Yes, this one was the ring.
You can use your imagination on the excitement and joy that followed, not only by Sarah and Baron, but all those on the beach that had been watching me. Some had no idea what I was doing until they saw and heard the emotions shown by Sarah. That is my “reward” for enjoying my hobby, what could be better? Certainly not hitting a small white ball, chasing it so you can hit it again then watching it splash into a water hole and disappearing out of sight.
Next, of course, would be words of thanks, pictures, a few stories, and ways to wear a ring to the beach with no fear of having it slip off one’s finger.
Amber found my number on The Ringfinders web page. She had lost her engagement ring on Cocoa Beach after dark. She met me at sunrise and I hunted the search area. I was able to find her ring. Another happy ending thanks to The Ringfinders!!
Back where it belongs
I received a call from a party that mentioned that he and his wife had taken their rings off to not loose them when they were going into a lake swimming. The rings were put into the pocket of a swim suit. Later after coming out of the water both, his and her rings were missing. These folk where in Minnesota staying at a vacation rental on a lake about 65 miles north of St. Paul. They went home back to Milwaukee totally heartbroken. They had no idea how to find the rings and contemplated buying a metal detector and driving back to find the rings. Following doing some research they came across the ring finders web site and found my name. They called and were quite surprised that there was people that look for lost rings on the internet. They were even more surprised to find someone that could go up and look for the rings and they did not have to go back to Minnesota to recover their rings.
There was another group on the property and we had to wait.until they left before searching. But eventually the property was vacated and I went in and searched for the rings. It took about 3 hours and many signals that you find in lakes. Bottle caps, fishing lures and weights, old beer cans and old bait cans. But I finally got a hit that was strong and clean. I knew it was a ring before scooping it up. Yes, it was his ring. I found one of the two missing rings. I continued to search really hitting the area that I found the one hoping that they fell out together. But no luck. So I finished up out in the water and swept the yard and again came up empty. While it was not the perfect outcome, I can always go back and try again and see if I can get lucky one more time. Congratulations on getting 1 of 2 back.
One Recovered Ring
Item recovered August 13, 2024. Neena had reached out in the afternoon about a ring she lost in the conservation area behind her house. I arranged a call later that evening to get a better understanding of the area and circumstances of her loss.
Neena said she had lost her ring while enjoying the quiet area behind her house back in November, 2023. She wasn’t exactly sure where it was lost, and the area where she was standing was small in size. She had looked for it herself, but wasn’t able to locate it. In addition, the neighbor had recently constructed a fence and she was worried the ring may have been found by the workers, or possibly lost in the small pond with all the rain we received from Hurricane Debbie.
She also mentioned that this particular ring had a high sentimental value to her as it was given to her by a life-long friend who had recently passed away. It was very important to have this ring returned!
I met Neena at her house the following day after work and surveyed the area. Because of the fencing, it was necessary to use a step ladder to be able to get over the fence in the back, which stood approximately four feet tall. I grabbed my equipment and used Neena’s ladder to scale over the fence into the conservation area.
Once over the fence, I started detecting near the ferns, where she said she spent much of her time when she lost the ring. I immediately got a loud signal with a high VDI, similar to how a silver item would sound. Upon digging the item from the ground, it turned out to be a crushed-up soda can.
I slowly moved toward the pond, thoroughly covering the area about 15-20 feet away from the ferns. I found additional garbage-worthy items, but not the ring we were looking for. I returned to the fence to Neena to again discuss where she was on the day she lost the ring. She mentioned she also walked along the edge of the pond to where it turns left and so I started back out to search the edge of the pond.
Approximately five feet past where I had stopped earlier, and on the very edge of the pond, I had another signal on the metal detector that sounded like silver. It was the ring! It must have been pushed into the ground by about 1/2″ (perhaps by someone stepping on it, or being run over by a lawn mower tire). I turned around and yelled « Neena! I found the ring! » I probably should have verified it was the one we were looking for so as not to get her hopes up, but it matched the description and found in the loss location. We hadn’t even had a chance to thoroughly clean it off yet, but she put it back on her finger and it fit perfectly.
Neena was overcome with emotion and very thankful I was able to help return this ring to her.
I got a text Sunday morning from Bill who told me he lost his gold and diamond wedding ring in the ocean on Saturday afternoon at Huntington Beach . I called him right away to get the details. He was visiting from New Jersey he was in the ocean with his wife about waist deep, when a wave knocked her off balance when she grabbed for his hand to avoid falling, his ring slipped off his finger and into the surf, another wave came along and covered up the ring which prevented him from retrieving it. After the whole family searched for the ring with no luck. He texted me. We arranged to meet at 6 am on Monday morning at low tide, with the best chances of finding the ring. I got up at 3 am, so I could get ready and leave early to beat the morning rush hour traffic. I arrived before 5 am. It was still dark out, but I walked onto the beach to the spot Bill had described and began my grid search. I hunted for almost 2 hours with no luck. I walked back to my car to grab my phone and touched base with Bill. He was only 20 minutes away, I waited in the parking lot till he arrived, when Bill and his wife met me in the parking lot, we walked out to the beach together, so they could narrow down the location of the loss. In less than 25 minutes, I got a good signal and dug 3 scoops and there was Bill’s sparkly gold ring. They were ecstatic to have the ring back with lots of emotion and hugs. They never thought they would see his ring again, but they entrusted me with the task. I was happy to come through for them. They were such incredibly nice people. I was happy to be able to reunite them with their sentimental wedding ring. They were so nice, they took me for a delicious breakfast before my long drive home.
I received a call from Angel who had lost this 14 karat gold wedding band that had belonged to her late mother, while giving her dog a quick rinse in First Machias Lake at the end of her camping trip in unorganized Township – 36 . Normally this would be a 6 hour round trip, but luckily I happened to be spending the weekend at my in-laws camp in Pembroke about an hour and half away although 9 miles of the journey was to be on dirt logging roads. Racing the sunset, I travelled to the campsite and located the ring fairly quickly.
