Tom was attending a bachelor party fishing weekend with the groom, groomsman and proud Father’s up in Port Severn on Little Go Home Bay.
There was a rush to get up to the location as they had an 11:00am check-out time looming.
Tim caught a small fish off the dock which caught his necklace, the necklace came loose and the sentimental ring fall into the water. The depth was approximately 5′ to 6′ of with murky bottom with lots of shells.
I used my Dive Blu3 Nemo floating battery operated air supply system with a 10′ hose, the Minelab Excalibur2 and a pin pointer to successfully recover Tom’s ring in a short amount of time as he knew exactly where his ring went in.
Thank you Tom for you donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation!
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Ajay and his long time University Friends were up at a cottage in Port Severn, Ontario. It was a last get together weekend before the summer as one Friends was headed to Western Canada.
The guys decided to do a ‘polar dip’ into the chilly waters of Georgian Bay. Unfortunately, Ajay’s wedding band slipped off his finger into the water below. One of the guys had taken a video of Ajay’s polar dip. With the help of a program I use (Splice), I imported the clip, slowed down the video and saw the moment the ring came off right in front of the dock.
I used my Dive BLU3 Nemo unit (floating battery operated air supply with 10′ hose) and my trusty Minelab Excalibur2 underwater metal detector. I the 25 minutes in the water, I found the cottage owners reading glasses, a fishing lure and finally Ajay’s beautiful gold wedding band!
What a great group of guys helping me with my equipment, recording from the dock and even a nice hot coffee with food afterwards to warm up. It was a real pleasure.
Thank you Ajay for your generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation!
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What can I say…. this was one incredible lost ring recovery story!
It all starts with a group of high school girlfriends getting back together in the summer of 2023 at “The Wilson Cottage”!
It was amazing reminiscing about the high school days and catching up on the last number of years! My high school girlfriends knew that I was a registered metal & scuba dive Detectorist with the global organization “The Ring Finders” as I have been posting recovery stories for over 7 years!
Of course I always ask…. “Have you or your Family ever lost anything at the cottage or in the water?
It turns out that Beth’s Mother, Mrs. Wilson, lost a gold ring in the bay that represented her 20th service year at Consumers Distributing of Canada! She thought she lost 20 years ago then they thought 30 years ago but it’s likely the ring was lost 35 to 40 years ago!
Of course I had to bring all my gear… my underwater metal detectors and my DIVE BLU3 floating battery operated air supply systems The NEMO to 10’ depth and the NOMAD to 30’ depth!
All we knew that Mrs. Wilson Lost Ring cleaning up weeds ..
So I tried in underwater detecting in July 2023 and found a number of pennies, a fishing lure and trash!
Then comes to July 2024, which we were invited back up for a milestone birthday which we shall not discuss what year! *wink
So of course, I say well I’m heading into the water to try and look for your mom’s ring again …. And 20 minutes later I come up with a gold ring and I was freaking out!
We had no idea this was Mrs. Wilson’s ring. Gina googled the image for consumers distributing! It was then confirmed that the ring was indeed Mrs. Wilson’s lost ring!
We then proceeded to FaceTime Mrs. Wilson and surprise her! And what a wonderful surprise it was as we all had tears of joy!
Thank you, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson as you did make a charity donation in 2023 to my charity the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation !
This was indeed, one of the most wonderful weekends we have ever had! Celebrating friendships along with milestone birthday and incredible years of memories!
“What happens at the cottage stays at the cottage” except for this very special Ring Recovery!
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Lost platinum wedding band jumping off boathouse roof.
Adam and his family were enjoying a lovely weekend at the Family cottage on Lake of Bays in the beautiful Muskoka’s cottage country. It also happened to be his wedding anniversary.
Adam decided to jump off the top of the boathouse into the water below. When he surfaced, his platinum wedding band was missing.
One of Adam’s Friends across the lake had mentioned me, as I recovered another lost wedding band for one of their mutual Friends in Otty Lake, Ottawa.
The water depth where the ring ended up was unknown but Adam felt it was definitely over 10’ deep.
I proceeded to use my Dive BLU3 Nomad air supply system with a hose length 30’ depth. Unfortunately, the Nomad unit was not operating properly as I was taking in water. I then switched to my smaller unit the NEMO for a hose reach 10’ depth. I managed to hear the tone of the platinum ring with a reach of 3’. Do I completed some temporary repairs to the Nomad unit and went back in the water.
After a few minutes back in the water I re-located the tone of platinum and recovered his wedding band.
I’d like to thank Adam and his family for their generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation! Not only did he receive his wedding band, but he also received a tax receipt for his donation!
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Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation ‘Pink Sista’ Beth had contacted me because her husband lost his wedding band in the waters or around their cottage on Lake Baptiste in Bancroft, Hastings Highlands, Haliburton, Ontario.
I thought it would be a good idea to put a flyer out on the lake as it was almost 4 hour drive up from my home and maybe others had last something!
I had a few people reach out about their lost items and one was from Carol Anne & Larry.
Their Son-in-law Jeff has been visiting the cottage with the kids.Jeff was playing in the water with his kids and lost his wedding band! The area was extremely silty with very poor visibility.
I proceeded into the general area and with the help of my Minelab Manticore underwater detector and a pin pointer, I recovered Jeff’s precious wedding band in roughly 5 minutes.
I headed back to the dock and handed the wedding band to Larry with tears in my eyes. Carol Anne & Larry’s Daughter Terry Anne had passed away in 2020 after a very short illness with cancer.
