I got a call about a lost platinum ring with a large diamond. It was lost at night close to high tide in the water. I knew low tide was coming up and it would probably be dry in that area when I arrived. My friend Gene was already down there and he helped me search for the ring. After 2 hours I got a hit in the range I thought it would be. BAM! The video will be on Gigmaster on youtube!
I received a call from Dustin who was vacationing with his family in Narragansett. While enjoying a day at the beach two days earlier, Dustin realized he had forgotten to take his wedding ring off, so he stashed it in their beach bag. After returning from the beach, Dustin’s wife emptied the beach bag and shook out the sand in the backyard. Later that day, Dustin asked his wife if she had his platinum wedding ring. This is when they realized that the ring was in the backyard or had fallen out at the beach. Dustin and his wife searched the grass but had no luck. I searched the backyard and found the ring in about 10 minutes. I held the ring up and asked them « how does it feel? » They couldn’t believe the ring was found and how quickly. I’m so glad I was able to help this nice couple
I received a call on Tuesday, July 20th, from a nice couple, Francesca and Sharon. They had only recently got engaged, and Sharon lost her engagement ring, a lovely antique ring, a few days earlier. They were at Colt State Park for a day of fun. While swimming, Sharon’s ring fell off in the water. They searched for the ring for a few days but couldn’t find it. That’s when they decided to look for help on the internet and found my profile on TheRingFinders website, I went to the park the same day they contacted me, but I couldn’t get out far enough into the water as it was high tide. I met Francesca at the park three days later when it was low tide to continue the search. After two hours of searching, I located the ring. Francesca was amazed that the ring was found after being in the ocean for five days. She couldn’t wait to put the engagement ring back on Sharon’s hand.
August 19th I get a phone call from an out of Province phone number, it is Peter and he has lost his wedding ring at East Sooke Park Beach.
We arranged to meet at about 7PM Peter told me his family was on the sandy beach and as they left he shook out the towels. Soon after he noticed no wedding ring. They were visiting from Calgary Alberta and were heading home on Saturday.
I arrived and Peter showed me the area with an X on the beach. I started the search and within 5 minutes I had Peter’s ring back.
I love my job.
I had a call yesterday from Mike who lost his Rose Gold wedding band during a family outing on West Wittering beach in West Sussex earlier in the week , we agreed to meet at the beach very early this morning , Mike showed me the area they were sitting , helpfully he had photos of the area , within two minutes of turning on my ATMax detector I had my first target which read 49 on the meter and 1” deep , I moved the coil and the edge of a rose gold ring was exposed, I asked Mike if he had a photo of his wedding band , which he showed me on his phone , I then asked him if this his wedding ring , a quick check on the inscription inside confirmed it was indeed Mikes precious wedding band , another overjoyed person reunited with their very precious wedding band thanks to ringfinders .
Helena took off her rings and put them in a pair of shorts she was carrying. While running down the beach, she accidentally dropped the shorts in the dry sand. She picked them back up and continued running down the beach not realizing that her rings had fallen out. When she discovered they were gone, she tried to visually find them by retracing her steps, but, they had sunk out of sight. She lives in another state and had to return home without them. A few days later, she got my contact info and called me and explained the situation. That beach is one of our most detected beaches in the whole area, so, there was always a possibility that the rings had already been found by someone, since it had already been 5 days, but, the search area wasn’t in the most popular areas, so, still a chance. Working by just a map with a large area circled, I knew this might take a while. Helena sent me a photo of the rings on her fingers, so, I had a good visual of what the rings should look like. The two rings she described were a class ring, and a ring with a T shaped top with stones. I headed to the site that night, so I had the place to myself and didn’t have to dodge around people and miss detecting some spots. After about 10 minutes on my first pass, I got a call for a lost set of keys, on the same beach, but, about 3/4 mile away. I went ahead and hiked over to help get the keys, which took about 5 minutes to find. With that lady happy and able to get into her car and take her child and 2 dogs home, I hiked back to my ring search location. Sorry, I didn’t get any photos of that successful hunt. Everyone was in a hurry, so, it just didn’t happen. It’s now about 10pm. A resumed making passes about 100 yards long and after about another hour, I get yet another pull tab reading and find a 10K gold class ring. Alright, now we’re talking! About a foot away, I get another signal. This time it’s an 18K Tiffany « Love » ring. Hmmm, that wasn’t on her list. Another signal close by and I find another 18K Tiffany ring. Still not a match for the one she identified, but, it looked familiar. I pulled out my phone to take another look at the photo she sent me, and lo and behold, those two rings were also on her hand in the photo! There were 5 rings on her hand, but, she had only mentioned the two. Strange. I continued detecting right around that spot and the next target was the 2nd ring she had described, also an 18K Tiffany ring. One last target and I found the last ring, one with a blue stone…..also 18K Tiffany ring. Wow, what an « Olympic » hunt! 5 rings and 4 of them Tiffany. I texted Helena and asked her if she had just lost two rings, or, all 5. She then admitted that it was all 5, just as I thought. Helena was now happy, but, had to find someone to pick up the rings, as she didn’t want them shipped. Now, a couple of weeks later, a friend of her’s came to pick them up. Thanks for the reward.
