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Gold Sword Charm Found on Fort De Soto North Beach

  • from Tampa (Florida, United States)
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Item recovered August 2, 2025.

This recovery was another where I happened to be at the right place at the right time. The last time this happened was exactly one month ago when I found a ring for Quinn on St. Pete Beach.

I was out enjoying the perfect detecting conditions on Fort De Soto’s North Beach on a beautiful summer Saturday. I had already been out there for several hours and was getting tired, thirsty and ready to head back home. As I was walking back along the water’s edge, I was approached by a young man who had asked if my detector could find something that was made of gold. His sister had lost a charm off her necklace a little ways down the beach and her entire family was searching for it for the past 15-20 minutes with no luck.

I was led to the area where the charm was lost. English wasn’t the family’s primary language, and I could only understand that the item lost was a small gold sword from a necklace. It was lost along the water’s edge, where waves were coming and going. I wasn’t sure how large the item was, but it was possible the waves had pulled the item deeper into the water or buried it in sand.

The pressure to find this item was more intense than usual, with 8 people watching me work back and forth in the shallow water. I would find a target, and they would crowd around to see if it was the missing item, only to see it was a bottle cap. This happened again when I located a pull tab in the area. I moved up higher into the wet sand and got a solid low signal. When a wave washed over the area, I thought I saw a glimmer of gold, so I dropped to a knee and pulled out my pinpointer instead of using my scoop.

My pin pointer immediately identified the item’s location just below the sand. I dug in with my fingers and saw gold. It was the lost sword charm they had been searching for!

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Gold Heart-Shaped Locket Recovered at Belleair Causeway Boat Ramp

  • from Tampa (Florida, United States)
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Item recovered July 31, 2025.

Mikey had reached out to the Dunedin Ring Finder in the evening about a lost gold heart-shaped locket. Steve was busy at another recovery search and reached out for assistance. It was getting late in the evening and Mikey was still at the location to show where the item was lost. I knew time was short before darkness would arrive so I gathered my equipment and set out on the 35-minute drive to the boat ramp.

I called Mikey on the way to get more details on the loss. He explained that earlier in the day, his girlfriend, Ryann had been in the water at the dog beach teaching her Great Dane how to swim. In the process, the dog’s paw had caught her gold necklace, breaking it and the charm had fallen off into the water. Fortunately, the gold chain got caught up in her swim suit and never fell into the water. All that was missing was the gold locket which slipped off the chain.

I arrived at the location and Mikey showed me to the area where the locket was lost. The water in the channel was dark, murkey and loaded with small pieces of metal from fishing weights, to bottle caps and pull tabs. Due to the small size of the item, it seemed as though this recovery could be a challenge, especially since I only had an hour or two of daylight remaining.

The search started in the shallow water and I worked my way down to a drop-off into the channel approximately waist-deep. Because the search are was narrowed considerably, I dug at every non-iron target I heard. I must have been on my 14th to 15th item when I pulled up my scoop from the water and noticed the obvious glow of the golden heart resting atop the silt. The item had been found!

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Unique Gold Ring Recovered in South Tampa

  • from Tampa (Florida, United States)
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Item recovered July 10, 2025.

I received a text from Tracy in the evening of July 9th asking for help locating a white gold « link » style ring with diamonds that was lost in the back yard throwing a frisbee for the dog. Despite searching the area where the ring disappeared, it had not been located that evening. We agreed to a time to search for the missing ring the following evening after work.

The back yard wasn’t very large and it was easy to see the area that was searched for the missing ring. I powered up the metal detector and started working around the area that had been searched. It only took a couple minutes to get a very promising signal that revealed the missing ring.

Due to the ring’s unique shape, it had « collapsed » into a small object that was hidden below the blades of grass and was very difficult to locate with the naked eye. Tracy was thrilled to have the ring back!

If you have a lost an item in your yard in the Tampa area, please call or text me to schedule a search!

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Yarmouth, MA: One Year to Find and Return a Ring by Richard Browne

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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July 18, 2025 It was on July 27, 2024 that I received a text requesting help finding a lost ring.

“Good morning! My son lost his wedding ban in the water on Smugglers Beach in South Yarmouth this past Sat. He was about waist high when he believes it must have slipped off. Is this something that could be found? It is a gold band and I think it was around 2pm that he lost the ring. Thank you! Jennifer (mother)“

As luck (good or bad) had it I agreed to help and arranged for myself and two other detectorists, Leighton and Jim) to go and search the next low tide. Well the water was quite rough and after a couple of hours in the water without results the search shifted to the dry sand again without good results. This could only mean one of two things. One, we did not pass our detectors’ coil over the ring or it was not there, unlikely in this case.

I went back to the area when the water calmed down on several occasions, never giving up hope it was still somewhere and could be found. It happened 51 weeks later when I was in the water chin deep when my detector alerted me of a metal object below its coil. One scoop and you bet, it was the ring sitting all alone at the bottom of my scoop. After a ¼ mile hike back to the parking area, putting on dry shoes I was on my way home to contact the owner.

