I said it can’t be…. Mrs. Said perhaps..

Last week I received an SMS regarding a lost ring in the Côte d’Azur area of southern France. How would I have known this would be my MOST complicated venture. I made arrangements to drive nearly 3 hrs each way to search for a not-so-valuable wedding band but it had sentimental value . Simple so far, right? When I go that far, I often take a 2nd detector just in case I have problems. When I finally reached the location, I had problems finding a parking spot but finally found one a few blocks away. However, after donning my wet suit, etc., I noticed that my main detector had a broken disk mount …ouch! Well, that leaves my secondary detector.  However, when removing my back up detector, I found the headphone bracket was broken…darned!  Not willing to quit, I took this detector with the intent to use only one earphones. When I entered the water, I heard strange noise and realized that I had not “sealed” the box properly and the detector was damaged beyond repair. I had to apologize and drive 3 hrs home. The client asked if I could return “tomorrow “…UGH (another 6 hrs round trip). I said OK and went home and mounted my large coil. I returned the next day and searched the specific area that the customer said the ring was POSITIVELY lost…NOTHING. Since I had driven so far, I decided to search other areas in the same beach.  There wasn’t much but I did find a questionable ring about 25+ft away. Oh well. I phoned the customer to say the search was unsuccessful. After returning home, my wife inspected the ring determined that “perhaps” this was the customer’s ring even though it was found quite a distance from the reported loss. My wife followed up with the customer via SMS and sent photos. The customer believed that the ring was his. We sent the ring from France to the customer in England last week and today the customer confirmed the ring was received AND was the one he lost. Apparently the ring has a long history and now has something more to add to it’s history.