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Lost Diamond Wedding Ring Found on Beach at Half Moon Bay
Lost diamond wedding ring found at Half Moon Bay
Today Prarthna called me from New Jersey. She and her husband visited California last week and had a wonderful time. On the way back to San Francisco International Airport they stopped at the beach on Half Moon Bay. It was there in the deep sand that Prarthna felt her diamond wedding ring slip off her finger.
This was not a typical wedding ring, either. Prarthna’s husband had studied diamonds and hunted for four months to find the perfect stone, then had the ring custom made for the stone. The ring had great sentimental value to both of them.
Late this afternoon, I met her friend Navdeep who had been at the beach with them the day the ring was lost. He showed me where Prarthna had been walking when the ring slipped off her finger. We marked a search zone in the sand, and most importantly, he climbed up a hill to sit at the same bench he was sitting at when she lost it. Using a hardy bush growing in the sand as a landmark, he directed me to stand on the sight line where he remembered seeing Prarthna. The intersection of the search zone and this line of sight identified the place where he felt the ring most likely landed.
I carefully gridded the search zone and triple searched it without luck. The sand was very clean, suggesting that other metal detector users had already cleared out the pull tabs, bottle caps and other metallic trash that we find at most beaches. But I did find four coins, so we remained hopeful.
Next I started searching south from the search zone, not far off the sight line. On my first pass, I got a low tone that usually means aluminum or gold. This time it was Prathna’s ring, four inches deep in the sand. Look at the photo below, you can see how beautiful it is. Navdeep had done a good job showing me where to search. Prarthna was very happy when we called her with the news that we had found her ring.
“Gold Ring Found”…..After 9 Months of Hiding. Toronto,Ontario
Julia called me last night about a gold and opal ring that was lost nine months ago.
The ring is a family heirloom ring that was given to Julia and she had planned to wear it as a wedding ring for her up
Julia was gardening last year in her backyard but she wasn’t wearing the ring, she had left it in the house so it wouldn’t get dirty.
Later on, Matt brought the ring out to her and left it on a patio table near the garden so she could wear it later.
They then left the house for a while and Matt realized that Julia wasn’t wearing the ring, so they went back to the house to get it, but it was no longer on the table They figured it had gotten knocked off when they were moving things around and didn’t notice the ring fall.
After looking for quite some time with no luck, they assumed it was lost forever.
Julia was thinking about the ring again recently and a quick google search led her to me.
I was able to make it down to their home this morning, Monday May 14,2012 where I met with Matt.
Matt, happy to see the ring again..!!!!
Julia couldn’t be there as she had to work today.
After Matt took me through the events of the day nine months ago, I started the search.
I was finding tons of scrap metal everywhere and had to dig every little piece just in case it was masking the ring.
Well, after about 30 minutes I got that nice solid tone that got my hopes up. After pinpointing the area, and digging down about one inch, out pops Julia’s beautiful gold and opal ring.
Matt was a little shocked I think that we actually found it. He had a great look on his face.
The ring should clean up nicely after a quick bath, ready to wear for the wedding.
I’m really happy I could help out today.
The best to you both on your upcoming wedding.
Take care,
Mark Ellis
Diamond Ring Found…..!!! Toronto,Ontario.
Late last night, I had a call from a gentleman that was very upset and distraught about his wife’s engagement ring that had been lost.
We spoke on the phone again early this morning, Tuesday May 8,2012, and I was able to get over to their home for 10:00 am.
Once at the house, the husband had told me that his wife had been mowing the lawn in the back yard and at some point she had felt the diamond and platinum engagement ring fall off of her finger.
His wife then came out to the backyard
to meet me and I could tell that she was devastated about her ring. She was crying and shaking she was so upset. I felt so bad for her it was breaking my heart to see her like that. I knew I would find her ring, it was just a matter of time.
I went back to the car to get my gear, set up, and began a grid search of where she had started to cut the grass. She stopped me at one point, and said “Please find my ring for me”. She was crying still, and I told her that I would not go home until she had her ring back, even if I had to camp out in her backyard for the night.
Well, about one minute later after continuing the grid search, I got that beautiful, smooth, solid signal that makes your heart race.
I took out my pin-pointer, located the target and parted the grass.
Wow..!! There was a massive diamond ring staring back at me. I called her over and said I have to leave now. She looked at me confused and I said I’m going home now……my job is finished.