A search of my records one had the original E-mail from Jennifer. I called her to verify that the ring was her son’s. “YES, I be right over, I live about a mile away” and she was. I handed over the ring with a promise to get a photo of her son with the ring for the Book of Smiles.

It was a really great day for Matt not only did he get his long lost wedding band back but a new addition to his family. It seems Matt was at the hospital waiting on the the arrival of his first son Arthur, aka Arty when I called his mother about finding the ring. Arty was named after his Mom’s Dad who passed when she was 2. And now his happy parents have the wedding band back and a lesson about never giving up to pass onto Arty. What a great way to have a wonderful day! Congratulations!

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lost diamond ring Nantasket Beach Hull MA

  • from Weymouth (Massachusetts, United States)
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Monday early afternoon August 4th 2025.  I get a call from Erin who is very upset.  Understandably so as she just lost her engagement ring on Nantasket beach in Hull, MA.   Not only did her future husband give it to her but its the same ring that her deceased father gave to Erins mother.   She lost it in the sand by her beach chair.  I told her not to move anything and i am on my way.

I got to the beach and parked right near where Erin sent me her location.   The first thing I did was give Erin a hug and said don’t worry I’m gonna find your ring.  She had been crying and was very upset.  She said she placed it on the arm of her chair to put sun block on.  stepped away for a minute or two and when she went back to the chair it was gone.   She searched and went through the sand but couldn’t find it.   She did the right thing she called a ringfinder right away.  After listening to her and her friend I started detecting.  Within 2 minutes I heard that sound I wanted to hear, used my sand scoop flipped the sand out and there it was this absolutely stunning diamond yellow gold ring.

I handed the ring to her and she was jumping for joy with the biggest smile.(you can tell by the photo how over joyed she was)  It was a crowded beach day so all the people around her knew what was happening and all of them were clapping and smiling for Erin.    Her girlfriends were around, wearing all their gold so I gave them all a lecture about wearing your valuable jewelry to the beach  Its a NO NO!!!!

 

 

 

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Lost wedding ring in West Roxbury MA

  • from Weymouth (Massachusetts, United States)
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It was a beautiful Sunday August 3, 2025.  I got a call from Joe who was out walking his dog in a wooded path area near his home.  While on the walk they wandered off the path a little so his dog could find that special spot to do his business.  Wellllllll he disturbed an under ground yellow jacket nest.   Ohhh boy, Joe started waving his arms in every direction trying to ward off the bee attack on both him and his dog.   He ran further up the path and stopped to swat more bees off his dog and himself.  They continues to swat and walk down the path til there were no more bees following them.  When Joe stopped to assess the damage from the bees he noticed his wedding ring was missing.   He traced his steps a couple times with his wife trying to find the ring, but no luck.

When I got to the meeting spot  Joe filled me in on the all that had happened.  He explained he had a few spots he thought it might be.  1. the first encounter with the bees.  2. after running and swinging his arms the first spot he stopped .  3. the second spot he stopped where he swatted the remaining bees off  and  noticed his ring was missing.

We got to spot 1.  Good no bees flying around.  Joe showed me where the bees came at them.  I just started swinging my machine in the area being careful not to hit the ground.   I asked joe if he could give me a perimeter of where the ring may be in.  As he was doing that he must have found the nest as bees started swarming.  Joe started running around swatting away, flailing his arms.  At least I got to see first hand how that ring came off.   I thought to myself heck this ring could be anywhere!!!!  as we continued on the path he showed me all 3 spots.

We were in spot number 3 when I told Joe to go home and wait for my text as this could take awhile. After about an hour of detecting the path and about 2 feet off each side of the path I was heading to number 2 spot.  Praying I don’t have to detect spot 1  for obvious reasons.   I got to spot 2 and after about 1 1/2  hours of total detecting time there it was under a pile of leaves on the side of the pathway.   I was so happy to see that gold band.

I text Joe to meet me at the car.  Him and his very nice wife came together, I handed Joe his ring.  He put it on his finger and smiled big   He said « lots of memories, and while its just a ring its very nice to feel it back on my finger again ».  We laughed at the search and the running from the bees then I was off.  I completely forgot to take a picture of Joe with his ring on.   He was kind enough to send one to me from  his house in front of his wedding portrait.   fun hunt!!!

Joes dog, Joe and I all had a few stings but all is good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cocoa Beach Florida Lost gold wedding ring found by Ring Finder Mike McInroe

  • from Sanford (Florida, United States)
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Andy was visiting friends here in Cocoa Beach, Florida and after a day out fishing in the Atlantic Ocean they pulled their boat into the loading dock area and Andy decided he needed to rinse the fish smell off of his hands. So he laid down on the dock and while rinsing his hands in the warm salt water his gold wedding ring slipped off of his finger and disappeared into the depths below the dock! Of course he was shocked and immediately waded out into the water but soon realized the water was way too deep to even try and attempt a dive. Someone suggested calling a Ring Finder and they contacted Al Zenker, a local member of theringfinders.com but unfortunately he does not do deep water recoveries and he recommended they call me. I met Andy and his friends at the dock and checked the depth to be sure my Blu3 Nemo dive system would allow me to search the bottom effectively and it measured just over 10 and a half feet deep so I was good to go!

