Christine was helping her dad pull a boat into the slip. With her keys in hand, the task of maneuvering the boat dislodged the keys from her grip. I took my gopro to the recovery. I hope you enjoy the video
If you’ve lost a ring or other valuable item in the Daytona Beach, New Smyrna, Ormond area, call Ed at 757-419-0299 for the best chance of having it safely returned to you! Maybe a class ring lost in your back yard years ago…there still may be hope of finding it…give me a call.
On Father’s Day, my wife Myrna and I were planning to go to her cousin’s home, in DeLand, for a family dinner. She was getting ready, while I was tending to my pulled calf muscle; injured not-so gracefully entering the pool in a typical, “this is how we use to do cannon balls,” splash.
Just then, I got a text from Abbey. She said that she was at Ponce Inlet, (just south of Daytona Beach) and had lost her diamond engagement ring in the sand. I knew that this recovery could be challenging if I had to walk much, but I was determined.
When I got to the beach, I met Abbey and her husband Tyler, and their baby boy Banks. They had sectioned off a large square of sand where they had found the wedding ring but not the engagement ring. I could also see lots of hand, finger and scraping marks from their search. I assured them that if the ring was there, I would find it.
I fired up the Minelab Manticore and began the search. I got a faint hit outside of the area but continued to the large square and began scanning. No targets. I asked them if it could be anywhere else or in the water and they replied, no. I went back to the initial hit. It was stronger. As I dug through the sand, deeper than expected, the sunlight hit the diamonds of the gorgeous ring.
Happy Father’s Day Tyler!! Hugs all around! Tyler, Abbey and even the guy in the vehicle south of them came over and gave me a hug! God is good!
This ring find began when I got a call from Mark who is visiting Waikiki from Houston, Texas. Before going in the water at Kuhio Beach he placed his Tungsten Wedding Ring in his shoe for safekeeping. When he exited the water and in a momentary lapse of reason he grab his shoes to put back on and the ring flew out and disappeared into the sand. He realized it would be hopeless as he didn’t really notice which way the ring went. He reached out to me and I was able to leave immediately. I arrived and parked in short order then went to meet Mark at McDonalds which was across from the loss area. Mark drew a grid in the sand for me but no ring was found. I asked some tourists if they could move to the area I just scanned and of course they did knowing the situation. I restarted the search and my first target previously under a beach mat happened to be Mark’s ring. He mentioned his 10th Anniversary was fast approaching and he didn’t want to have to tell his wife he lost his wedding ring. All ends well no dog house for Mark. Aloha to Mark!
People dont realize the emotional attachment that sometimes goes with rings. This man was physically upset that his wedding ring of 33 years had been lost. He was doing yard work and did not realize it was missing until after a lot of work had been done. It could be anywhere in the backyard!After a long search I emptied flower pots out he had been working in and detected the dirt. Very lucky to recover this one. He kissed the ring when I found it!
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Rich called me and explained that he had his wife’s necklace on his lap when they decided to pack up from the beach and go home. It wasn’t until they got home when he realized the necklace was missing.
I met him at the beach and he showed me the area they were sitting. On my second pass with my metal detector I received a good tone and the rest is history, the gold necklace came up with a gentle nudge from my foot.
June 16, 2024
A couple years ago, I got a call from a guy who’s wedding ring was lost. He, his wife and daughter, who was a toddler, were out doing things in their back yard. His daughter asked if she could wear his ring, and being a bit of a softy, he let her have it for a few minutes. He got distracted, and they all went up the hill to see their newly planted fruit trees, and lost track of time. On the way back down the hill they realized that she no longer had his ring. The grass was a little too deep to find it.
So, I went to their house, they explained that it could potentially be anywhere. The grass was very deep everywhere except part of the back lawn and the sandbox area. The ground was just loaded with signals, their neighbors told them that their entire property had been a private farm’s junkyard. All the broken down cars, trucks and farm equipment had been removed, so it looks nice, but it was going to be a real test of patience to find a little ring there. Patience is a requirement to belong to The Ring Finders!!