I said “do you recognize this” and pointed to her ring. She looked amazed and bent down to pick up her ring. As soon as she picked it up, it went right back on her finger and then she started giving me the biggest hugs I’ve had in my life. What a great moment..!! To watch her go from despair to elation in seconds makes this the best job in the world..!!
I’m so happy I could help you out today.
I hope you enjoy your beautiful ring for years to come.
All the best.
Take care,
Mark Ellis
Lost Platinum Wedding Ring Found in San Mateo County
Lost platinum wedding ring found in San Mateo County
Last Saturday, Carl was working around his home in San Mateo County. After a full day of chores, he noticed that his platinum wedding ring was missing. The good news was, he hadn’t left his property all day, so he knew the ring had to be somewhere in the yard. The other good news was, he found RingFinders, the metal detector experts.
Two of us arrived to give Carl’s property a thorough search. In some cases, the recovery takes hours of searching, but not this time. We pulled Carl’s platinum wedding band out of the thick grass on the side of his home within about ten minutes.
Because rings are so dense, when they fall they immediately sink down to the ground level beneath all the blades of grass, where they are practically invisible. Carl’s lawn was healthy and thick, so the ring was completely hidden, even when you looked straight at it. But metal detectors can “see” right through grass, dirt and sand to find missing rings.
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Video of the story that aired on ABC-7 News in Ft. Myers, Florida
Here’s a link to a story ABC-7′s Paul Gessler did about me finding Mya’s Daddy’s wedding ring in the Gulf of Mexico: http://www.abc-7.com/global/story.asp?s=18067257
Lost Ring Found in Saratoga
Lost Ring Found in Saratoga
Today we received a call from a client in Saratoga, a small Bay Area town near Los Gatos and Cupertino. She had just lost a beautiful handmade gold ring from India, while pruning a large jasmine bush in her front yard. She had searched for a metal detector expert on the web, and found us.
When we arrived, we found that the jasmine bush was indeed large-it was a sphere nearly six feet in diameter, and very dense. Our detectors can only scan to a maximum of 8-12 inches deep, so we were a bit worried. First we scanned the entire surface of the bush and an area in the ground around it, and also poked our detectors into the bush as far as they would go. Then our client told us we could easily untie the bush from its pole supports and flip the whole thing over. Once we did this, we scanned the whole bush again without any luck.
Then we scanned the area directly beneath the jasmine, around the area where the stems emerged from the ground. This area had been completely covered by the bush when we arrived. Bingo! Buried in about an inch of leaves and debris, we found the ring, and it was as beautiful as the client had described. The top of the ring featured a carved image of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. Not a very common ring in the Bay Area!
If you lose a ring in your back yard, or in bushes or planters, try not to disturb the area while you are searching-step gently! You want to avoid causing your lost item to move very far from it’s resting place. In this case, the ring was directly underneath the jasmine bush, but we’ve recovered items thirty feet or more from where they were lost. They were accidentally kicked there by overly enthusiastic searchers. Call us quickly and we’ll find it for you!
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Wedding Band Found…!!! Pickering, Ontario.
Tom called me yesterday afternoon and told me that he had lost his gold wedding band earlier in the day doing some yard work around his home.
I was able to make it out to Tom’s home this morning, Tuesday May 1,2012.
This was my second straight search in my hometown of Pickering.
I could get used to all my searches being so close to home.!
Anyway, Tom re-created what he had been doing around the house the day before, like picking up and bagging some yard waste and also re-attaching sprinkler heads around the lawn and gardens, both at the front and back of the house.
I grabbed my gear and we decided to eliminate the bagged yard waste first.
After thoroughly checking both bags without a signal, I moved off
to the backyard to check around the sprinkler heads….nothing.
Then, the backyard was searched and still nothing.
We then moved off to the side of the house where Tom had been trying to wrestle a bush out of the way yesterday, trying to get one of the sprinkler heads re-attached.
Tom held the bush out of the way for me as I scanned the area, and suddenly I got the signal we were looking for. I grabbed my pin-pointer, located the target and popped it out of some grass clippings and leaves….. there was Tom’s gold wedding band.
After sleeping under the stars for a night, Tom’s ring is now safely back on his finger.
Really happy I could come and help you out today Tom..!!!
Take care,
Mark Ellis
$50,000 Diamond Ring Found Omaha, NE
While at work I received an unexpected phone call form an insurance agent asking if I was still looking for rings. He then begins to tell me that he has a client who has lost a 3.4 carat diamond ring valued at $50,000 dollars and if I would be interested in looking for it, I think I said “yes”. He put me in contact with his client and we arranged to meet that afternoon.
