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Lost Gold ring found in Bear lake Kalkaska county

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I received a call from Kathleen, who said that her son had lost an irreplaceable ring in Bear Lake in Kalkaska County, MI.

Her son was playing volleyball in knee-deep water. The Gold ring was made from the gold wedding rings of his grandparents. They had the ring made once her son completed his goal of becoming an ordained minister.

I went to the location after dark due to drive time and other commitments. Kathleen told me they rented a metal detector but had no luck finding the ring.

I was in the water about 1 1/2 hours before finding the ring. When it wasn’t in the primary search area, I made the search area bigger, resulting in me finding the ring.

Kathleen sent me a picture of her son in the water with the rented detector.

 

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Gold wedding ring found in lake Michigan with a metal detector

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I received a call from Joe while driving home from work today. He lost his wedding ring in 5 feet of water in Lake Michigan.

Joe and his bride of 6 days enjoyed a day at the beach on their honeymoon.

Joe stated he was swimming in deeper water, turned around, and headed back to shore. He felt and saw his ring come off his finger.

He tried to dive and catch the ring, but it went under the sand.

I drove an hour to meet Joe to get the ring back. I was in water up to my chin. I got a good tone on the Excalibur II, then scooped up the ring.

Apparently, Joe told everybody on shore what happened. As I returned Joe his ring, the audience on shore started clapping and yelling good job.

I thank Joe and his new bride for the generous reward. I love finding the Gold ones.

 

 

 

 

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Lost wedding ring found in Lake Michigan with a metal detector

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This call started with a call from a local Detectorists asking for help locating a ring in 3 feet of water in Lake Michigan. He had been to the site twice already and couldn’t find the ring so he called me asking for help.

I called and talked to Laura to get some more information and then met up with DAVE that night after work. As I was setting up some snowplow steaks to make a grid pattern DAVE got a signal further to the south of his original search area. He was standing up in the water because the waves are about 2 1/2 foot high. He asked me to come over and examine the signal to see what it sounded like to me. Detector makes one tone for every target. I said it sounds good. I took two scoops to get it in my target pulled the ring out, handed it today for him to make the return to Laura.

 

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Lost engagement ring found in Arcadia Mi with a metal detector

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I received a call from Ruth that her son Henry and future daughter-in-law Garrity were in the water in Lake Michigan. Garrity felt her engagement ring slip off her finger. She and Henry frantically looked for the ring. The correct was too strong, and waves from Lake Michigan crashed into shore.

Ruth found me on The Ring Finders site and gave me a call. I agreed to meet after I got out of work that afternoon.

Once on site, I met with Henry and Garrity. They walked me to where the ring fell off Garrity’s finger. I had Garrity put a marker in the ground to give me a reference point to work from. I started a grid pattern, walking 10 feet to the drop-off, then turning around. As I turned around, I got a very faint gold signal. I thought this could not be the ring down this deep in 5 hours. That target turned out to be the ring. It was already down 5-6 inches after being lost for 5 hours. This is why ou have to get on calls as fast as possible. A combination of the strong river current and the incoming waves rove the ring down. If we had waited a couple of days, the ring would have been too deep to get with a detector.

This was a fun, quick recovery after work.

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Wedding ring lost in a local Traverse City lake for 20 days found with a metal detector

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I received a call from Jen about her husband losing his wedding ring in a local Traverse City lake.

The search area was a large sandbar area about waist-deep water. I had to use my boat to drive out to the area.

The first time I went to look for the ring, I had winds and big waves blowing across the area. I searched for about 3 hours without finding the ring.

I took my detecting buddy Dave the second time out because the search area was so large. Dave ended up finding the ring in the end of a log after about 2 hours of us searching.

 

 

 

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Lost ring in Frankfort, Mi found with a metal detector

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I received a text from Valerie saying her husband lost his wedding ring in a local river.

The ring was lost in the area of the SleepingBear Dunes Federal Park. Metal detectors are not allowed in the area. I work with the head ranger to get permission to use a metal detector in the area needed.