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Ocean City NJ Patch Lost Wedding Band Worn 47 years lost then Found!
Lynn contacted me about her husband’s wedding ring that fell off his finger while cranking the wheel on the their boat lift. The ring had also been Lynn’s father’s ring, so it was extra sentimental them. We discussed a time frame yesterday and I went up there this afternoon to search. I brought an underwater tube-lens contraption (for viewing bottom/etc), the usual detector, backup detectors, scoops, pinpointers and also my scuba gear. The water visibility was as bad as I expected (murky/sediment), so the view tube was a no go. The pier and lift station was a maze of metal with large metal pads on the bottom. I opted to start with detector and scoop. Found a multitude of undesirable « trash » targets, cans, nuts, bolts, coins, pier post caps, etc, etc, but no ring. Obviously, the detector can’t « see » when near the metal frame parts, posts and pads. After an hour and a half with detector and scoop, I had to move to the anticipated Plan-B, scuba gear and pinointers, for working close to the framework. I used my fancy little gear cart to bring everything out to the dock site. After dawning the gear, I went to put the mask on and CRACK (the strap fixture broke). Not really wanting to dismount the gear and get repair stuff from the truck, I MacGyver’d the mask strap with a piece of wire I had just dug up and had in the floating sifter, worked perfect, back in business. I searched and searched with pinpointers, all around the metal structures and post pads, still no ring. I was getting worried now and wondering maybe it wasn’t in the water. I noticed the pier had metal supports under the slotted walkway with a channel big enough to catch a ring. I checked all the channels, no ring. Now I was thinking about the two frame parts, that I saw from above, that had holes big enough for a ring to fall into and no way to really check.Then I thought, maybe, maybe the the last place that ring could be was actually laying on one of the metal post pads, where the pinpointer nor metal detector would see it. I started moving the inch of sand/dirt/sediment off the pads and checking that with pinpointer. On the second pad, doing the same, I felt my finger tip go into what really felt like a ring. Bingo, that was it!
Corey and his family were spending a day at the beach. He put his wedding ring in his pocket for safe keeping, only to discover later that his pocket had a hole in it and the ring was gone! This wasn’t the first wedding ring he’s lost, so, he had to endure another tongue lashing from his wife. a couple of days later, Corey searched online, found TheRingFinders.com website, got my contact information, and gave me a call. We met at the beach about 45 minutes later where he showed me the search area in the dry sand where they were camped last Saturday. I started a grid in the most likely spot and expanded out from there. In about 15 minutes or so, Corey was going to head up to his car, but, at that moment, I got a nice « 14 » pull tab sound on my Equinox, and out came Corey’s ring from the sand. A happy Corey now gets to go home and move his belongings out of the dog’s house and back in the family’s house! A pleasure to meet you Corey and thank you for the reward.
John & Sophie arrived at their North Topsail, NC beach house one day prior for a family vacation with great views and weather. John had taken his wedding band of many years off to swim in the ocean. The beach chairs were moved a few times because of the incoming tide and were eventually folded up and returned to the house. John called me later that afternoon the ask if I could be of assistance. Upon arrival John showed me the boundaries for my search. There were very little signs of metal in the sand and at one point, I wondered if I had the correct search settings. After a crusty penny, my next signal was a strong soda tab signal. This time it was just the opposite! John’s white gold wedding band was peaking up from the sand after my first try to brush the sand away from the target. If I remember correctly, I think John said « well how about that! » John told the neighbors that he didn’t need to sleep outside tonight!