By the time 3 pm rolled around the weather had gone from sunny and 60 to raining and 50 degrees. Unfortunately I had left the house without even a jacket. A quick stop at the store and I had a jacket off the clearance rack, a rain suit, and umbrella. I met the owner at the soccer complex, with umbrellas in hand we went out to where she was at two nights ago. After hearing her story I was confident it was lost on the complex and fairly confident nobody had simply picked it up.
She went on her way and I got geared up to begin the search. The rain came and went but the temperature continued to drop. I started my search along the sidewalk but stopped after about 30 feet. With roughly 500 feet of sidewalk, a couple hundred sq ft of soccer field, and only a few hours to hunt. I opted to concentrate around the soccer field where I figured she probably dropped it. By the time I finished looking around the soccer field, my shoes and gloves were soaked and I was chilled to the bone. I decided to warm up a bit and started covering the sidewalk on my way back to the car, deciding to skip the last field because there was a poor group of 10 year old girls playing in that miserable weather.
Looking out into the chilly haze I thought about giving it up for the evening. Then my phone rang it was Joe, I had invited him to come along for the hunt. He was all geared up and would be there in a couple of minutes…..great. His enthusiasm would curtail after a couple hours in this miserable weather. He started hunting the opposite side of the sidewalk on his way out back out to the soccer field, while I drove and hit up another clearance rack for a warmer shirt and dry socks. We hunted another 2 hours, with his enthusiasm chilled we decided to quit for the evening.
I knew the last chance would be the following evening (Friday), on the weekend there would be a thousand people at these fields. I started with the sidewalk again covering the little bit of area I skipped the night before. Not more than 100 feet and 15 minutes, I had a good signal…. pulled back the grass and saw the shiny item I was searching for. I immediately called the owner and let her know that I found something she might be interested in and made arrangements the following day to return it. I then placed a call to the insurance company, I’m not sure which one was happier.
Daughter’s Hand Once Fit Inside Dad’s Lost Wedding Ring, Recovered From The Gulf, off Naples, Florida!
Newborn Daughter's Hand in Dad's Wedding Ring
Every Father’s wedding ring is special. But, when Matt Wilson called us on Valentine’s Day and sent us this photo of his newborn daughter’s hand, easily fitting inside his ring… we knew we had to find it for him!
His miracle baby daughter, Mya, now a happy, healthy young girl, was born 12 weeks early and weighed in at only 1 pound, 10.8 ounces.
Now, years later, while having a photographer shoot their first family portrait, on a beach in Naples, Florida, Matt’s ring ended up in the drink!
He searched for the ring for hours, but ended up having to fly home without it. Then, thanks to TheRingfinders website, Matt was able to find us and sent us a map of the area and the photo of the ring.
It took three trips out to the area, but I was able to find it and return it to the family.
”I still remember the day I got the voice mail from him. I didn’t listen to the entire message, because I heard him say, ‘Hey Matt its Larry. I think I have some good news for you…’. I called him back and he read me the date off the inside of the ring. It was amazing! I had given up hope of it being found… but Larry came through for us!” - Matt Wilson
Gold Wedding Band Found..!! Pickering,Ontario
This afternoon, I received a call from Mark who told me that he had lost his gold wedding band today while doing some yard work around his home.
Mark sounded a little bit stressed, and when he began to tell me the story I could see why.
Today is Mark’s 15th wedding anniversary..!!
Probably the worst day imaginable to lose your wedding band.
I knew I had to find it for him.
As it turns out, I live very close to Mark’s house and left home as soon as we hung up the phone.
I arrived about 10 minutes later and met Mark and his lovely wife. I then had Mark take me through the events of the day. He showed me where he had been raking and picking up some leaves and small branches around the yard and also spreading fresh top soil on his front garden with his bare hands.
I wanted to eliminate the garden first as it was logical that the ring would most likely have slipped off while he was spreading around the top soil.
After thoroughly checking the garden and not hitting the ring, I knew it had to be in with the leaves or somewhere on the front lawn.
We spread a pile of leaves across the lawn a little bit and I started scanning this area.
Right away I got a beautiful, heavy hit and knew by that special sound rings make that we had it.
I spread the leaves apart a little, and sure enough there was Mark’s gold wedding band staring back at me.
I picked it up and handed to him and watched as a smile of happiness and relief lit up his face.
Really glad I could help you out today Mark..!!
I hope you and your wife enjoy your anniversary..!!
Take care,
Mark Ellis