Jon was preparing to play volleyball when he placed his sentimental necklace in a bag for safe keeping. On the journey from the beach house to the shoreline beach, the necklace slipped out of the bag and hide in the soft sand. A phone call to me later that evening was to request to rent a metal detector. After I explained that I search for lost items, Jon wanted me to come out as soon as possible. With the use of flashlights I started searching and finding many bottle caps in the process. Finally my coil swung over Jon’s necklace and I sifted the sand through my fingers to lift up his lost treasure.
I received a phone call from Diane asking for my help in finding her lost rings on the beach in Ocean City, Maryland between 143rd and 144th streets. Diane told me that she and her family had been vacationing in Ocean City, Maryland and that while they were on the beach on 08/10/18 she had lost her two wedding rings. Diane said that she had sat down in a beach chair at edge of the water where the waves were breaking and that she fell asleep. Diane said that when she woke up her left hand was laying on the wet sand and that her two wedding rings were missing from her left hand. On 08/14/18, I went to the beach where Diane had lost her rings and began a search for them. Diane had also mentioned that she had been sitting in an area of dry sand prior to going down to the water and she was really unsure of where she had lost the two rings. I did search an area of dry sand based on Diane’s memory of where she had been on the beach that day and the two rings were no where to be found. I then decided to search an area closer to the waters edge and after several passes I was able to recover the lost wedding band. I then knew that the engagement ring should be somewhere close to where the wedding band had been found. I then adjusted my search to an area about a foot away from where I found the band and a little closer to the water. The search adjustment was a success and I was able to locate the engagement ring. After returning home I sent Diane a text with a photo of her two rings and they were identified as being her lost rings. Diane requested that I keep her rings until 08/22/18 and on that date I turned the recovered rings over to Diane’s daughter who had driven to Bethany Beach, Delaware for a day of fun in the sun.
I received an email from Samantha stating that, the day after they were married, she and her husband Brian went to Muskegon State Park where he lost his new wedding ring. She spent most of that day looking for it on the beach with a borrowed metal detector with no luck and that it may have been lost in the water. She had pretty much lost hope of finding it, but if I’d like to try looking she would meet me at the State Park the next day.
After giving me an idea of the approximate location the ring may have fallen off, I set out to do a grid search in Lake Michigan. It took close to an hour but in about waist deep water I finally saw gold in my scoop! What a beautiful ring. Another happy ending and another picture for my Book of Smiles 🙂
I was at work when I received a phone call from a gentleman who told me that his daughter had lost her ring at the park. He asked if I could help her, I said of course, I asked him to have his daughter call me so I can discuss the search time and place.
After talking to Sabrina for approximately 10 minutes in regards to her lost ring, I felt confident we would find it. I also knew how important it was to find because it was gifted to her by her late grandmother, this ring meant the world to her! I could hear it in her voice!
I arrived at 9 PM on the side of the street where I met Sabrina and her father, we walked to the park and she show me what had happened and where she was sitting when the ring came off her finger. I did a reenactment and watch my ring land on the sidewalk, this made me think if they hadn’t checked the sidewalk someone may have already found it. Sabrina was very confident that she saw the ring bounce up off the pavement and go into the bushes along the side of the walkway.
I started my search and after close to an hour and a half and no ring I decided to look under the bench that she was sitting on, to my surprise there was her beautiful gold ring! It was very dark so I put the ring in my hand and told them I needed to go back to my car and get another metal detector.
I did this because it was so dark I knew I wouldn’t be able to get the footage of her smile and reaction when I surprised her with the ring… When we got to the car I started up my camera and videotaped her by asking a couple of questions about the ring and the search.
I love getting the reactions of people for the first time when they see their ring… it’s priceless!!
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One of my students was walking his dog in a field and noticed his ring was missing. He called me, and I covered the area he thought he had lost his ring in for an hour with no luck. So, I widened the search and found it 10 feet from where it was accidentally flicked off! Gold rings are heavy, and they do fly! From frowns to smiles in no time!
Richard called me to say that he accidentally lost his wife Simone’s gold ring in the sand at Ocean Beach, She had given him the ring so that she wouldn’t go into the ocean with it and lose it! Richard had it on his pinky when the unthinkable happened and it ended up in the dry sand. Never fear, The Ring Finders are here! I grabbed my gear, asked the wife to come along in case there wasn’t any parking, and headed out the door. Turns out there was plenty of parking, so, my wife and I went over and met Richard and Simone. We got the story and the approximate search area where I went to work. Not 30 seconds later, I get a nice solid 9 on my Equinox 800. Poked my TRX pin pointer into the sand and chased a signal for a few seconds until I cornered it and pulled a pretty little gold ring back into the sunlight. A relieved Richard and a happy Simone were now able to enjoy the rest of the day. A pleasure to meet you and thank you for the reward.
Christian was spending a beautiful day on the beach with his 9 month old along his side. For safe keeping, Christian placed his wedding ring in one of his shoes that he had removed. Seeing that his little one needed attention, he leaned over to tend to his child when his foot kicked and accidentally kicked the shoe containing the ring.
After failing to locate the ring is the soft sand, he resorted to the internet and called me to assist. I sensed an urgency in his voice and headed to his location promptly. Christian showed me the lines in the sand I asked him to mark the boundaries of where he believed the ring to be located. Starting in the middle of his box it was only a couple of search lines before his ring spoke to my detector. As the sand sifted through my fingers his wedding ring appeared.
Erika and her family were visiting the cape from Canada, they were staying a very short walk from a private beach in Eastham. While sitting in her beach chair in the water her ring came off her finger and buried in the sand in about 1ft of water . I received a text from her around 1030pm on aug 26 but my phone was in my truck, Monday morning came around and I responded to her when I got to work and we made arrangements to meet after I got out of work. I got to the house they were staying at around 6pm we walked to the beach and about 10 minutes later the ring was back on her finger
Not all items recovered are valuable in the sense of monetary value. Often, an item has more sentimental value then anyone could imagine. I received a call from Sandra earlier in the day about a 14k white gold charm that was lost in the sand while she and her sister were on the beach in Strathmere, New Jersey. The charm belongs to her sister, Bonnie, who was able to find the chain with the other two charms but not the moon. Each charm is very special to both sisters because they represent their mother, father & Jesus. Sandra called me without her sister knowing because she didn’t want Bonnie to know if the charm was not found. After I gridded out the approximate location where they were sitting yesterday and after a quick search with the Minelab Equinox 800, the charm gave a signal and was in the scoop!
I got a text message from Rod asking if my equipment could find a hearing aid that had been lost in the grass. I have found hearing aids before, so I told him I thought I could. I asked him to meet me at the church where it was lost, and to bring a similar hearing aid so I could hear how it sounded, so I would know what to listen for to find the lost one. Unfortunately, his hearing aids were very small, and my detector would hardly make a peep when passing over the spare he brought. That meant that I could probably not find his lost one. I spent several minutes searching, but finally decided that my equipment just wasn’t sensitive enough to tell the difference between the tiny hearing aid and the random specks of garbage metal spread all over the church lawn. I told Rod that I probably couldn’t find it. I hate giving up, so a spent maybe an hour searching the whole lawn where it might have been lost, methodically going back and forth to search every square inch. As I detect, I keep my eyes on the ground, watching for anything that might be there. I found the tiny hearing aid with my eyes, rather than my detector! As I swung slowly back and forth, there was the hearing aid, hiding in the grass. Rod was happy to have his expensive hearing aid back!