No luck that day. I went back a couple more times last year, as they cleared grass from different areas. Still no luck. I knew this one could take time.
They had a lot more mowing done, so I went to try it again today. When I got there, there was a new back door and a long wooden ramp to it. I got a real shock when his wife came to the door and said he had been in a serious accident and is now in a wheelchair. A young, healthy dad, on his way to work last Winter, was hit head on by a huge utility truck.
I started the search. After hearing hundreds of signals and digging dozens of targets, one being a horseshoe, I dug down with my finger expecting it to be just another piece if shreaded aluminum can or another car part, but it was something very smooth!! There it was, his shiny ring with roots growing through it!
He and his wife were in shock, they thought it was gone forever! I love these moments, a really good feeling to see it back on his hand. I sure hope he walks again someday. They also have a new addition to the family, a little boy!
If you just lost your ring or any other type of jewelry on the beach, give me a call/text (Louis 305-608-1870). I have a Metal Detecting service and can come out and help you find your Lost item whether you lost it in the water or on the sand. Please check out my other blogs of my over 100 successful recoveries. You can also check out my Instagram @MiamiMetalDetecting
Shortly before noon on June 15th, Demie called me asking if I could help find her Platinum Wedding Band at Wrightsville Beach. I told her it’d take me about an hour and a half to come up and I’d call the Ring Finder that covers Wrightsville and would call her back. I called John Finnerin and he said he wouldn’t be able to go. I text Demie back, told her I was on my way and gave her my ETA. A little bit later Demie sent me a pin drop with an address, so I knew exactly where to go. When I was close, I sent her a text saying I was about 15 minutes out. This time of year, tourist and locals swarm the beaches especially with the daily temperatures in the high 80s, and this day was no different. When I was on scene, I text her saying, “I’m here, looking for parking.” After making a couple of laps around the streets, I called her and asked if her husband was with her, she replied he was. I asked if he could come out and drive my car around while I looked for her ring. She quickly agreed and said he is on his way, describing what he was wearing. After Nathan and I switched off I headed out on the beach.
As I walked out, I saw Demie waving to me. We met up where they had been sitting and she showed me where the ring had to be. The area was maybe 2’X2’. She said she had taken her ring off to apply sunscreen and was holding the ring in her teeth. Her husband, Nathan had knocked over a chair and when she turned to see what happened the ring flew out of her mouth. I turned my Nox 800 on, and made a couple passes over the area. With a lady’s platinum ring, I knew I was looking for a VDI (visual display indicator) in the single to low double digit numbers. Sure enough, 2nd swing, and I got a solid 8 VDI. Scraped a couple of layers of sand into the scoop with my foot, shook the sand out of the scoop and bingo! When I went to hand Demie her ring, I dropped it back in the sand and it quickly disappeared. I saw where it landed, found it again and this time handed it back to her. She was all smiles and almost lost a tear but held it. Got a big hug and was on my way out to find Nathan and my car.
Demie – Thank you for trusting me to help find your lost treasure.
Jim
I woke up to find a missed late night text from Ingrid asking for help in finding her lost rings. I texted her to call me and she did a short time later. She told me she was visiting for father’s day from Georgia and was spending the day at Belmar beach when she took off her rings to put lotion on and placed them on the towel and forgot about them. Of course when they left they flew off the towel into the sand. She was in Paterson,NJ and said she would draw a map to show me where she was sitting. When I got to the beach I took a picture of the area and asked he to place an X where to search as well. I got to the area and there were signs of someone had detected there the night before. My hopes sank but started detecting anyway. Having no luck I looked at her map again and decided to move to the other side from where i was searching and on the 3rd pass I got a good signal and there was her wedding band in the scoop, then followed by her engagement ring. I couldnt believe it. I texted her a picture of the rings and she was so happy I found them. She drove straight from Patterson to meet me and get her rings back on her hand. A great ending to what could of been a bad weekend.
