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Lost Wedding Ring Found at West beach Santa Barbara by Dave The RingFinder

  • from Santa Barbara (California, United States)
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If you have lost your wedding ring, a bracelet, golden grill or a necklace don’t waste the time or the money buying or renting a metal detector. Instead hire an expert metal detecting professional like Dave The RingFinder! Dave is the “metal detective” and knows how to stack the odds in your favor to get your precious jewelry back. Call or text Dave at 805-290-5009 so he can create a plan to get your ring back!

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon until it wasn’t. I got a call from Christian who was leaving Santa Barbara to go back home to Golden Colorado. On the last day of his families vacation he had been digging in the sand on north side of the pier at West Beach in Santa Barbara when he discovered his Platinum wedding band was gone. They tried frantically to search in the sand but platinum rings are heavy and every push of the sand just served to bury it further out of reach. He realized that they needed to get to the airport so they didn’t miss their flight so he did the only thing he could do, he called Dave The RingFinder.

Christian dropped me a pin in the general area and I told him I would get up there that afternoon and get his ring back. I got to the area and began to scan for where you could see where folks had been gathering. Fortunately in their quest to find the ring they had left a perfect scene of the crime and I could tell exactly where they had been searching. I started on the outside of the area and sure enough I got a solid tone on my Minelab Manticore and two scoops later I had Christian’s ring back. He was just a few minutes from take-off when I texted him the good news. Another ring saved by Dave The RingFinder!

Wait — Time Is Critical After a Ring Loss in Ventura or Santa Barbara County

Whether you lost a ring, necklace, bracelet, or other jewelry on a Ventura or Santa Barbara County beach, in shallow surf, in a backyard, at a park, or in an open field — the clock starts the moment it’s gone. Shifting tides, moving sand, and other detectorists can all work against recovery the longer you wait. Skip the metal detector rental and trust the expert — Dave The RingFinder.

Dave The RingFinder serves the entire region including:

Ventura County: Ventura · Oxnard · Port Hueneme · Camarillo · Thousand Oaks · Moorpark · Simi Valley · Fillmore · Santa Paula · Ojai

Santa Barbara County: Santa Barbara · Carpinteria · Goleta · Montecito · Summerland · Lompoc · Santa Maria · Solvang · Buellton

Notable beaches and recovery locations served: Mondo’s Beach · Surfer’s Point · San Buenaventura State Beach · Rincon Beach · Carpinteria State Beach · East Beach Santa Barbara · West Beach Santa Barbara · McGrath State Beach Oxnard · Silver Strand Beach · Mandalay Beach-All areas of Malibu

About Dave The RingFinder — Ventura County’s Metal Detecting Specialist

Dave The RingFinder has been recovering lost jewelry with a metal detector since 2011 and has operated full-time as a professional ring and jewelry recovery specialist since 2017. Also known as The Metal Detective, Dave brings professional-grade equipment, deep local knowledge of Ventura and Santa Barbara County beaches and tides, and a genuine passion for reuniting people with their most treasured possessions. Every recovery is personal.

Before you spend an afternoon chasing down a metal detector rental in Ventura or Santa Barbara County, make one call instead. Dave has the equipment, the experience, and the track record — and he works on your behalf from the moment you contact him.

📞 Call or text Dave 24/7: 805-290-5009 🌐 davetheringfinder.com

Lost something? Don’t rent — trust the expert. Dave The RingFinder is here to bring your jewelry home

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Lost Rings found at the Bluffs beach at UC Santa Barbara by Dave The RingFinder

  • from Santa Barbara (California, United States)
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If you have lost your wedding ring, a bracelet, golden grill or a necklace don’t waste the time or the money buying or renting a metal detector. Instead hire an expert metal detecting professional like Dave The RingFinder! Dave is the “metal detective” and knows how to stack the odds in your favor to get your precious jewelry back. Call or text Dave at 805-290-5009 so he can create a plan to get your ring back!

