Not all calls are for lost rings, this one was a from someone who wanted to find his main shut off valve to his house. With a little help by the witching method, we found the water pipe. From there it was not long to find the shut off valve using my metal detector.
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Jenny was on the beach in Margate, NJ, enjoying the day. She had taken off her sentimental gold chain and charm, which had belonged to her grandmother, while she went swimming in the ocean. She thought she had placed it in her bag for safekeeping, but it seemed she must have missed it. When she realized it was missing, she looked everywhere but could not find it.
Her friend’s mother suggested she call Ring Finders South Jersey . I arrived about 30 minutes later and, within 10 minutes, had retrieved the chain and charm with my metal detector. Jenny was overjoyed to have her sentimental jewelry back! It was a great ending to the day in Margate, NJ.
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September 1, 2024
“Chris I Love You Susan” was engraved in a wedding band that took a slip from Chris’s finger as his daughter looked on. Chris visualized were the loss took place and that there were 51 steps to the stairs leading off the beach. During the next few hours Chris made many unsuccessful dives to retrieve the ring from its watery resting place. A visual search also took place. Susan then took charge, acquired my number and called for help.
The next morning at 7AM the search began and lasted about 2 hours before the tide had come in and prevented further searching. I would return for the afternoon tide. Which I did. I paced off the 51 steps, took visual reference points into account and began a search. First I gridded over the sand that was under water in the morning. Nothing to dig, I moved into the water. Low tide, with between 1 and 2 foot waves along with some seaweed made detecting a bit tough. The second signal I had was over the small drop-off at the bottom of the beach’s slope. With everything moving as it was I had to take a third scoop before I caught the object in the scoop. I love to see the glitter of gold among the shells and sand. Without emptying the scoop I left the surf and counted 68 steps to the stairs. On the walk I pulled the ring out, verified the inscription, and dumped the shells.
Next feat was to climb the 98 steps to the top of the dune and my car. I cleaned the scoop, put the ring back into it, changed the boots I was wearing to sandals for safer driving and drove off toward Chris’s vacation home. I turned the last corner and there Chris was, walking back to the beach to see if I was there. I told him the surf was now too rough and it would be worthless to climb down to the beach and back up. But I would appreciate him looking in my scoop. A bit perplexed, he did and could not believe that it was HIS ring from Susan.
At the house, a cappuccino, many friendly licks from his dog, and lots of wonderful stories were related. I just love how I get to know people by just going a bit out of my way to help them. It is also great knowing that there is at least one more reason for having wonderful memories of a vacation on Cape Cod.
August 31, 2024
On my way home from some hobby detecting; not looking for anything specific, just enjoying the afternoon sun and sea swells, and waiting for another call for help in locating a lost object. I was less than a mile from home when my wait was over. A neighbor, Barbara, was calling to request that I respond to a woman in distress over a missing marriage ring set of 36 years this month. Sure, I am on my way was my answer as I pass the road to my home. Next I called home to tell my wife I would be a bit longer, put dinner on hold, I had to go and find 2 rings.
Within twenty minutes I was ready to start the search. While being escorted to the area on the beach where the rings were lost I was told that another detectorist had found the engagement ring but had no success in locating the wedding band. Maura had removed her wedding band and engagement ring at the beach to apply sunscreen. She put the two rings in the cup holder of her chair, but forgot to put them on afterwards. A few hours later she folded up her chair and left the beach. Back at the house she realized she didn’t have her rings and knew instantly what happened. Returning to the beach and sifting through sand with hands. There were also many interested people all wanting to help. Unfortunately the only help to find the wedding band came from the call to my phone. One woman helping – Barbara told Maura about a world wide group TheRingFinders, that she had a connection, and then called Richard 1 of some 600 TheRingFinders.
It took me about a dozen swings of my coil before I located the wedding band. My advantage over the other detectorist was in the quality of the detector being used and some 40 years experience with detectors. I passed a few detecting tips on to the new detectorist, Thank Yous were passed among all the helpers and I left for the waiting dinner.
