Lost Wedding band recovered Minnesota Metal Detecting

Lake Minnetonka lost wedding band at a private dock. Recovered via the ring finders website. Congrats!

Lake Minnetonka lost wedding band at a private dock. Recovered via the ring finders website. Congrats!

Lost in the water at a private dock in northern Minnesota – Recovered via the ring finders website. Congrats!

Received a call from Leon that he lost his six month old white gold wedding band while playing Cricket in Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA.
Leon was visiting from Chicago along with some of his mates from New Zealand. They have been on a traveling Cricket tour visiting many different places. When Leon was fielding he decided to slip his wedding ring into his pocket. He said he was quite concerned that it might fall out of his pocket and indeed it did. After quite a bit of fuss searching through the grass and having no luck with a visual search he looked on line for additional help.
I am happy for him that he was able to reached out to me with a prompt call and wiling to provide a lot of detail from what he could remember of his incident.
Watch the story unfold in this video:

Cheers,
Jeff Morgan
SeattleRingHunter
I received a phone call from sisters Carissa and Ashley asking for help in finding their Mom’s lost ring in South Haven. Larry and Kathy rented a cabin on Lake Michigan for the coming week, and invited their daughters and their families to join them. Enjoying the scenery out on the deck, the sisters asked Mom to show them her new ring. In doing so the ring slipped through fingers, hit the wooden deck and disappeared. After renting a metal detector and finding only a few coins, the family decided to call me for help. Gregg Larabel and I hopped in the car right away and headed south for the search. On arriving at the cabin the family showed us the area and detailed how the ring was lost. Luckily we had about 3 to 4 feet of space under the deck to work in, and lots of nice beach sand to search in. After searching directly below the picnic table we moved out further, and several feet from the table I got a good signal on my metal detector. Using the Pinpointer to sweep over that area made the ring pop into view. Their Grandson was watching us and yelled out « they found it »! Needless to say the whole family was ecstatic on finding the ring. After a few pictures we headed for home knowing we had started their vacation off on a better note. 




