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Carol contacted me through the ring finders web site. She was picking up rocks in the water near her dock and throwing them onto shore . I believe it was for a landscape project. A few hours later, she noticed her wedding ring was missing. The only thing that made any sense, it must of slipped off in the water. I arrived at Carols lake home and we discussed where around the dock would be the best area to search. I dawned my scuba gear and jumped in.  It only took 10 minutes or so and I heard a great hit on my metal detector – The water visibility was terrible, so I grabbed a hand full of sand and rocks and waved in front of my detector. The object was in my hand. Slowly removing the other debris and brining my hand right up to my eyes, I saw the twinkling of the diamond. What an awesome feeling to find a lost valuable like this. Congrats Carol!

14 years ago, Amber was styling a friends hair at her home in Minnesota. She took her rings off as usual, though this time, her 2 year old daughter saw that shiny diamond and decided it would be fun to play with. She went outside to her play area and returned with no ring(of-course)  – Now back to the present. Amber & her husband are having their yard scraped and re-graded in a week or so. Amber thought it would be a good idea to look one final time for that lost wedding ring before it is gone forever. She found me on the ring finders website and we set a day for the search. I was there for approx. a half hour collecting the usual suspects (pennies, foil, pop-tops etc.) when I got a familiar deep tone. I knew this hit had a good chance of being the ring, I dug about 2 1/2 inches down and there is was. Beautiful Gold Diamond ring. Shiny and bright as ever, just a little dirt on it. Please see the picture below of Mom and daughter 14 years after (the incident). Truly glad I could help you out Amber, and very nice to meet your family. Congrats!!!

Darrin G.

Andre Bilak, of Mequon, WI, was installing a vapor barrier in a crawl space when his wedding ring went missing. In his own words, “I was hand shoveling pea gravel… and after several hours of moving and replacing pea gravel I noticed I no longer had my wedding ring.”

It didn’t take me long to detect the area in question. I was 99.9% sure the ring was not where Andre thought it was. In questioning Andre further, he mentioned cleaning paint from his hands near a garden shed behind his house. I asked him to take me there. Sure enough, there lay his ring in the grass where it had fallen in front of the shed.

This is a case where forensic questioning paid off. A timeline of activities helps to narrow the search areas and led to investigation of an area Andre had not thought about.

So glad we were successful, Andre!

This one is very similar to the last post with the exception that Nate is a full time cape resident and he was throwing a football with his son…. Nate was down at mayflower beach with his son on Tuesday evening around 7pm they were throwing a football between the #2&#3 lifeguard stands in waist deep water, Nate went to catch the ball his son threw and the ball hit his hand just right that it knocked the ring right off of his finger. He contacted Eleanor from J&E metal detectors to see if he could rent a detector to try to find the ring but she had already rented her under water machine to Andre from my previous post. I called her yesterday to ask a question and she gave me Nate and andres phone number to see if I could help them out. I managed to get to Andre first which took all of 8 minutes then I beat Nate to mayflower to get the search going but had no luck at first, then Nate arrived and we narrowed the search area down to an area that was about 30x30ft but still no ring I kept thinking about the tide in cape cod bay which comes in approximately 6” 15 minutes which put us out a bit too far so we went in another 10 ft and boom a solid signal 2” down, one scoop later and there was Nate’s gigantic ring that I think most people could wear as a bracelet. We then exited the water and walked to the group of people who Nate left his phone with talked with them for a few minutes and learned about a ring on of them had lost on a Martha’s Vineyard beach 4 years earlier and plans will be made to search for that soon.

‘Anyways Nate’s ring was safe he and his wife were happy and I was too, we took a couple pictures of the ring then parted ways

andre and his family rented a small cottage on the water in Dennis port in between sea street beach and Glendon beach. While out playing catch with his daughters’  yesterday andres ring was knocked off his finger while catching the ball one of his daughters had thrown, he managed to rent a detector from Eleanor of J&E metal detectors and spent most of today looking through the rough waters of the small beach it came off in. He managed to find a good amount of trash but not his platinum ring, I called Eleanor to ask a question and she gave me andres number as well as a local man named Nate who also lost a platinum ring yesterday (I’ll get to that in the next blog post) I called and left a message with Andre who called me back 15 minutes later and gave me directions to him. Upon my arrival he gave me an approximate location to search, 2 targets and 8minutes later his ring was in my scoop and he was happy.

we talked for a few minutes afterwards and then I was off to find Nate’s ring which was a bit more time consuming but successful