Dave Boyer, Author at The Ring Finders | Page 4 of 10

My daughter-in-law, Abby, saw a FB post from a lady losing a phone and gave this lady my phone number. Sammy gave me a call and said her brother had lost his phone while standing on the deck/pier that juts out into the lake. Sammy could not meet me there so I went to take a look at the spot where he lost it. The spot where he dropped the phone from the deck has only about 6 inches of water and is right next to the shore. Water is muddy and the phone is not in sight. There is a rule of no metal detecting in the park so I went looking for a park ranger and he came back with me and I showed him where the phone was lost. He said I will give you 30 minutes to find it with a metal detector but don’t let anybody see you using it. It took me about 15 minutes and nobody came in sight of me. Found it right next to that fishing bobber and it was still working. Gave Sammy a call about finding the phone and delivered it to her house on my way home. Sammy said her brother was afraid to tell his mother that he lost the phone so he confided with Sammy to help him. We saved little brother’s butt!

Is that a tear of joy.   Liz posted on Craigslist about losing her ring at the park and gave a general idea of where it was lost between the parking lot and the picnic table. I searched all around the picnic table and finally went to search near the parking lot where I found it next to the wooden fence. Just engaged with no date for the wedding yet and she was devastated. A beautiful 14K white gold ring with a nice diamond on top. Made my day!

Back in July, 2023, Devin and Garrett were playing with a Frisbee when she noticed her ring was missing. Gregg and I went out there the first time and spent a couple of hours searching for the ring with no luck. Today, we met Garrett out there and he had marked a few areas with flags that he thought the ring could be in. In a few minutes I got an iffy signal and decided I’d better dig it to see what it was. I used a screwdriver and with the first attempt this diamond stone popped up and stared me in the face. I signaled Gregg and we called Garrett over who was using his own metal detector. I hid the ring in my hand and ran my hand over the coil on his metal detector and then opened my hand for the big surprise. A beautiful rose gold ring with a diamond on top. Garrett went to the house to tell everybody about the find. We gathered the family together for a few pictures and bathed in the smiles and laughter of finding the ring.

 Received a call from the staff at Oval Beach stating a lady lost her wedding ring in the sand and asked if I could come and help find the ring. I arrived around 8PM and a staff member showed me the general area where the ring was lost and he said the family had to leave and would be back shorty. I started to search the beach and Sush showed up shorty with her husband, Vaibhaw and son Vihaan. She showed me an area maybe 20ft x 20ft where she was playing in the sand with Vihaan when the ring slipped off her hand. I searched that area further from the water with no success and then moved closer to the water when I got a good hit. I knew right away this had to be her ring so I handed my pinpointer to her and told her to search this spot right here. She pointed it to the spot and the pinpointer started to sing and vibrate and Vaibhaw came over and sifted the sand with his fingers and there was the ring. Emotions flowed and I received hugs from both of them. They have been married for 5 years and spending their vacation in Michigan from their home in Ohio. It was a tossup, who was happier, me or them.

After getting home from another ring find I get a notice from my friend Gregg Larabel that there is another ring lost and they need help in finding it right now.   I called the number but it went right thru to voice mail so I just showed up at the volleyball court.   A group of people were having lunch nearby and I asked them if somebody had lost a ring in the volleyball court-their reply was yes but they did not know who it was.   I just grabbed my equipment and started to search for the ring.   Just got started and Allen and his wife show up, they had been sitting in a group outside their apartment and saw me start the search.   The ring that was lost was Allen’s wedding ring.   Allen showed me what he was doing when his ring flew off his hand and the direction he thinks it went.   I started my grid of that area and after finding 2 pennies the third target was his ring.   Allen gave me a big hug and we just saved another marriage. 

John called me last night and said he lost his platinum wedding band in about thigh deep water just south of the South Beach. He and his wife and kids are vacationing from California with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Larabel was busy so Tom Cleary agreed to meet me there this morning to find this ring. After about 2 hours of searching I was tired out and turned the detector over to John. Gave him a 2 minute instruction on how to handle the detector and he was off and running. After about an hour John calls me over and says he has a good reading on the detector that I had told him about. I helped him dig the target and there was his ring. We had been searching in too deep of water and his ring was only in water below the knees. John saved his own vacation memories with this find. John and Vanessa toasting the new found ring.