I received a call from a party that mentioned that he and his wife had taken their rings off to not loose them when they were going into a lake swimming. The rings were put into the pocket of a swim suit. Later after coming out of the water both, his and her rings were missing. These folk where in Minnesota staying at a vacation rental on a lake about 65 miles north of St. Paul. They went home back to Milwaukee totally heartbroken. They had no idea how to find the rings and contemplated buying a metal detector and driving back to find the rings. Following doing some research they came across the ring finders web site and found my name. They called and were quite surprised that there was people that look for lost rings on the internet. They were even more surprised to find someone that could go up and look for the rings and they did not have to go back to Minnesota to recover their rings.
There was another group on the property and we had to wait.until they left before searching. But eventually the property was vacated and I went in and searched for the rings. It took about 3 hours and many signals that you find in lakes. Bottle caps, fishing lures and weights, old beer cans and old bait cans. But I finally got a hit that was strong and clean. I knew it was a ring before scooping it up. Yes, it was his ring. I found one of the two missing rings. I continued to search really hitting the area that I found the one hoping that they fell out together. But no luck. So I finished up out in the water and swept the yard and again came up empty. While it was not the perfect outcome, I can always go back and try again and see if I can get lucky one more time. Congratulations on getting 1 of 2 back.
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