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Lost Gold Ring at White Pines Lake in Poco…Found!
After a couple of nice sunny summer days (finally) the phone started to ring. This young man had lost his white gold wedding band in five feet of water at White Pine Beach in Poco. This lake is beautiful and you are not allowed to search here without permission. I received permission to find the ring and leave, this was good news as you could imagine how important it was for him to have it found. He’d only been married for nine months and I could tell how bad he felt about losing his ring. My only chance of finding his ring would be if it was in the first 5 feet of water, as I don’t dive…But we do have a diver from Squamish who would’ve come out to help, if it was deeper then I could search. I started my search and it was pretty quite with only a couple of signals before I got the loud proud signal that turned out to be his white gold wedding band.
Because the young man took reference marks of the area the ring was lost in, it made my job so much easier! This could have taken many hours of searching if he didn’t mark the area the ring was lost…That being said after this quick search I headed out on another water search where someone had lost their ring but couldn’t tell me where it came off their finger…The search area was as long as a soccer field and I spent 5 hours with no luck…So if you think I find everything, I don’t, I can only find what is there to be found.
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Found..Lost Gold Ring at English Bay Beach, Vancouver BC
Last night I went to sleep at 11:45 pm and I was planning on getting up at 3:am to go to the beach with a friend and do a beach hunt.
Minutes before midnight I awake to a phone call…911… someone lost their ring at the beach and wanted to know if I could help find it.
After taking notes of the location the ring was lost at I decide to search for it ASAP so that no one else would find it before I got there.
I get up and make a coffee and get ready to hit the road…The great thing was that it was the same beach my friend and I were going to at 4 am that morning. I wasn’t going to wake him up early so I went there to find the ring then come back to pick up my friend.
I get to the beach and I can see hand prints all over the sand in the area the ring was lost at, I know that I’m in the right spot, so I start my search.
After 10 minutes of searching in the dark at around 1:15 am I get a loud strong signal. I sink the scoop into the nice dry sand and I watched the sand sift through the scoop until I could see the beautiful color of gold!
After I returned home from the beach I had 30 minutes to make another coffee and get ready to pick up my friend and head back out to the beach.
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Found, Lost platinum wedding ring in West Vancouver
I received a call from a young man that owns a landscaping company here in West Vancouver. He said that he’d lost his platinum wedding ring of ten years some where in his clients back yard.
He rented a metal detector and searched with 4 of his employees for over 4 hours but didn’t find the ring. He then went on his smart phone and found ”The Ring Finders” (That is a smart phone!)
We made arrangements to me meet later in the day, when I arrived he showed me the area he believed the ring was lost in and I began my search. Only minutes later I found his wedding band, needless to say he was excited but couldn’t understand why he couldn’t find it as he and his employees were searching for hours in the same location…
I have had close to 70% of the people who hire me rent metal detectors first and after searching for hours give up the search and call me. My equipment is much better then the ones they rent and also it could be a little overwhelming for the person who has never used a metal detector.
Every ring has a story and it’s always a great feeling to help continue that story for the people I help.
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Lost Gold Ring at Wreck Beach, Vancouver…Found!
Today at work I received a call from a young man who lost his wedding band (common-law) at Wreck Beach yesterday. He explained that he took it off and put it in his pack so that he wouldn’t lose it.
That being said he went into his pack four times to get something out and it was in four different locations on the beach. I met Ben and his lovely wife to search the locations in hope that I could reunite him with his ring.
The first location on the beach (Nude Beach) was at the far end where he felt it could be, 20 minutes and some pocket change near a log and nothing. We move to the second location, another log closer to the middle of the beach. Within seconds of turning on my detector I found his ring…Smiles all around!
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Lost Wedding Band on Cypress Mountain, West Vancouver…Found!
Its been a slow start to spring and summer this year as we haven’t had a spring or summer yet…Heck we didn’t even have a winter! That being said the snow stayed on the mountains and that’s where I went for a few hours, a couple of weekends ago.
I found the usual change ($30.00) and a few silver pieces and lots of crapy metal things. I was packing it up for the day and as I was driving away the parking lot grabbed my attention as I started to wonder what could’ve been plower to the side with all the snow. I drove about a 100 yards and stopped my car and got out to walk alongside the road to see if I could spot anything.
Well I walked no further the 10 feet past my car and looked down a spotted a gold wedding band in the dirt and gravel…
I didn’t even have my detector, talk about when its meant to be! The great thing about this ring was that there was a name and the wedding date inscribed on the inside of the band.
I left the mountain and when I got home I posted the find on the craigslist in hopes that maybe the person would find me. The hardest thing is finding the owner if they haven’t contacted me to do the search. Most people just give up! I was at work and it hit me…Call the Ski Resort and see if anyone has reported it lost. This was a great idea as someone had, well we met today and he has his lost ring of nearly 4 months back on his finger.
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Lost Diamond Ring in Burnaby, BC…Found! New-Video Added
Yesterday I got a call from a young man who wanted me to come out and take a look for a lost diamond ring that was a gift from his father. This was a special ring as the young mans grandfather had given it to his father many years before. Losing the ring as you could imagine was heart breaking!
