Lost gold wedding ring, FOUND! Wildwood Crest, New Jersey By Ringfinder Jeffrey Laag






Andrea was spending the day at the beach with her family. Her kids and other kids near by were having fun playing and digging in the sand. Time to go and ooops, her phone is missing. In searching best as she could, still no phone would go home. I was contacted later and received the details I needed to conduct the search. There was still a « find my phone » signal coming from the loss area, so, it’s likely still there. Andrea was not able to meet me there at that time, but, I wanted to jump on it right away as that beach gets detected often. With the directions I needed, I set up a grid area as best I could considering that there were lots of people in that area that might be in the way. I started in the open spots before having to ask people to move. Luckily, I got a great booming signal on my Equinox 900 after only a couple of passes. It read pretty deep though and I thought it was just going to be a quarter or an aluminum can. Well, over a foot down, I found her phone, still on and still working! It must have fallen into one of the many holes dug by the children. A text later found a happy Andrea going to get her phone back. A pleasure to meet you and thank you for the reward.

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I received a frantic call from a lovely woman who was absolutely distraught. Oh no, she’d lost her diamond wedding ring set at St. Augustine Beach, Florida.
She explained that she had been refinishing furniture in her garage and, to protect them, slipped her rings into her back pant pocket. Deciding to take a break, she headed to the beach to walk her dogs. She also put a dog poop bag in the same pocket. Somewhere along their walk, several blocks down the beach, she pulled out the dog poop bag. When she got home, she realized her wedding rings were gone.
I immediately met her, and we walked up and down the beach. She desperately tried to retrace her steps, hoping to pinpoint where she might have pulled out the plastic bag, thinking that’s when the rings fell out. I searched the area for several hours, but unfortunately, had no luck. Due to the rising tide, I had to return the next day to continue the search across the large area. Again, no luck, though I was quite certain that if the rings had been lost in the areas we searched, I would have found them.
The lady was incredibly thankful for all my efforts but told me she had given up hope of ever finding them. I reassured her to never give up hope, promising I would continue my search. That night, I lost sleep, racking my brain for other possible locations.
Early the next morning, I called her and told her I was heading back to St. Augustine. I suggested we search her garage, even though she was convinced the rings were lost on the beach.
Her wedding set was located right there, under the workbench in her garage. She had tears of joy!

Daniel found me in The Ring Finders directory after losing a very sentimental white gold, diamond stud earring while playing beach volleyball in Philadelphia, PA. The pair of earrings were given to him years before by his parents. Anyone who has been around metal detecting for a while, especially us Ring Finders, knows that finding stud earrings with any metal detector can be a challenge…and honestly this search put all my skills to the test. Diamond stud earrings are just so small and have such little metal on them they are hard to pick up with any machine. I met Daniel and brought 2 of my 4 machines…I brought the new highly advanced Minelab Manticore with a 15 inch coil and my Minelab Equinox 800 with the 6 inch coil. The nice thing is that Daniel had an identical earring still in his possession so I could scan it and see if either of my machines would pick it up. I placed the earring on the ground and tried scanning it with the Manticore…NOTHING! Couldn’t get a peep with sensitivity all the way up in any mode! Then tried the Equinox not a peep in my usual modes…field or park. Then i switched the Equinox to gold prospecting mode and bam….was able to get it pretty good….VDI 1-2 up to 4-5 inches away from the coil. I started scanning the beach volleyball court…in short order i actually found 2 other earring backs…neither from Daniel’s earring…but at least I had the machine settings right. I probably dug 15-20 tiny bits of tin foil…amazing how sensitive the machine was behaving. I was at it for 55 minutes and committed to Daniel I would search for an hour. I stopped and asked him one more time where he was standing when a ball hit his ear and knocked the earring out….I would use the last 5 minutes in that area. With 60 seconds to spare I’m going to dig this one last signal …..BOOM….There was his beautiful diamond earring…in all my years I don’t think i whooped and hollered as I did right then! I was so happy to be successful and be able to get Daniel’s precious earring back in his possession!!!


