Just after 9:30 am on 9/20/26, I got a text message saying, “Gary on the pier gave me your number. I lost a knife on the beach by the 38th street public access. Wondering if you could help. I’m not worried about the knife as much as a child finding it. Let me know. My name is Tim.” I didn’t notice the text until 11 a.m. so I called the number attached to the text and got a few more details from Tim and told him I’d be there in 30-35 minutes.
When I arrived, I met Tim on the beach, and he walked me to the loss area. He had marked out about a 10X10 foot area that the knife should be in. He told me the knife had been sitting on a cooler and when he and his wife packed up to leave, the knife was gone. He also mentioned he had spent 2-3 hours last night looking for it with no success. I turned my Equinox on and started an east/west grid search at the far corner of his box. On my second pass I got a strong 19/20 on the VDI (visual display indicator) and dug a scoop of sand. I had the target out of the hole and dumped the scoop of sand out on the beach. I spread the sand out with my foot and saw his knife lying in the sand. Tim was very grateful to get his 15-year-old knife back in his possession.
Tim – Thank you for calling me to help find your lost knife.
Jim
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If I only knew to call Jim I could have saved 3 hours of my life and the families next to me looking at me like I lost my mind digging for this thing.
Jim is the type of guy that wants to do the right thing. As we walked back to my rental house he talked about the people he has been able to recover things for and how grateful he is to be able to help them out.
Many thanks for retrieving this for me Jim.
BTW. When I came back to my beach spot 3 kids had a metal detector in the area. Glad they didn’t find it.