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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
As I was getting out of the water yesterday when I received a text message from Chet. It said that he had lost his wedding band the day before while swimming his boat back to shore. He also new the general area, and mentioned, at low tide it should be fairly low water. He wanted to know if I could help with locating it for him. I told him that I certainly will try.
We made plans to go around an hour before low tide. I met Chet, and asked a few more questions like, is it White, Yellow, Gold or Platinum? Any makings inside, the usual. Was the water mucky in that area? Hopefully no one had stepped on it, and sent it to deep to locate.
We walked down to the area, I had him go out and stand in the spot he had it last and stop. I made my way out to him, first signal was an old Penny, next signal was blasting , I knew I had it rite away. I looked in the scoop and said does that look familiar ? He couldn’t believe it. Less than five minutes, and with perfect timing, it was back on his finger. Congratulations Chet and Thanks for calling The Ring Finders… Leighton
It took a while but his ring was found……about 30 m from where they thought it was lost. I have underwater equipment to complete lake and river searches.
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A couple of weeks ago I received a call for a ring search just over an hour from my home. Unfortunately, due to my schedule I was unable to attempt a locate of the ring until this past weekend. The ring was lost along a country gravel road near Monmouth, IL. Monica, the owner of the ring, was traveling down the road at approximately 40 MPH when she made a waving gesture out the window and off went her ring off into the ditch full of knee high grass. Fortunately, Monica immediately identified a nearby landmark so that she could recall the approximate area of the loss.
I met Monica’s husband at the location on Sunday morning and I was shown the most likely stretch of ditch that the ring may have landed. You can see from my photo that the location was about 50 yards long from where I was standing to my car in the distance. The grass was just waiting to be searched.
The grass was too tall for my larger coils, so I used my 6″ sniper coil on my Equinox 800 so that I could get easily get deep into the grass. I combed the roadway edge first, but came up empty. I worked my way into the ditch and searched completely from road edge to fence line. Eventually, I got a solid tone and a 15 on my VDI. I grabbed my Garrett carrot and pinpointed the target deep in the grass. As I moved the grass blades out of the way, the bright sun shined down on the ring and it reflected back at me. I picked it up and sure enough it was just like the one in a picture that Monica had sent to me.
Needless to say, I was glad to have found Monica’s ring. It is a beautiful ring and it was truly a memorable search that I won’t soon forget. I sent a text to Monica with only pictures of her ring. I immediately received a call from her and was she very grateful for this recovery. It was my pleasure to return her ring.
Got a call from Rick Browne another Ring Finder Saturday evening. He asked me to join in a hunt for a lost Platinum Wedding band from the day before. I said of course I’ll join in. We met the next morning at his place, then met up with the owner (Alex) at the West Dennis beach. As usual, Rick & I took our approach and went at it. I had asked Alex to go into the water, and stand in the spot he believed it to have come off of his finger while playing football. He was trying to remember, but seemed as though things looked different to him today. Rick & I had grid an area about about 100 x 100 square foot = 10,000 square feet.
We were running out of area to search. I turned to see Rick looking at his machine, I said whats up? He replied with great sorrow, he replied my battery is dead. I said no worry I’ll keep looking for it. I broadened the search area, Alex called in a lifeline to his brother. He helped in this recovery as best as he could. I kept searching, and in the process, I found two sterling rings that had been lost many moons ago. We were running out of more area now, It had been almost 3 hours of searching, and yet no Platinum Wedding band.
As I got closer to Alex I told him I think that’s about it buddy. He said he had waved the white flag and chocked it up as gone forever. All three of us were walking out of the water, I got a signal that I was sure it was it…. NO…. it was a Quarter this time. Something told me to turn right just a little and yes another signal… could it be? sounds good…I dug down one scoop and finally the Platinum wedding band was in my scoop. I looked up and said you are a very lucky man today. Alex was running over to me, he couldn’t believe I got it after so long. He teared up, and said Thank You so much. Rick & I congratulated him, out of the water we went, mission completed. Lot’s of joyous comments on the way back to the truck. Alex was was so happy we didn’t give up easily… Persistence did pay off. Congratulations Alex… Glad we found it.
