Andrew lost his ring on the beach by putting his ring in the chair cup holder for safe keeping! Unfortunately while having so much fun on the beach he forgot about the ring and lost it. He provided me with a picture he took on the beach and I was able to use it to guide me in the general area and after about 15 minutes … BAM!!
I headed to Clary Lake in Jefferson, Maine this morning to recover Carly’s engagement ring, it was lost in 14ft of water while swimming in a cove across the lake from her camp with friends and family on the 4th of July. After losing the ring the site was marked with a buoy giving a good reference point for use when starting my search. But, as with most of my searches, due to sediment being churned up there was zero visibility.
Trish called and said she was at the beach with her son Shawn, his ring slipped off his finger in shoulder deep water. It was a large med school ring that I figured wouldn’t travel to far due to its size. She gave me all the details and that she also spoke to the lifeguards, and they were going to keep an eye open for it. Luckily we have had very light breezes, and a pretty calm surf for New Jersey. We arranged to meet at the next low tide, and that’s where I started, right at the waters edge. After one pass I went right into the trough, it wasn’t easy working there with the waves breaking, and the strong moon current pulling. I only worked a small area because the life guards had pointed to the spot they were standing when the ring slipped off. I got a nice strong signal and prayed it wasn’t a penny, knowing the ring was quite large, and would signal the same. With a few small shakes to clear the sand I felt klunk, klunk, and was almost certain it was the ring, YES!!!!!!! it was. This ring is extremely special, Shawn’s dad had given it to him for his Med School graduation, and unfortunately he passed last year. 
Marta called and said her husband Travis had just lost his wedding ring in the sand. They were at the volley ball courts in Point Pleasant Beach when it flew off. We made arrangements to meet on court 18, I also had her request to shut down that one court so the ring wouldn’t go any deeper. When I arrived Travis showed me where he thought it had came off, and in just a few swings the ring was in the scoop. It took longer to find the court they were on than the recovery itself. I love the expressions when an item is returned.
On Saturday July 8th, I received a call from Amy. Her husband, Johnny, had lost his wedding ring, in the water, at their lake house, in Raymond, Maine, the previous day. After searching the shallow water with sifters and rakes on Friday and Saturday morning without finding the ring, they decided to do an online search for help. They found me on The Ring Finders site and Amy made the call. They were located on Panther Pond, in Raymond, Maine. I knew the area fairly well as they were very close to Sebago Lake, which I have previously been to. I immediately got my equipment together and loaded in my vehicle and made the 45-50 minutes drive to their lake house.
Johnny immediately met my wife and I as we drove up to the house. Jonny explained that he just got married 5 months ago and was very upset with losing the ring in the water. He had been roasting marshmallows over a fire and had gone into the lake to wash his hands. After washing his hands, he shook his hands to dry them off and the ring flew off into the lake. Johnny showed me the area he was in when the ring flew off. I started my slow sweeps along the sand bottom of the lake, with the Minelab CTX-3030, and in less than two minutes I received a nice low tone signal, reading 12-20 on the VDI screen. I got the pinpointer out and located the target. A couple of scoops of sand with my hand and I saw a bright and shiny gold wedding ring. I picked the ring up and showed Johnny, Amy and extended family and friends that were watching and received a big round of applause that made me feel just great. To see the relief and smiles on Johnny and Amy’s faces makes me feel so proud and lucky to be able to help people in their time of need. What a great hobby. Here is wishing Amy and Johnny many many happy years of marriage.
Vincent and his wife Liz were here in Daytona Beach, Florida celebrating a special anniversary and enjoying a warm summer day at the beach. They decided to rent an umbrella, a beach chair and a small table from Glenn and Robin at Doc’s Beach Rental! Before going into the water Liz took her three rings off and put them in a small side pocket of her backpack and set it down on the sand next to the lawn chair. As they swam and enjoyed the water the tide was slowly coming up and getting close to Liz’s backpack so she decided to set the backpack on its side up on the small table. Of course not realizing that one of her precious rings had fallen out onto the wet sand. They swam awhile longer and then grabbed their towels, sandals and backpack and headed for their room to shower, change and get to the airport to catch their plane for home. After cleaning up and getting dressed Liz went to put her rings on and realized one of her rings was missing. They hurried down onto the beach and desperately searched for her ring and it was nowhere to be found. They asked the kind couple at Doc’s Beach Rentals to keep their eyes open just in case and with deep sadness in their hearts they headed to the airport! Later that day Vincent found theringfinders.com website and gave me a call. Again I always ask allot of questions to help me narrow down as close as possible where the missing ring is hiding. (And I always warn people to NOT post information about their lost item and its location on Facebook or Craigslist…UNTIL I have a chance to figure out all the details and have the opportunity to thoroughly search the area.).
The following day I made plans to search at low tide and I hoped to be able to meet the friendly couple who run Doc’s Beach Rentals and gather what information I could about the exact location and where they normally put out their beach chairs and umbrellas. Upon my arrival at the location I saw there were a few people swinging metal detectors right in the area where Vincent and Liz indicated she had lost her ring! I was stunned and soon learned that Liz had actually posted on Facebook what she had lost and where she lost it!!! I desperately hoped I was not too late and after talking to the rental personnel I decided to conduct my own search. As I walked towards the main target area I could see the drag marks and obvious indications that someone had searched this area already. So I went as close as possible to the first beach chair and umbrella and began my grid search and I had not walked 20 feet and BAM! A sharp, solid, shallow signal indicated a good target and as I slowly pushed the wet sand away I could see a beautiful white gold rim of a ring with little diamonds along the one side and there was Liz’s lost ring! Another miracle of how God allows a lost ring to be found and returned to its rightful owner!