He had rented a metal detector the day before I got there and spent many hours searching but had no luck finding the ring. That’s when he went online and found my directory “The Ring Finders” We discussed the search over the phone and I was thinking that I had a 50-50 chance of finding the ring as he didn’t know if it came off where he thought it did.
When I arrived at his place and he showed me the area where he thought it could be, my feeling was if it was there I’d find it, if not, I’d give him closure. 15 minutes into the search and no ring where he thought it might be, I decided to expand my search in the opposite direction and that was a good thing as I found his beautiful diamond ring!
The young man was so grateful and happy and I was too, it always feels good to find what you’re looking for and help continue that story that the ring came with…
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Lost Diamond Ring in South West Vancouver… Blog & Video
Tonight I received a call from a young lady who lost a very special ring, it was her diamond ring and she was heart broken that it was lost.
I was told by Jen that the ring came off when she was feeding crows from her patio, on the 4th floor of their apartment. When she was throwing the food to the crows her ring came off, she feared it may have landed on the apartment roof next door.
We did a few test throws with a ring I gave her, this gives me the general direction and I started my search. Within 15 minutes I got a great signal that fell into the gold reading on my Whites XLT metal detector.
I moved some leafs and snow and saw the glint of white gold, I bent down to take a closer look and I could see the ring that was stuck into the ground, as it was walked on for sure by Jen and her boyfriend who had spent many hours with a rented metal detector, but had no luck finding the ring.
I was very happy to have found the ring for Jen, Its nice to know its back where it belongs. It was nice meeting you Jen & Ryan! Thank you for generous reward Jen!
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Chris Turner
Lost platinum wedding band in the snow… B.C.I.T, Burnaby
Wedding band lost in the snow
It snowed pretty hard today and I was running around with my wife getting some stuff read for work next week, I got a call from a young man that had lost his platinum wedding band in the snow at B.C.I.T (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
He told me that he had a good area were he believed his ring came off, also that 5 people had stopped to help him search for his lost ring for close to one hour, with no luck.
We made plans to meet and search for the ring and we met an hour later. I started the grid search and 10 minutes into the search I asked him if he could get a ring out of my truck so we could do a test with it.
Just as he was going to the truck I received a good signal and kicked the snow to see his wedding band looking back up at me!
Thick Platinum Ring Lost in Snow
Needles to say he was very happy to see his ring, it only took 10 minutes to find it and he was in a bit of a rush to pick up his daughter from school, so it worked out well.
He was a very nice young man and I was very happy to help him find his wedding band of 6 years…
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Video of the search below…
Lost… 3 Platinum Rings at Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island…Found
I received a call from the Concierge at the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino, Vancouver Island. He asked if I could help search for 3 platinum rings that were tossed into the ocean at Chesterman Beach, beside their inn.
He tells me that 3 days past from the time the young lady from London England tossed her rings into the ocean. He helped the couple by getting them a metal detector so they could search the next morning for the rings.
The coupled searched most of the day but had no luck in finding the rings. They were leaving the next day to New York, they would leave Tofino broken hearted!
After the couple left to New York, the Concierge (Damien) began to search the internet to see if he could locate someone to help find those 3 lost rings.
This is where I come into play, he finds TheRingFinders.com online, he tells me the story of the lady and her lost rings. I know I have to act fast as the waves on that beach can get very big in the winter time and that could pound the rings deep into the sand, beyond the reach of a detector.
My wife who hasn’t picked up a detector since we were hunting in the UK (Spoiled) many years ago, wanted to come and help. This was great because she could help grid search and we could knock it out fast, we needed to because of the tides.
Close to 4 hours and only a couple of trash targets I got a good signal. I dug down with my sand scoop and placed the lump of sand on the beach and with my headlight I could see the sparkle of diamonds!
I found the platinum diamond engagement ring! I yelled out to Beverley and she came running, we were so happy and we called Trish in New York to tell them the good news.
We regained our composure and Beverley started to do a corkscrew grid search where I found the ring and within minutes she got a signal 5 yards away and scooped up the platinum wedding band…
This was the tough one because it was so small and thin and it was already 4-5 inches down, good find by Beverley!
Well we were excited and hopeful that we would find the 3rd ring and within 5 minutes and about 15 yards away I found the Aquamarine platinum ring…
We were so happy to find all 3 rings and excited to email the pictures of our discovery to Trish & James. We got a call early the next morning and Trish & James were happy, happy!
Things happen in our lives that make us do funny things that we regret… That being said the rings have more memories now and the last memory was how good it felt to get them back!
We started back to Vancouver and as luck would have it we got stuck in traffic for hours due to snow storms and white outs. We did make it to the ferry and dropped the rings off to Trish’s friends in West Vancouver who will be going to London in a weeks time…
Beverley and I had a great time on this search and the Hero in all of this , in our opinion, is the Concierge at the Wickaninnish Inn (Damien) Because if he hadn’t found The Ring Finders Directory, the rings would be lost forever!
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Video of the search below…
-Video- Chesterman Beach…3 Lost Platinum Rings in Tofino, Vancouver Island…Found!
This video is a search for 3 lost rings at Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island