Recovery and Return’s #38 & 39
On Friday Night, June 14th, I received a text at approximately 7:40pm. It said
“My daughter was playing outside and lost her gold cross and a small gold basketball off her necklace I’m located in Westbrook, Maine what do you charge thanks Jon”
I replied,
“Hi Jon, sorry to hear this.
“I do not charge for my time or for my service. I do require a $25.00 Transportation Fee, to cover my gas, tolls, wear and tear, etc.
Where did she lose it? Your property? Private property? Public property?”
Jon then proceeded to tell me
“Yes my property we have a picture of her with it on 5 mins before she went inside changed her shirt and the pendants are gone. She said-early in the day chain got caught on her bike and didn’t think anything of it. The chain and cross were given to her when her great grandmother died.”
With it now being almost 8:00pm and raining slightly, I told Jon I could be there 1st thing in the morning, after charging my detectors, overnight. Jon and I agreed to meet in the morning and start searching.
I arrived at Jon’s home, in Westbrook, Maine at 7:15am and was promptly met by Jon and his daughter, Jaelyn. Jaelyn told me that she was next to the house, next door and ran home and went in the front door. A total distance of approximately 75+- feet. Jon and Jaelyn had performed a visual search but it was useless. The grass was fairly tall and something as small as the pendants would easily fall out of sight, into the tall grass. I asked Jaelyn where the picture of her, with the pendants, still on the necklace was taken. Jaelyn took me to the spot and told me that as soon as the picture was taken, she ran home. I decided to start the search there and asked Jaelyn to walk the same path, as she had run the previous night and I would follow her, very slowly, with my Minelab CTX-3030, with a very small 6 inch sniper coil.
About 10 minutes into the search, I received a very, very, very, low sounding chirping noise. I looked into the deep grass, but couldn’t see anything. I removed my handheld pinpointer and stuck it into the deep grass and received a nice loud signal. Pushing the grass aside, I saw the top of the 14K Gold Cross, Thank God! Jon and Jaelyn couldn’t believe it and Jon said that the cross, is the more important pendant. The cross had been given to her, after her Great Grandmother had passed away.
Now, to find the very small 14K Gold Basketball Pendant. I finished searching the path that Jaelyn had taken and no basketball pendant. We all talked about the possibility of the pendant, flying off her, as she ran and into the hedges, in the front of the house. I was also thinking the basketball pendant was smaller than the cross and decided to search the path again. This time, I would search with only the hand held pinpointer, by bending over for the length of the search. Still no basketball pendant. Did it bounce, into the hedges? Out towards the street? Don’t know, so I decided to grid search the entire lawn. I started at the lawn, near the front door she had gone in. No luck. I then moved to the lawn in front of the house and started searching there. As I came up to the light post, I received a nice strong signal, about 2-4 inches, from the light post. Could I be picking up some metal associated, with the post and wires below? I looked closely, into the grass but still didn’t see anything. As I put my pinpointer, into the grass, it received a signal and as I moved the grass with the pinpointer, I could barely make out something, gold in color. As I reached down and grabbed the item, I could see a very small Gold Basketball. I finally found it, after just under 2 hours of searching. The pendant was just a few feet, off of the path that Jaelyn had run , the previous night.
I then texted Jon and told him I had found the pendant. A few minutes later, Jon and Jaelyn came outside and I asked them if they could see the pendant, in the grass. They could not see it and I passed my coil over the pendant and showed them where it was. The pendant would never have been found, with a visual search.
Jaelyn and Jon told me they didn’t think I would find either pendant , but now they were both smiling ear to ear. Jon had told me that the previous night, Jaelyn was inconsolable and just crying and crying, because she had lost her Great Grandmother’s Gold Cross. Jaelyn is now feeling much better, knowing she has both pendants again. I am so grateful that I am able to reunite people with their extremely sentimental items.