Thank you Vincent and Liz for trusting me to search for, to find and to return to you what you thought was lost forever!
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Got tagged by a friend in a Facebook post, in regards to a woman posting that she had lost her wedding ring at « the beach » earlier in the week. I sent Jessica a link to my Ringfinders contact information and received a reply yesterday, four days after the loss. She gave my number to her husband, David, who called me to explain the events and location, etc. We spoke and currently had a window of good weather opportunity, I offered to come down and search immediately. They had posted a reward and said that at least four people had said they were going to search for it (they provided them with the suspected areas etc). David had borrowed a metal detector from a friend and tried searching for the ring, but said the detector never « found » anything in the water or on the beach (cheap detector). I let them know I wasn’t 100% my normal abilities, due to medical restriction from a few recent surgeries, but I would try searching within reason/etc. Pretty much everyone at the beach knew of the lost ring. David said Jessica was playing volleyball in the water, but was always facing towards shore when hitting the ball. I searched the dry sand where they had setup towels/etc, then moved to the water, it’s a rather shallow swim area. There were two little girls with masks on, the older of the two asked if I was looking for the lost ring, I said yes, she said they were both searching for it also, lol . Another little kid had actually found a ring earlier, or a couple days ago, gave it to the mother, who then showed David and Jessica the ring to see if it was theirs. Not being theirs, they told the lady to turn it in to the office lost n found, she said she would, then packed up her stuff to leave and walked right past the office and left. Anyhow, upon searching in the shallow water, I started seeing fresh dig craters, not a good sign. Targets were non existent, which is good and bad, but I kept looking in the zone. Found a pull tab and a couple quarters. Got somewhat worried that someone else had cleaned the place out. Nearing the far edge of where they said she had been, I got a strong signal of something likely laying on top of the sandy bottom. Scooping gently, then washing out the sand slowly, revealed one Massive chunker of a ring, loaded with diamonds. Wowzers! I wasn’t sure if it was the lost one or not, they only had a really poor photo of her ring that was provided to me, which made it look like very yellow gold and not the very white gold this one was. After getting back to my truck, I re-examined the photo they sent and could see the stones were indeed the same pattern/etc as the found one. They had gone to get dinner up the street. I sent them the photo of the ring and made their day!
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Adonys contacted me hoping I could help in finding his wife’s lost engagement ring. She had been in the back yard throwing a ball when the ring came off. She knew when it happened, and the direction it came off, but in an instance it vanished. She and Adonys spent hours trying to find it with no ring. We arranged for me to come out the next day.
I arrived in the morning, and they led me out to the back yard which happened to be quite small. The problem was the grass, it was thick and tall except for the part Adonys had mowed which made me fear for the ring, thinking it might have been caught up by the mower, and ruined. I got my detector out, and began. Immediately I had a problem with interference, so I switched detectors to see if I could eliminate the static. That worked. I turned the detector on, swung twice, got a signal, put the pin pointer in and found the ring, all in about 15 seconds. They were flabbergasted that it was found so quickly, but very happy to see it again. Adonys had designed the ring himself to be crafted by a jeweler, so this was a special recovery for sure.
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Steve’s Emergency Metal Detecting Service For You if you lost a ring or something precious to you. Please don’t wait until tomorrow, time will work against you, please CALL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, CALL NOW! 310-953-5268
I was contacted by Byron after he lost his wedding ring in the sand at the beach. He and his wife had been at the beach with friends when he noticed his ring missing. He let me know that they had performed an intense search, but were unable to find it. I let him know I was available, and could come right away.
When I got there Byron and his wife were waiting right where they believed the loss to have occurred. We talked about how he believed the ring came off, and where he believed it might be. Well he pointed to the middle of the area they had already searched, and that is where I began. I made a couple of passes, and the first sound I received was a bit off because he had told me it was silver. I had forgotten the meteorite part of the ring. I dug, and there it was, stuck to my magnet in the scoop because meteorites are iron, so they are magnetic. I held the ring out for Byron, and he was amazed that it was found right where they had searched. We use the best detectors available, so these rings find it hard to hide from us. He and his wife had only been married one year so this recovery was very special for them.
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This ring find began last night when I got a call from Doctor Javier. He was sitting in the Hospital’s Garden Break area talking to his wife on his cellphone and tossing his ring back and forth between his hands. Suddenly, one of the tosses was too strong and he thought he saw the ring travel to his left and disappear into the grass. After a futile search he reached out to theringfinders and found me. I agreed to meet him after work the next day to hunt for his ring. Doctor Javier was waiting outside when I arrived and the break area was just a short walk from where I parked. He described on location how the ring went missing and I started my search. I could see some some sprinkler heads so there was going to be some target interference. I decided to only pinpoint surface targets on the Nox as their were quite a few deeper targets coming thru. After a thorough search of the area and no ring found I told Javier some piece of information is missing but since its a small area I was going to expand the grid to cover it all. As I was going behind the tree I got a surface target tone and looked down. Leaning against the tree’s trunk was Javier’s ring. How in the world did it get back there when it should have been to Javier’s left side. Looking at the chair our only answer was the ring had to of rolled down the back leg and behind the tree. See the other chair for reference. Acrobatic Tungsten ring! All that matters is we had a successful recovery. Aloha to Doctor Javier!