I went out the first time in the area Valerie highlighted without finding the ring. We talked and narrowed the search area down for the second trip to look for the ring. I was successful in finding the ring on the second trip to look for it.

Valerie and her husband were back home after vacation, so I ended up mailing the ring back to them.

 

 

 

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Lost ring in Long Lake Grand Traverse County, Mi found with a metal detector.

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I received a call from Dave about a sentimental ring lost in Long Lake in Grand Traverse County, Mi.

I knew from the story this is one ring I had to find. They thought the ring had flown off a finger by a sweeping motion with her hand.

I told Dave the ring is there, I would find it. The only issues are all the stuff in the water over the years to sort through.

I told him this could take 10 seconds or 10 hours. I did find a lot of stuff in the water. Old coins, matchbox cars, screws, bolts from the dock, washers, nuts, and a shotgun shell casing.

I searched the primary area they set out and did not find the ring. I then decided to search under the dock; after 2 hours of searching, I finally found the ring at the edge of the dock, making everybody very happy.

 

 

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Lost wedding ring found in the garden in Traverse City Michigan with a metal detector

  • from Traverse City (Michigan, United States)
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I received a call today from a very distraught Lisa. She was working outside today cleaning up leaves and also working in the garden. When she took a break, she noticed the wedding ring she inherited from her mother was missing from her finger. I arranged to meet her later in the day to search for the ring.

I met Lisa after work to do the search. She wanted me to start in the garden area surrounded by a metal fence. I got a lot of signals from the metal fence and metal stakes in the ground. I made one pass, turned to start my grid back the other way, and got the gold signal that I was looking for. I brushed the leaves away from the signal revealing the ring to Lisa. After Lisa said « no way » ten times, I told her these calls could take ten seconds or ten days. We got lucky with a short search. I had a fun time on this quick search and love the vintage looks of her ring.

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Lost ring found at the Torch Lake sand bar with a metal detector in Torch Lake, Michigan

  • from Traverse City (Michigan, United States)
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I received a call from Matt needing help finding his wedding ring. Matt was with family/friends enjoying the day drinking some adult beverages while throwing a football out at the Torch Lake sand bar. (I highly recommend people drinking adult beverage and throwing a football. Its very good for my business). On one of the throws, Matt noticed his ring flying through the air. He and his friends looked for the ring but could not find it. They did save a google location on Matt’s phone, making my job a lot easier. Matt sent me the google location they were anchored at. I reassured him, I was very familiar with the exact spot the ring was lost and finding it should not be that hard. I headed out to the Torch Lake sand bar right after work to start the search. I got to the spot and found 2 pontoon boats anchored on the spot.  It was just before dark when I arrived and they were packing up to leave for the night. I waited for them to leave, then went to the spot and found the ring in 10 minutes. Matt did a great job on saving his location.

Matt was already back home and wanted me to ship the ring back to him.

Matt thanks for trusting me to find your ring and the generous reward.

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Gold ring lost in Traverse City, Mi found in the water.

  • from Traverse City (Michigan, United States)
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I received a call from Katrina who needed help finding a ring she lost in shoulder deep water. She was kayaking and fell out of the kayak, loosing her ring and a silver bracelet. She found the bracelet, but could not find the gold ring.

I met Katrina and her family at their cottage on Grand Traverse Bay. We had to kayak a couple hundred yards to the area they were kayaking in. It was raining pretty heavily, making it difficult to see the bottom of the lake. Katrina’s husband had put a marker buoy out making the spot from the day before. He used a bucket with a large black rock in the. When we got to the spot the buoy and the bucket were gone. Katrina and her husband searched around the area and could not find the rock due to the waves and rain. I searched the general area gridding for about an hour then the rain stopped and the water cleared up. Katrina’s husband found the black rock and called me over. I started a new grid search around the black rock and found the ring about 10  minutes later.

Katrina it was a pleasure helping you and meeting your family. Thank you very much for the generous reward.

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