I suited up and set a PVC marker pole at the spot where Andy’s ring fell into the water. Visibility was just over a foot and as I descended to the bottom I immediately got a couple of signals. A rusty screw driver, a deep signal and then a sharp clear signal and my hand felt something round and smooth and I slipped it on my index finger. As I ascended to the surface I came out of the water finger first and watched Andy’s face. He was visibly in awe that I had actually found it and was so thankful and grateful to have his lost ring back once again!

Do you need help finding something? Call or text me ASAP at 321-363-6029 and let’s talk!

Mike McInroe…proud member of theringfinders.com

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Moss Landing Sandholdt beach keys lost / found

  • from Monterey (California, United States)
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Lost keys @ Sandholdt beach, Moss Landing, found.   Thanx for the tip.

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MIT class ring found in Medfield MA

  • from Weymouth (Massachusetts, United States)
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Lauren reached out to me on a hot Monday morning.   She had a family cookout on Sunday at her home in Medfield MA, where her husband lost his MIT class ring.  She said her husband was playing ball with the grandkids and believes this is when he lost the ring.   It could be in the grassy back yard or with the throwing motion the ring could have gone into the woods bordering the back yard.   I told her I’m on my way.

When I got to Medfield we chatted about what her husband did during the day and she showed me all the areas he had been in . Some activity in the front yard but most was in the back.  As I got my detecting equipment out of the car she asked if there was anything she could do to help.   If answered, you can go in the house and stay cool as it was close to 90 degrees out or I have an extra machine if you want to give it a go with me.    She smiled and said she would detect.  I gave her the machine, ran a gold ring under it so she knew what she would hear and see.  I gave her a quick lesson on swinging, handed her a pinpointer and off we went to the back yard.

I started at one end of the yard and Lauren on the other.  An hour went by and nothing, lots of targets in the yard but no ring.   As we met kind of in the middle we took a little break of some well deserved ice water.  I got back to it and went over the area Lauren was in. After about 30 minutes I heard that nice sound I was waiting for, bent over with the pinpointer and there in a higher clump of grass was this big beautiful gold beaver ring.  I brought it over to Lauren who was still detecting,  she said,  I was just in  that area with the detector, and my who family searched the yard with our eyes but we couldn’t find it.

It would have been awesome to see Lauren pull that big gold ring out of the grass but in the end I was just happy that it was found.   Her husband had been wearing this ring for 40+ years so it was nice for him to have it back on his finger.

 

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Lost Platinum Wedding Band – Found by metal detecting specialist Brian Carpenter in Wexford near Pittsburgh

  • from Indiana (Pennsylvania, United States)
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Lost your ring, other valuable jewelry, cellphone, keys, or other metal object…call or text Brian Carpenter at (814)244-2300 as soon as possible. I am a ring recovery/metal detecting specialist serving Pittsburgh, Indiana (PA), and most of Western PA. Why rent a metal detector when you can get a trained operator with top of the line equipment at the same time…

I received a text from Barry inquiring about my services. I asked him to give me a call and he told me he was working on a chicken coop when he took off his wedding band at subsequently lost it. As luck would have it I was able to head out that later that morning hopefully before it started baking outside as we have been having a brutal heatwave.

I pulled in and met Barry who showed me what I had to work with. On the drive down, I was thinking about all the interference I was going to have from the chicken wire and how to try and work around it. My hunch was right, there was a lot of wire in and around the ground and as luck would have it the sound it emitted was similar to that of platinum.

I began to work with a small coil and very low sensitivity in and around the coop with no luck. Barry started to help by clearing some of the weeds and vegetation to allow us to see better as my machine was going crazy from the wire. After a fairly thorough search and while Barry was working around the coop I started to work the yard around the coop and to the garage area. Nothing…there was only one other area that I needed to check and that was a small section of the front yard where he had been petting his dog. I explained to Barry that I would check all of those areas and then get out my Minelab Manticore with the 2D screen. I was hoping that maybe in the midst of all the wire I might get a dot on the screen. Well that was not needed – as I went out to the front yard and began my search I almost immediately got a pretty good sound and using my pin-pointer parted the grass and clover revealing lost wedding band.

Barry was excited and also surprised that I found it in the front yard. He was sure if I was going to find his ring that it would be in the back around the coop. Barry took off inside to tell his wife the good news. He soon emerged and we chatted for a while which is one of the most enjoyable parts of a successful search. As always it was a pleasure to meet another kind and generous client and recover his special ring.

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