engagement ring Tag
Lost Engagement Ring Found on Baker Beach San Francisco using GPS
Liam and Sarah with the lost ring, now found
Steph contacted me from Austin, Texas after returning home from a trip to San Francisco. While here, she had enjoyed a day on the beach with friends, and took off her grandmother’s engagement ring to apply sunscreen. She set the ring on the blanket, got distracted, and didn’t notice it was missing until back at the hotel. Steph tried looking the next day, but the ring was lost in the sand.
Steph found Ringfinders a few days later. We planned to meet her friend Sarah at the beach, so that she could show us where to search with our metal detectors. Then Sarah remembered that during the day on the beach, she had used the map feature on her iPhone to send their location to other friends who were on the way. Bingo! The map had GPS coordinates of the blanket’s exact location when the ring was lost!
We met Sarah and her fiance Liam at 7:15pm, a half hour before sunset. It turns out that Liam had also used his phone to send a map to other friends, so we had TWO phones with GPS coordinates of the hunt location! By the time we arrived, Sarah and Liam had already drawn a rectangle defining our search area. We found the ring within five minutes, buried near the center of the rectangle. Way to go, Liam and Sarah!
Immediately Sarah took a photo of the ring, and used her iPhone to send it to Steph. It turns out that Steph was at a wedding reception in Austin, and got very excited when she got the photo. She showed it to everyone at the table, and texted back that she was very happy.
We enjoyed the sunset with Sarah and Liam, then headed home happy.
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Steph's heirloom engagement ring
GPS map from Sarah's iPhone
Lost Wedding Ring Found in East Bay Back Yard
CJ was happy when we found her gold and diamond wedding ring
CJ called me when, after spending a whole afternoon weeding and cleaning her back yard, she noticed her wedding ring was missing. The good news was, she hadn’t left her 100-year-old East Bay home since she last saw the ring. The other news was, she had worked in every part of the back yard and side yard, including the wood pile, compost piles and green waste bin.
It was nearly a week before I could detect the yard, because we’ve had a lot of rain. When I arrived, CJ showed me everywhere she had worked that day. I focused on the main yard, where CJ had done the most work, including a lot of weeding. On one side of the yard were two compost piles, each about five feet wide. My initial scans turned up lots of metal junk, including nails, screws, lead, aluminum and brass. I can tell my metal detector to ignore certain metals like iron, but that’s not always a good idea, because you can also lose faint gold signals that way.
I got a lot of signals in one low spot between the two compost piles. Most showed up as iron, but another signal was also evident. I dug into the soft dirt and pulled out a total of six nails and deck screws, and there were still more signals coming through. Target number seven turned out to be CJ’s beautiful gold and diamond wedding ring.
Amazingly, the ring was 4-5 inches underground. Because the compost piles were loose and soft, dirt had washed down into the low area during the rain. Early searches could have buried it deeper. The moral of this story is, don’t disturb the area where you lose your ring, and dig everything!
Here’s what CJ had to say:
“Thank you Dave! If I hadn’t been watching – the entire time - I would not have believed how and where you found my wedding ring, today!
“There it was amid the wood screws and rusty old nails under almost 6 inches of mud after only 5 days of rain. Your experience, patience, and expertise, really saved the day! A less experienced detector may have dismissed the cache of metal screws and the ring would have been lost to me, perhaps forever.
“We are so relieved and so grateful. I will be happy to recommend you to anyone.”
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Gold and diamond wedding ring lost in East Bay back yard
The gold wedding ring was hidden among nails and screws
Two calls in two days. Lost rings, Tauranga and Lake Taupo New Zealand
Well, you just never know … I haven’t had a call for months and suddenly I received two calls in two days from distraught owners who had lost their rings. They found my details after doing a quick google search and coming up with theringfinders.com!
The first job was in Tauranga, which is over 2 hours drive from my location. The couple, Will and Rebecca Cass, had emptied a bag into the garden on private property and the platinum ring dropped out and immediately disappeared into the undergrowth. Before I arrived, they had searched the location for hours and removed a large amount of the leaves and branches. I arrived and carefully scanned the area. There was a lot of rusted iron flakes which made my Garrett Pro Pointer pretty well redundant. I set my Garrett ACE 250 to the jewelery setting and went to work. I eventually made my way to the deck area and there was only enough room to get my arm and the pointer under there. The LED light on the pointer was invaluable for this exercise. I fished out a bottle top, some metal fragments, and finally I started picking up a signal in a hole full of leaves and mud. The LED light caught a glimpse of shinny metal and, bingo! There it was. The owners were absolutely relieved and thrilled and they were extremely generous with a reward!
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The second call was a similar case, except they were two white gold and diamond rings which fell out of a bag and were quickly swallowed up by the gravelly volcanic sand that lines the beaches of Lake Taupo. Donnee and Daniel Murray spent a long time searching for them, but finally they gave up hope, until they came across theringfinders.com! I was unable to get there until late the following evening. It was raining, but I find this is a nice quiet time to get on with the job. I was shown an approximate area they could be and within seconds got the first signal. The first ring indicated 5 inches under the sand and I found it after using a sand shovel with holes and my Garrett Pointer. I was surprised it had already gone so deep, but the more the sand got disturbed on the surface, the deeper the ring would work its way down. The second ring was found a couple of minutes later at about the same depth about 30cm away. The owners partner was present and took the rings home to a very, very happy lady!