This ring find began when I got a call last weekend from Kalei who lives in Wilhelmina on Oahu. While enjoying their stay-cation at the Marriott Beach Resort at Ko Olina she and her daughter Keiki went into the lagoon to enjoy the cool water and rather abruptly Keiki’s Gold Hawaiian ring slipped off in chest deep water and disappeared into the sand. Kalei immediately took landmarks to where they were in the water and Keiki’s father went ashore to get some goggles to see if he could spot the ring on the floor of the lagoon. The sand was too soft and the ring hid itself out of view. I went the following day after work but the tide was so high I couldn’t get very deep and going as far as I could I didn’t find the ring. I called Kalei and told her I would go back on the weekend during a low tide and see if I could find the precious ring. Sure enough the low tide was all I needed in chest deep water much farther and West from where I imagined I got a great tone on the Equinox. It took a few scoops as the target was getting pushed around in the fine sand. Finally on the 3rd scoop I looked in and there was Keiki’s beautiful ring at the bottom of my scoop. I texted Kalei and she was ecstatic and so happy the ring was found. We met later in the day and in the pic you can see the joy. Aloha to Keiki and her Mom!
I received a call yesterday from Laura R. referred to me by a fellow Ring Finder Tom Towsend, she lost a ring that was given to her from her grandmother through an aunt who both past away. Laura and her family are vacationing in a family home on Lake Michigan from Dallas, Texas. Saturday night after a party at the Yacht Club Laura was down on the dock with her brother securing their boat when she slipped into the water, while Laura’s brother was pulling Laura out of the water her ring slipped off her hand.
This morning my diving partner Greg Lewis and I went out to the boat dock and met Laura. After about and hour of searching in a very weedy lake the ring was recovered and returned to Laura’s finger. It was a pleasure meeting Laura and learning about her background as an artist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
8/3/2019
Another “needle in a haystack” search…
Got a call last Sunday morning while I was outside splitting firewood. There was a very sad sounding gentleman on the other end of the line. He had been out tubing on a large river here in Central Vermont, when he lost a very special ring. It was special for at least 2 large reasons, he had recently got engaged to the woman he wants to spend his life with and the ring had been handed down from his dad for the occasion.
He and his fiancee were on their way to go search the 1/2 mile stretch of river with goggles only. He asked me if it made any sense for me to come try with a metal detector. I told him I would love to come help. So, I closed down my wood splitting chores (gladly!), loaded my water searching equipment into the car, and hit the road.
I met them there about an hour later and they showed me the search area. At first I had those overwhelming thoughts about how huge the search area was, but the only thing to do was to get started and peck away at it as much as possible. I knew the odds were against me because there were some very deep areas and some quite fast areas, too.
That first day we searched for about 5 hours. I covered about 200 or 300 feet of the river, finding only scrap metal. Hopefully I saved a few feet from being cut on that scrap! They also had no luck. So we decided to give it another try on the following weekend. Sometime midweek, his fiancee went back with a friend to search, no luck.
Today I got there a little before them and got started on the search. I was searching in a bit of fast water just upstream from where they had told me they had beached their tube and left the river. I had a strong feeling that he might have lost it in this area because I figured he did some strong padding with his hands to cross the current there. After digging several signals with my scoop and dumping it out on the sandy bank, I got a real promising signal and scooped it up. When I dumped this one on the sand, I saw a beautiful gold ring in the pile! What an awesome feeling, I couldn’t wait for them to arrive so I could hand it to him!
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I received a call from Dillan about him loosing his college graduation ring in Sand banks Provincial park. The evening prior, him and his girlfriend were playing frisbee at this beach, when the ring flew off her finger. He’d given it to her as a promise ring. After a short pontoon ride and a couple hours of water metal detecting in waist water deep, I was able to reunite him with his beloved ring that his mom had given him for his graduation ceremony. Great seeing his reaction and another happy ending.


I got a call from Steve, saying he lost his gold chain in Lake Michigan 5 days ago at the beach at Tunnel Park. Fellow Ringfinder Gregg Larabel and I drove out there with the idea that his chain had already been found, or was now too deep to find after 5 days of pounding from big waves on the big lake. But Steve’s son met us at the park and gave us good directions on where to look. He said Steve was about waist deep in the water when he lost the chain. We set up a couple of poles (markers) out into the water and started to grid the chosen spot. In about 5 minutes I got a good signal but it turned out to be a tungsten ring. In another 5 minutes I got a faint signal and I decided I had better dig this one. One deep scoop and the sun shining off this gold chain nearly blinded me! I whispered to Gregg and he came over and took a look into my scoop. I gave Jose, Steve’s son, a thumbs up and he and his daughter came charging down the dunes to confirm the prize. Jose said we should take it to Steve because he was in town at work. A short trip to Steve’s job site and we laid the chain in his hand. He had almost given up hope of ever seeing the chain again. It never gets old presenting the prize back where it belongs. We beat the Big Lady this time and she did not swallow this chain. 



Laura & Roy were spending a traditional trip to Emerald Isle, North Carolina with their Maryland friends. Roy handed his wedding band to Laura while he went for a swim. Laura placed her husbands ring in a pocket attached to a beach chair among the group of other friends chairs. It wasn’t until much later when Laura went to retrieve the ring from the pocket. It was then she discovered the pocket had a hole that allowed the ring to escape.
Laura called me after a friend in the group mentioned someone must search for these kind of things and she also found from a local surf shop of my business of finding lost items. Laura gave me a call the following day and I agreed to load up and head her way. After searching beach near the water first, I made my way toward the higher beach. After a few unwanted signals, I came across a solid tone on my CTX-3030. After 1 scoop I held the ring up in the air for Laura to see and she dropped to her knees with relief!