Lost gold wedding ring, Recovered by metal detectorist, Gowdy Beach, New Buffalo, Michigan (Lake Michigan)



Alec and Rachel, enjoying the perfect day at the private beach. In the water, sun shining, tossing a football. Uh oh, Alec discovered his gold wedding ring was missing from his finger.
Not knowing when or exactly where it came off, meant a fairly large search area. Highest chance it was during a throw, which can hurl a ring quite a ways or into deeper water.
Search conditions: Air 78, water 72, 2 ft gently rolling waves, crystal clear water.
Detector: Minelab Manticore
Scoop: XtremeScoops surfmaster titanium
Gridded the probable area, several junk metallic hits. At around 35 minutes in, I called a perfect 51 vdi signal the ring (in my thoughts), scooped out a bright, shiny one-month-old gold wedding ring! Was about 10 inches down in the semi-lofty sandbar sand. Their one month anniversary today. Happy day!