Jeff was extremely grateful to receive his wedding ring back as he stated ‘how a chunk of shiny metal held so many memories and a replacement band just wasn’t the same’!
I am truly honoured to meet and help Carol Anne & Larry find their Son-in-Law Jeff’s precious and cherished wedding band! I look forward to visiting them when I return to Lake Baptiste this summer 2024!
We all have done things we later regretted, and this recovery story is one of those instances that has happened more often than one may think. Because of these 2 rings being intentionally thrown into a canal, I will change the names of the party involved on their request.
While driving back from my local hardware store, I received a call from “Mrs. Smith”. She inquired about my recovery service and conveyed a sense of urgency for my assistance. Without very little to go on, she mentioned there were 2 gold rings lost in a canal. I informed her because of the heat, I don’t travel with my equipment in my truck and would need to go home before heading her way.
Upon arriving, the couple were both outside and met me to explain what happened. “Mr. Smith” informed me that he took both, his and her, rings and threw them into the canal behind their home. I didn’t inquire any further as my only business was to find and return both rings. I asked about the depth and knew it was after low tide there so I would need to get busy or possibly in water too deep to effectively dig. After getting an idea of what I should wear and the type of equipment needed to use on this soft bottom with scattered oyster shells, I jumped into the surprisingly warm water and started my best to grid the area Mr. Smith pointed out. About 10 minutes later, I was able to pull Mr. Smiths gold band from about 4 foot of water. We thought both rings would be near each other, and this was not the case as Mr. Smith threw them from a long distance. Mrs. Smith’s ring was small and I was getting numerous other signals that either were too deep or small trash. More minutes past as the couple both sat along the water waiting patiently in the hot sun. I finally received a steady signal from about 4 ½ foot of water and brought the target to the surface. After cleaning most of the smelly mud from my sand scoop, I noticed a small gold circle laying in the scoop. I turned to the couple and gave them a big smile. Both of their tossed & lost rings were returned. Mrs. Smith wanted this whole event to be private and I respect her decision and she permitted a picture of the 2 rings and a shot of me kneeling in front of the canal where I made the recovery.
Eric headed north from Hamilton to see his Family in North Bay, Ontario.
He decided to go for a canoe paddle but unfortunately the canoe capsized and Eric’s ring slipped off his finger into 5′ of water near the Sunset Beach boat launch.
Eric contacted me and I went up on a beautiful sunny day as I was off on holidays. I managed to ask two complete strangers Don & Barb local North Bay residents to be my safety spotters while I search for the lost ring.
A few items were found such as a fishing lure, a Medic Alert bracelet (which I tried to return) a number of trash items and after an hour and a half I finally had a beautiful solid tone on my underwater metal detector!
Thankfully, this was Eric’s 14k gold wedding band with the identifying marks of a MAPLE LEAF.
Don, Barb and I then proceeded to FaceTime Eric to surprise him with the good news!
Thank you to the completed wonderful strangers North Bay residents Don & Barb for agreeing to be my safety spotters. Also, thank you to the ring owner Eric and his Wife Megan for your generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation! My reward goes to this amazing charity which I have been involved in for 15 years.
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Laura had received a beautiful 18th Birthday gift of her Great Grandmother’s ring which dated back to the 1940’s ear a couple of years ago.
Laura and her dog was visited the dog beach portion at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park the day prior. Her dog was running off into the water with leash attached and she felt that the ring must have slipped off as her finger as it was catching the leash.
After starting the search, our first find was a small ring. Unfortunately, this was not Lauren’s ring. Hopefully we can get that ring back to the owner through social media posts.
The next target was a pull tab and finally the next target was the beautiful 1940’s amethyst gold heirloom ring!
Lauren and her Mother both saw the glimpse of gold and we all shouted with excitement and relief.
The key to this successful ring recovery was getting the the location as soon as possible after it was lost and the strict tight grid search!
Thank you so very much Lee & Lauren for your generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Joel took his kids for an afternoon outing at Emerald Lake Trailer Resort & Water Park in Puslinch, Ontario.
He went down the water slide and felt his wedding band slip off his finger into the water below.
We are grateful to obtain permission from the owners to look for his wedding band near the end of the day not to disturb the patrons! Emerald Lake is a private trailer resort as well as a water park open to the public! Check out their website at emeraldlake.ca
I proceeded into the water with my floating battery operated air system called the DIVE BLU3 NOMAD. The nomad has a 30 foot hose and pumps air on demand down through the hose to my regulator! With a weight belt at slightly negative buoyancy, I am able navigate with ease to operate my underwater metal detector to find Joel’s wedding band!
Unfortunately, the visibility was extremely poor due to the silty bottom! There were numerous targets such as trash, small pieces of jewelry, pop cans, and pull tabs.
My metal detector and pin pointer helped me zone in on a solid loud target after approximately 40 minutes in the water!
HURRAY!! This target was Joel’s beautiful gold wedding band! Joel and his Wife were absolutely thrilled to have his wedding band back on his finger!
Happy to help recover Joel’s precious wedding band and grateful for permission from the owners at Emerald Lake Trailer & Water Park!
Received a call from Gayle that her Daughter Jenna was kayaking on Lake Manitouwaba, Sequin the previous summer and lost her heirloom engagement.
The Dive BLU3 Nemo floating battery operated air system, underwater circular gridding technique alongside my underwater metal detector made this a quick 15 minute ring recovery!
Jenna and Family were all thrilled!
Thank you Jenna for your generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation!
