The Ring Finders
Metal Detecting Service Inc.

Aug. 11th I received an e-mail from Cassi saying her husband lost his wedding ring while swimming at the beach and asking if I could possibly help them find it. She said it was not your ordinary ring and that it was actually 3 white gold rings put together with a total of 19 diamonds!!! You can just imagine how devastated they were when they spent a half hour in waist deep water frantically searching and not able to locate it. I called her back right away after reading her e-mail and tried to get more information on the exact area and how long it had been since they lost the ring. The soonest I could get to that beach would be the following Saturday. If they could put me in as close as possible an area then I felt there was some hope of finding the ring. There had been no storms along the coast and the surf had been fairly calm so with a heavy ring like that there was a good chance it was still roughly in the same area, I hoped!

So the following Saturday I drove 2 hours to Fernandina Beach and was met by Micha and Cassi and we started right away trying to figure out just where they were when the ring came off. I spent 5 hours griding and searching in and out of the water with no luck! Around 3pm Cassi said they would be heading back home to Georgia and gave me my gas $ and asked me how much longer I would continue looking. Because I had the whole day off and was waiting for low tide I decided to keep searching for a few more hours. We said our goodbyes. Two hours later while griding the wet sand area I got a good signal and out of the sand pops this massive set of rings with sparkling diamonds!! I could not get to my phone fast enough to call Micha and Cassi and as they answered the phone I said “You’re right Cassi, your husbands ring is huge!!” I had to hold the phone away from my ear for all the shouts and hollering! It was an awesome experience to be able to find this ring and to return it to its rightful owners and to see and hear the joy and happiness it brought them.

So their story continues and my adventures are just starting!  Thanks to Chris Turner and  ”The Ring Finders” I have received phone calls and e-mails from folks near and far away asking if I can help them find their lost items.

I too really love my job!!

Lost something?

Call ASAP: Mike McInroe 321-363-6029

Michael lost his white gold wedding band while playing football on a sandbar in Lake Amelia. He watched it come off his finger and tried to retrieve it right away as he was in waiste deep water. No Luck, so he rented a metal detector and went back. Still no luck. He looked on the internet and found “The Ring Finders”. Lake Amelia is around 2 hours away from my place, so when I found the ring I decided to stay a little while longer and see if I could find any old relics from the 1800′s. A lot of shot gun shells and pop tabs and then came another gold wedding band. Anyone reading this blog, if you have lost a valuable and you remember the approx. location, no matter how long ago it was. I have found many rings and other valuables just searching for relics – I would Love to get them back to their rightful owners!

I recently went out to a local beach to hunt for a 16yr. old girls pinky ring. The ring wasn’t an expensive ring but it was given to her by her father on her 16 birthday and she had lost it recently at the beach in the sand. The father had given me pretty good directions as to where it had been lost the day before so i headed out the next day. I made a grid twice the area of which the father had told me, but no luck finding the ring. what I did findout was that there was another detectorist searching that area of the beach the evening the ring was lost and he had probably found it. Hopefully if the ring was found by another detectoris, perhaps he will post it in the lost & found section of the local paper. There was no ring turned in to the beach authorities recently. I sent off an email to let the father know that I did my best but was unsuccessful.
Looking forward to my next hunt!

On Sunday, August 8, I received a call from Melisa Mistler of Grass Valley, California. She explained that her new husband had lost his wedding ring in their front yard and inquired if I would drive to Grass Valley and attempt recovery. Melissa explained that she and her husband were newlyweds, but theirs was a very special situation. Melissa and her new husband, Michael Yates, had been childhood sweethearts. They did not date in high school but kept in touch while each was away at college. Sadly, after college they had lost track of one another. Melisa was the head of her high school reunion committee and it was her responsibility to locate and inform her classmates of each reunion, but Yates had been difficult to track down because he traveled the world before he eventually settled in Seattle, Washington. He never attended any of the high school reunions.

After college at Southwest Baptist in Missouri, Melisa returned to Nevada County and settled in Grass Valley where she opened her own business, M3Mall. Melisa recently collaborated with another high school classmate in a fundraiser for yet another classmate who is suffering from stage 4 colon cancer. Michael happened to see an article in the newspaper about the event which included a photo of Melisa. Michael decided to attend the fundraiser and on February 2, 2010, they were reunited . The old friends quickly rekindled their childhood romance, eloping on March 12, 2010!

They were distressed that Michael had lost his traditional Claddagh ring which had been ordered from Ireland. The elements of this symbolic ring are often said to correspond to the qualities of love (the heart), friendship (the hands), and loyalty (the crown). Melisa and Michael had thoroughly searched the yard, but had been unable to find the ring that symbolized the special love that had lasted all the years Michael and Melisa were apart. I told Melisa that I would be happy to come to Grass Valley and try to locate the ring for them. When I arrived at Melisa’s address, a lovely old Victorian home, I set up and began a grid search of the front yard area where she and Michael thought the ring might have been lost. Within an hour, I had recovered the ring, along with a full set of keys – which oddly did not belong to the couple. I was happy that I was able to locate the Claddagh for Michael and Melisa. It is a special ring for a special couple with a very special story.

Jason contacted me with a huge problem. He had been married 3 days and his wedding ring slipped off his finger while swimming in square lake. I know from experience that this lake is hunted frequently by detectorists, so..getting the hunt under way as soon as possible was critical. I cleared my schedule for the next day and asked him to meet me out at the lake to pinpoint where he was swimming as this is a very large beach. He did his job! It took me less then 5 minutes and I had his ring in my basket. This is one of the nicest rings I have seen – Take care Jason and I am so glad I could help out!