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Lost Wedding Ring found Saratoga Springs, NY

  • from Saratoga Springs (New York, United States)
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I received a call from Jimmy who had lost his wedding ring at dusk while walking the dog in his backyard.  I arrived at his house the next day. He said he had searched all over for it but was unable to find it. After asking him multiple questions, he lead me to the area where he thought he lost it. I thought that this would be fairly easy as it had to be on top and he owned a new modern house, but after listening to the ground for a few minutes I knew that something was not right as there were hundreds of  signals…all in the gold range. He revealed to me that there used to be a mechanic shop of some kind right there.  Suddenly things were not so easy. I combed the area for over an hour closely watching the depth meter.  I was beginning to really wonder if I could find this ring, but I had told him I would not give up.  Finally I got the shallow signal I was waiting for.   I combed through the grass with my hands, and there it was already settling into the roots, completely invisible to the eye.  Jimmy was thrilled as was I. What a relief!  A happy ending all round.

 

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Lost ring in Door County recovered through teamwork!

  • from Green Bay (Wisconsin, United States)
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On August 21st, I received a call from Jake about his lost wedding ring at Jacksonport Beach, a popular spot on the east coastline of Door County.   It slipped off his finger in chest-high water about 35-to-50 feet from shore.    I drove out later the next day, after giving some storms time to pass by.    I arrived to see white caps rolling in, but they weren’t too high close to shore in the troughs between the sand bars.   Further out, they were pretty strong.

I knew this would be an arduous search because the Lake Michigan side of the Door County Peninsula is colder than the bay, and fighting the incoming whitecaps can tire a person out pretty quickly.   I taught Jake how to detect small round objects with my ancient Fisher 1280, an analog model that is easy to use because it goes by sound.   I used an AT Pro, which has been pretty effective for me on sand beaches.   Jake used my heavy steel scoop, which has enough weight to be effective in surf.   He is a bigger guy, so he could handle the deeper waves better than I could. I started out about chest deep, and worked my way into the shallows, figuring the waves may have tumbled the ring toward shore.   I worked back and forth closer and closer to the beach, but only found one hammered coin of some kind, to be cleaned and researched later. Jake and his sons arrived to observe and assist, and his wife and baby boy came by later to watch and give encouragement.   After the better part of an hour Jake waded in with a huge smile and his artisanal ring in the scoop!    Nice recovery!  Their whole family was beaming!

Jake gave me a generous reward, which will be used to bring our grandson to a Timber Rattlers and a Milwaukee Brewers game!    I hated to take it, since he was the one who scooped it using my gear, but the main thing is we worked together and found it!

Something gleaming in the scoop!

(Word to the wise:   Wedding bands without protruding stone settings will sink where they fall in sand until they reach equilibrium!   The ring stayed put despite the waves.)

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Found 2 gold rings Lake Tippicanoe

  • from Bristol (Indiana, United States)
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What a story, Diana contacted me to find a ring she had recently lost. while looking for the ring I found a class ring too. I was able to help 2 people at once.

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Found Titanium wedding ring in a lake in Union,MI

  • from Bristol (Indiana, United States)
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Larry messaged me and said he lost his wedding ring while on the sand bar. He told me it wasn’t a very expensive ring but it meant so much to him because he lost his wife/ best friend do to medical conditions 6 months ago. I was able to find it for him. He said he was so sick to his stomach that he lost it and he will take it off every time he goes in the water. I am very glad i was able to get it back to him.

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Found gold neckless and pendant Northville, MI

  • from Bristol (Indiana, United States)
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Aron text me and and said he lost his neckless jumping off a bridge into a lake. It was about 10 feet deep and weeds. I went up there 2 time before I found it. His grandma gave him the necklace when he was born it really meant a lot to him.  He was very happy.

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Found and Returned class ring Goshen high school

  • from Bristol (Indiana, United States)
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I found this class ring while I was out diving and detecting in a local lake. I did some research and found him. He was in the Vietnam war, he was a local fireman for 15 years and Fire chief for 5. It was lost when he was about 18. Good to give back to someone that has done so much for the community.

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Found lost wedding ring Goshen, IN

  • from Bristol (Indiana, United States)
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This was one of my first calls to help find his wedding ring. He said he had to have lost it doing some concrete work on his sidewalk and was ready to rip it apart if I thought it was in there. I looked for a while and couldn’t find it so we retraced his steps what all he did that day. I found it about 150 feet away from where he thought it was. Sometimes it helps to investigate. He was jumping up and down with joy and gave me a hug lol.

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Found gold wedding ring in Lake Michigan Chicago

  • from Bristol (Indiana, United States)
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This young man called me and said he lost his wedding ring that used to be his grandpas. He was standing on a wooden wall and fighting the big waves in lake michigan in Chicago. It took me a little while but I found it in about 6 feet of water. He couldnt believe it but was very happy to have it back.

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Found gold wedding ring in LaPorte, IN

  • from Bristol (Indiana, United States)
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This young man lost his wedding ring when swimming at a friend’s house on the lake I found it in about 7 feet of water in some weeds.

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Lost White Gold Engagement Ring-Found!

  • from Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States)
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I received a text from Leslie on Monday afternoon concerning a lost engagement ring.  She had found me with an internet search.  As it was late in the day I told her I could come the next day, becase it was about a two hour drive from where I’m located.  I got to the site at around 11:00 AM Central Time.   The couple had been pulling a boat and pulled off into the parking lot of an old convience store that had been converted into another use.  As they got out to adjust the boat straps, (the ring had been placed in the shallow tray under the door handle), the ring somehow went flying.  They looked on the pavement and didn’t see it, but there was a grass strip between the pavement and a shallow ditch, then more grass just beyond the ditch.  I started my search in the grass strip, then the ditch, then just beyond the ditch.  Being this had been a convience store at one time I expected a lot of metal trash in the ground, and I was right.  She did have a metal detector that had been her grandfather’s, but was overwhelmed by the abundance of metal trash.  I searched slowly and methodically while listening for the white gold tone and looking for the target ID I typically get for white gold rings.  After searching the entire area, no ring.  Of course I found several pieces of foil.  I turned off my CTX detector, and was explaing the process, where I search the most likely area first, then expand the search area if the ring is not found, (a visual scan of the pavement was next).  At that time someone from the building, I’ll call him « Tom », came out and we explained what we were doing, and that a visual scan of the pavement was next.  He struck out towards the highway, and in around ten seconds I heard him call out, « is this it? »  He had found it around 10-12 feet from the edge of a busy highway!  The ring was intact, but had some minor damage where it looked as though it had been run over and stuck in the tire treads before dropping off just before the highway.  In a visual search, the more eyes the better.  All in all, another successful search!

 

 

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