I got a late night call from Lena, a student at UCSB. She had been out for a walk on the beach below the bluffs in the evening when she noticed her two rings were missing off her fingers. She was sure she had them the hour prior so the hunt was on but it was dark, the tide was coming up and she needed someone who was good at using a metal detector. So she did the only thing she could, she called Dave The RingFinder.

Since it was late I told her I would get out there first thing in the morning and recover the rings. She had a general idea of the location so she sent me a pin and as the sun was coming up in Santa Barbara, I was on the campus of UCSB walking down the stairs to the beach. The beach here is not very wide and much of what was dry sand the evening before was now wet sand. I began to grid the area. After covering the area she thought they might be in I expanded my search. I knew that they would likely be near one another so I was listening for two beeps instead of one. On my second pass I got the sounds I had been waiting for. 3 scoops, two rings! Another recovery for Dave The RingFinder!

Wait — Time Is Critical After a Ring Loss in Ventura or Santa Barbara County

Whether you lost a ring, necklace, bracelet, or other jewelry on a Ventura or Santa Barbara County beach, in shallow surf, in a backyard, at a park, or in an open field — the clock starts the moment it’s gone. Shifting tides, moving sand, and other detectorists can all work against recovery the longer you wait. Skip the metal detector rental and trust the expert — Dave The RingFinder.

Dave The RingFinder serves the entire region including:

Ventura County: Ventura · Oxnard · Port Hueneme · Camarillo · Thousand Oaks · Moorpark · Simi Valley · Fillmore · Santa Paula · Ojai

Santa Barbara County: Santa Barbara · Carpinteria · Goleta · Montecito · Summerland · Lompoc · Santa Maria · Solvang · Buellton

Notable beaches and recovery locations served: Mondo’s Beach · Surfer’s Point · San Buenaventura State Beach · Rincon Beach · Carpinteria State Beach · East Beach Santa Barbara · West Beach Santa Barbara · McGrath State Beach Oxnard · Silver Strand Beach · Mandalay Beach-All areas of Malibu

About Dave The RingFinder — Ventura County’s Metal Detecting Specialist

Dave The RingFinder has been recovering lost jewelry with a metal detector since 2011 and has operated full-time as a professional ring and jewelry recovery specialist since 2017. Also known as The Metal Detective, Dave brings professional-grade equipment, deep local knowledge of Ventura and Santa Barbara County beaches and tides, and a genuine passion for reuniting people with their most treasured possessions. Every recovery is personal.

Before you spend an afternoon chasing down a metal detector rental in Ventura or Santa Barbara County, make one call instead. Dave has the equipment, the experience, and the track record — and he works on your behalf from the moment you contact him.

📞 Call or text Dave 24/7: 805-290-5009 🌐 davetheringfinder.com

Lost something? Don’t rent — trust the expert. Dave The RingFinder is here to bring your jewelry home

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Lost Tungsten, Gold & Diamond Wedding band at Kailua Beach…FOUND!!!

  • from O‘ahu (Hawaii, United States)
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This ring find began when I got a text from Payton who was on vacation from Dallas, Texas and enjoying his day at Kailua Beach.  The text was,  “I lost my ring at Kailua Beach just now and found your number online.  If you are able to find it I would be so grateful.”  Payton was standing in knee deep water when his Tungsten, Gold & Diamond ring fell off his finger and disappeared in the soft sand.  They looked for 30 minutes and it didn’t turn up.  With parking at Kailua Beach unobtainable at this time we agreed I’d do a hunt at first light the next morning which was also a low tide.  Payton sent me a video of the location so I had excellent reference points.  When I arrived it was fairly calm and I decided to do a collapsing box search.  I went out, across and then started back in when I got a screaming target.  It didn’t really sound like a ring because of the dual metals and the depth.  It took me at least 8 scoops to get the target in the basket and for sure it was Payton’s ring.  It sure buried itself during the over night high tide.  When I got back to my car I texted Payton a pic of his ring.  We agreed to meet at Rainbow Drive-In food place for the return.  Vacation saved and on to Japan!  Aloha to Payton!

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Rose gold wedding ring LOST on Washougal, WA. Farm – FOUND!