TESTIMONIAL FROM TAURANGA
Dear Tony
On behalf of my wife and I may I say thanks once again for what you did which was nothing short of a miracle as far as we are concerned. Its more than the hi-tec electronic gear you have, you are actually a ‘ring-finder’ not just a guy with a metal detector. The way you methodically searched and found the ring using a process of elimination was astounding. Your manor and professionalism were also much appreciated, we only wish you could have stayed for lunch! But considering you drove 2 hours each way on your day off to help us because we were on holiday,… we are deeply thankful you responded to our call.
Cheers Tony I we are delighted to recommend your services to anybody who needs anything found!
Lost and Found Ring in Southwest Florida (Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva Island, Marco Island, Estero, Bonito Springs, Naples, Venice, Sarasota, Cape Coral)
From simple gold rings or bracelets to diamond-encrusted wedding bands… if you have a pretty good idea of where the item might be, I have the skill, equipment, experience and patience to find it for you.
I’ll meticulously search grid patterns in and around the area… on land or in the water. So, don’t just give up on finding your valuables!
I can be reached at: Larry.Spearing@TheRingFinders.com
Found Wedding & Engagement Rings at The Dog Park, Kits Beach.
Just before I was getting ready to call it a night I received an email that a young lady had lost both her wedding & engagement rings at the dog park at Kits Beach. I emailed the person right away and asked them to call me, minutes later we were discussing the search.
Because the rings were lost at such a high risk area…(beach and by a log) I knew that we’d have to get out ASAP to search for the rings. The young man agreed to meet me at 11:45 pm, we met and he showed me the area he thought the rings would be in…
After a few swings of my metal detector and no rings I began to move to the front of the log where they never searched for the rings and within a minute I found one of the rings…
Minutes after the wedding ring was found I found the engagement ring! Smiles all around! The rings were not where he thought they’d be but its my job to think of why they’re not there and expand my search area. For some reason the rings were deep! After discussing the search he told me that they have a 70 lb. dog that was play right were the rings where found…
I love my job!
Lost something please call ASAP!
You can watch the video of the search below…
Lost Engagement Ring Found on Beach in Eastham, Cape Cod, MA
Others using several different detectors over many hours had search the beach area during a ten day period before I had my chance to detect the area. In an hour and forty minutes on the beach I dug over 50 pull tabs and bottle caps before locating the platinum ring holding onto its nine beautiful diamonds. Somehow it had hidden from the onslaught and waited for me to unearth it from beneath 5 inches of wet sand, just one inch above the water table. Cell calls to Maine and frantic runs up the hill for better reception to communicate correct information culminated in another Happy Ending with a big Smile on Nicole’s face for my memory book. I will also cherish the wonderful hand made ceramic crab ornament and two candy dishes I was given.
Lost diamond ring Bradford Beach, Milwaukee… FOUND!
An innocent flip of a beach towel catapulted Pamela’s precious ring into the abyss of endless loose sand. Despite her best search efforts, and those of her friends, the ring seemed destined to never to grace her finger again. And its story might well have ended were it not for the phone call Pamela made to a Wisconsin member of The Ring Finders.–Paul Humphreys. After hearing Pamela’s story, Paul arranged to meet her the next afternoon at Bradford Beach on the shores of Lake Michigan near downtown Milwaukee. Pamela pointed out a living-room sized area close to the water’s edge whee she believed the highly sentimental token made its fatal leap. After only 10-minutes of searching with his Whites XLT Metal Detector, the ring’s hiding place was no match for the detector and Paul’s skills. What a joy to present yet another lost ring to its overjoyed owner! And as his practice, 25% of the reward he received, is donated to the Waukesha Memorial Hospital, the medical facility that helped Paul return to his love of metal detecting after battling serious cancer.
4 Platinum Wedding & Engagement Rings Recovered by Ringfinders Ed Cropski on beach in Avalon,New Jersey
I was contacted by a man this week whose wife had happen to lose her 4 platinum wedding and engagement rings on the beach after she removed them to put sunscreen on their child and putting them in the pocket of her shorts which were on their beach towel Not realizing that the rings were missing until later that night when they got home,they immediately returned to the beach with friends and family marking their location and raking and searching the sand.They even rented metal detectors the following day but had no success.Searching the internet they found the Ring Finders website and contacted me 2 days later.I made arrangements to meet them at the site and search the area.After a brief description I began searching a gridded off area and 15 in we had recovered the first ring about 4 inches in the sand.Realizing that in the past 2 days the beach screen tractor had plowed the beach we expanded our area and 45 minutes later the 3 other rings were located within 4 feet of eachother, actually inline with the first ring recovered about 30 feet away.The owners were amazed that the rings were found and just thought it was a miracle and were over joyed.I must say it was a great feeling to help the couple out in this situation.Also I would like to say Thank you ! once again for your generous reward and interest in promoting not only my service but the Ring Finders metal detecting service as a whole.I advised them not to wear the rings to the beach which they easily accepted.Have a great day!