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While camping out at the Grand Haven State Park, Abby H. was setting around the campfire enjoying an evening with friends when she lost her ring. Grand Haven beach is one of Pure Michigan’s crown jewels. Abby was given the ring at the top of a Ferris wheel by her boyfriend. It is in the shape of a sphere that has no end just as there relationship has no end. Abby’s boyfriends family all have an exact tattoo with a shape of the ring. So the story goes on that it has a special meaning to her. She contacted the ranger station and they gave her the number for Tom Townsend (a RingFinder) but he was unable to help her out today and Tom referred her to me. It was around 1:30PM when I got the call and Abby needed to work at 5:30PM. I was about 45 minutes away and she had already checked out of the campsite. I got there around 2:30pm and met Abby and got my F75 detector out. No sooner than I got the detector on, ground balanced and Abby pointing out the area that I got a beautiful signal with the first sweep. Abby and her friend Lauren were ecstatic that her ring was found. The camper next to them was impressed too that it went so quick and my success. Thank you Tom Townsend again for the referral.

Got a voicemail from Steve,  a newly married guy that stated he had lost his gold wedding band in Lake Wawasee.

He said he was at the end of the pier when the ring fell off into the water. The water was about 4 feet deep, however, there was many aluminum pier supports and posts surrounding the loss location which made it impossible to use a regular metal detector to locate the ring due to metallic items interfering with detection (unless pier was removed for winter time).

After advising him of this, he was worried he have to wait until fall to have the ring recovered. I told him I have a plan B, which involved using a small pinpointing unit that I use when scuba diving to find small items in the sand and muck. After several minutes of scouring the loss location with no luck, I decided to get my scuba diving mask and take a look around. After a few more minutes, it was looking grim.  There was some weeds growing around the pier supports. I thought to myself, wonder if it’s stuck in those weeds and suspended above the bottom.  I ran the pinpointed up through the weeds, got a signal and then saw the glimmer of white gold flashing towards the bottom. There it was, had been stuck suspended in the weeds! Picked it up off the bottom to present it to Steve who was thrilled to have it back again.

Received a phone call from George, a newly married guy, who said he had lost his gold wedding ring in Eagle Lake located in Edwardsburg Michigan.  He was visiting his parent’s lake home for the weekend.  George did some swimming near the dock and had been throwing a tennis ball for their dog to fetch. He was fairly certain he had lost the ring while throwing the ball, but wasn’t totally sure.

George took to the internet to try and find out how or who could help him find or recover his lost ring. He found Ringfinders.com and looked at the directory to see who could help him.

After receiving the call, we arranged a time that worked for our schedules, the following morning worked for both of us.

I arrived at the home, got my equipment out and was promptly in the water searching. There were several metallic items in the search area (pennies, old dock pipes, cans) but a nice hard sand bottom with small rocks everywhere. The water was nice, clear and warm.

After only a couple minutes of searching, I was getting a high probability signal associated with gold rings. Passed the detector over the target and could see the roundness and edges of a gold ring!

George and his new bride were all smiles and very grateful for the help finding his lost ring.