  • from Vancouver (Washington, United States)
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We got a text from Alan on a Saturday afternoon asking if we could come out to his 5-acre farm in Washougal, WA, to help locate his lost wedding ring. Alan had been planting some trees on his property when he lost his rose gold wedding band.

The beautiful rose gold band isn’t perfectly round. It’s almost square-shaped with rounded corners, and because of that, it had a tendency to slip off his finger whenever he pulled his thick leather work gloves off.

Alan told me that he had actually thought he lost his slightly oversized ring once before while working outside, only to find it wedged perfectly upright inside the ring finger of his left-hand glove. He made a mental note from then on to leave his wedding ring inside while he was working, but on this particular day, he forgot to take it off.

My wife and I showed up at his beautiful farm the next day with two metal detectors. My wife was running her Nokta Legend, and I was running my Minelab Manticore.

Alan showed us three areas of the property where he believed the ring could have been lost. He said he had removed his gloves multiple times that day, and he believed that one of those times the ring must have slipped off his finger as he pulled the glove off.

My wife and I started gridding the two areas near the freshly planted trees. Apart from finding some old buried beer cans and a ton of iron signals, however, the ring was nowhere to be found.

We had one more area to search—the section of gravel driveway where Alan parks his tractor every night.

We searched all around the tractor, but still had no luck.

Just as we were getting ready to head back out into the field to re-grid the area, I noticed Alan’s leather work gloves sitting on the floorboard of the tractor.

I picked up the gloves and gave them a good shake, just in case, but nothing came out. I tossed the gloves on the ground in front of me and decided to run my Manticore over them, just to make absolutely sure nothing was stuck inside.

When I passed over the right glove, the detector stayed completely silent.

But as soon as I passed over the left glove, I got a clean, crisp, LOUD signal.

I reached down, picked up the glove, and started massaging each finger, feeling around for whatever metal was setting off the detector.

Sure enough, buried deep inside the fingertip of the pointer finger of the left glove was a hard, round object.

I had to really work at getting the object out because it was jammed tightly inside the finger of the glove. But after a few seconds of working it loose, Alan’s beautiful rose gold wedding ring finally slid out into my hand.

The ring had been hiding in the glove the entire time.

Another successful recovery alongside my wonderful wife—and another very happy customer!

Sometimes the best signals aren’t buried in the ground at all. ❤️💍

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Student Initiation lost signet ring recovered.

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I was contacted over the weekend by a student who had just started university.

From what I understand there was some sort of initiation process going on in the beautiful park nearby, which overlooks Oxford, with an amazing view of many of the spires of the university.

This initiation took the form of rolling down a mild slope of the park, with possibly some sort of inebriation involved? also being dark, what could go wrong?

So we arranged to meet in the park for a search. Luckily the grass hadn’t been cut, but in a few more days, this would have been on the cards.

The area to be searched was probably about 500 square meters, so I set about searching. There were many very nice signals going on which were all sub surface, so had to be ignored! Eventually, quite near my last corner marker, a beautiful clear tone, then there it was, a very nice engraved signet ring recovery in some getting long grass.

Very happy student, and detectorist!

 

 

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Pocket Knife Lost in the Soft Sand, Found and Returned Sunset Beach NC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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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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White Gold Engagement Ring Lost in the Sand, Found and Returned North Myrtle Beach SC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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On September 2, 2026 and just after 9:30 p.m., I received the following text in part, “Hi Jim. This is Angie. I saw everyone recommended you on ring finders. I never knew it was a thing!! Super cool how you do this. My best friend, Nikki and I were at the beach Monday. We were visiting friends outside the Sea Cabins near 60th. She lost her silver, small round diamond engagement ring under the pier. We went back an hour later and checked the parking lot and beach, nothing. She’s been upset ever since and I figured I would give this a try.” We went back and forth, so I could make sure where I was looking. Angie also stated that Nikki had put her rings in her beach chair and got to the campground and opened her chair. Her wedding band was in it but not her engagement ring. Angie also included a picture of where they were sitting under the pier, which helped. I had another engagement ring search just up the road from this that I had to hit before low tide the next morning, so I told her I’d check it out the next morning after I searched for the other ring.

I got to the pier at 6:30 the next morning and checked under and around the underside of the pier, taking the search both up and down a few sections, with no luck. I wasn’t satisfied that I couldn’t find it because it’s not in an area that would get heavily hit with detectors. So I planned on coming back and checking after I talked to Angie to find out which way they went when they left the beach. I felt that ring should be there somewhere.

I wasn’t able to get back out there until Saturday afternoon about 3 p.m. and when I did there was a family set up right where I needed to search. I learned from Angie that when they left the beach they went to the left (as facing the ocean) so I did a wide grid search to the beach access, still not finding the ring. Finally, the family taking up the space was packing up and left. So I went back under the pier and extended the search out to the right. Good decision. About 20 feet out, I hit a solid 6 on the VDI (visual display indicator) which is a great number for a white gold engagement ring. Angie told me Nikki’s ring was silver, but a white gold ring looks silver but rings up with totally different numbers on the VDI. Silver would ring up in the mid 20s, a single white gold ring signals up in the 4-6 range. One scoop of sand and I had Nikki’s ring in the scoop.

I made my way back to my car and looked at the picture Angie had sent and was confident I had Nikki’s ring. I took a picture and sent it to Angie with a text saying, “Your Friends?!?” She immediately responded saying, “OMG!! You found it.” I called Angie to get an address to mail it back. Tuesday I got it in the mail to Angie who is holding it until Nikki returns home from vacation. On Saturday, September 19th, I got a picture of Nikki with a big smile and her ring back on her finger.

Angie – Thank you so much for contacting me to help your friend, Nikki get her ring back.

Nikki – I’m so happy that you got your treasure back!

Jim

 

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Lost ring recovered from dog walk

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I had a call the other day from a lady who had lost her grandmothers wedding ring. Her grandmother was married in 1950, so this was a very special ring.

We met on her dog walk, which was a wooded track with lots of undergrowth each side. the walk was probably quarter of a mile, so quite a search. The track was surprisingly not too trashy, but as with most ring searches, they are normally on the surface, so a detuned detector was necessary.

After nearly two hours of searching, we were nearing the end of the track, and we were both beginning to feel the hope of finding the ring was fading. But then, a beautiful clear tone was delivered! A quick brush aside with my foot of some leaf litter, and there it was, a very nice gold ring smiling at me.

Another very happy and emotional owner of a very special lost ring now recovered.

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Lost 18K Gold and Diamonds Earring at Naia Lagoon Ko Olina Resort…FOUND!!!

  • from O‘ahu (Hawaii, United States)
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This Earring hunt began on 26 June when I got a text from Nicole who was on vacation from Laguna Hills, California stating, “I lost a pair of gold earrings on the west side of the island in the Ko Olina lagoon”.  I responded I was flying home from San Diego and could hunt early the next morning.  Kai who covers for me while I’m away also got the word and started a search immediately.  The search area was huge and Kai was unsuccessful.  I was also unsuccessful the next morning during the low tide.  Then on 8 September during another hunt in Naia Lagoon I got a whisper of a hit and after a few scoops there was Nicole’s Earring in the scoop.  As you can see in the pic its back home with her in California.  I will do my best to sniff out the other one.  Aloha to Nicole!

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Lost Tungsten Ring Found in Pinckney Michigan

  • from Detroit (Michigan, United States)
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The Blue Swing….

Is Austin’s daughter’s favorite swing, and when she’s in it and dad is pushing her the sky’s the limit. About 2 weeks ago as a major storm pushed thru south-east Michigan, as they were playing on the swing… they suddenly had to take cover. After the storm had passed Austin noticed his ring missing. With the high winds and pounding rain he had no idea where it went. Searching for it was like swinging into the wind. Things were in full swing as I started a grid search near the swing and quite a few feet away, I got a great signal. Digging down thru the sand in the play area revealed Austin’s ring! He was not home yet so I texted him a pic of the ring and he couldn’t believe it. His wife came out to greet me and take some pics. Now that’s what I call getting back into the swing of things!

Jonathan

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