My travels today took me to Buckhorn lake area. Received a text from Gerrard about Katie loosing her gold ring, with opal, last weekend at the family cottage during a bachelorette weekend party. She was swimming in only about three feet of water when all of the sudden, she felt her ring slip off her finger. Once I arrived at the cottage, a lady that was there last weekend was able to direct me in the water to where she believed Katie lost her ring. I turned on my underwater metal detector, did a couple swing and right away I heard a great signal. Looked in my scoop and there was her ring. No Scuba diving, no weeds and hardly any silt to contend with. The best part, Gerrard is headed back home to Hamilton this evening and will be returning the ring to Katie. She has no idea that he contacted me or the fac that her ring has been found. Another great recovery. I wish they could all be this easy. Life is good!
This ring find began when I got a call from Tiare who lives on Oahu and was staying at the Aulani Resort. She said the evening before her husband Jesse while playing with his children in the shallow waters of the lagoon he noticed when he got back to the room his yellow gold wedding band was gone. He went back to the beach and looked and it was hopelessly gone. Even snorkeling the area is really impossible. The sand is so soft the heavy gold ring melts into it and disappears. I told Tiare I was getting ready to go to church and when it was complete I’d grab my gear and come down to the lagoon to hunt. When I arrived I texted Tiare & Jesse and said I would be in the water hunting the area in the photo they sent. I immediately got a high tone that was a dime then a low tone that was a child’s play ring. Then the next ten minutes was silent. I was on the last leg of the between the buoys hunt when I got a nice 47-50 on the Manticore and finally after three scoops there was a yellow gold ring in the scoop. Tiare was finally walking down to the beach and she waved at me. When she got there I asked to see Jesse’s ring again and it was a match. I showed her the ring and she said, “No you didn’t” Yep! I found it in the time it took her to get ready & come dow to the beach. She took the ring and ran back to give Jesse the good news and they both came down the beach to thank me for the recovery. A few hugs & handshakes and another vacation saved! Aloha to Tiare & Jesse!
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Emilia contacted me after losing her diamond engagement ring in the sand at the beach. She had taken it off, and put it in her glasses case to secure it while she rented a stand up paddle board to enjoy the day on the water. Sometime either before she went paddling, or when she got back the ring had come out of the case, getting lost in the sand. I let her know I could come immediately to search for her, so I was on my way right after.
When I got to the beach she was still at the rental tent, and she told me the circumstances of the loss. She then outlined the area she believed the loss could have occurred, so I got ready for the search. We moved anything metal out of the search area so as not to interfere with the detector, and I began. I think I swung no more than 4 times when I got a real nice low tone in the head phones, I dug, and a very beautiful ring was in the scoop. I held it up, and a very happy Emilia came over to make the identification. So happy to make people happy!
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Andrew, the ring, and me
I found the ring!
Back where it all started.
About a week ago, I received a text from a young man, Andrew, who’s wife had lost her wedding ring in their garden. She had taken it off ,while working in the garden, and placed in on the console in her car. This was a community garden and they had to drive to this spot to do their gardening. While they were in the garden, their little boy, about age 4, had found the ring (unbeknownst to them), and had been carrying it around with him while he was waiting for his parents to be done gardening for the day. They didn’t know that the ring was being moved around their space where there were other cars parked and other people out working in their gardens. When they were leaving to go home, they found out that their son had been carrying it around. They immediately started looking around and asking the boy where he had been walking with it. They made some calls to borrow a metal detector and had a borrowed one, with not much luck. They then texted me, and asked if I could help them out. I set up a time to meet them at their garden spot. Andrew had been looking for a few days with no results using a detector he didn’t really know how it worked. He had found some metal, but, no sign of the wedding ring. When I got there on the day I could start looking, he met me with a lot of frustration on his face. I started getting my detector out of my car and got it ready to search. I was parked away from the area that they said they had been looking, so I didn’t want to park on top of anywhere the ring could be. He was ready to start pulling up all of his tomato cages, and other parts of his garden, just so I could get in and start swinging my detector. I walked up to the area, near their garden spot, near their makeshift gate. I started swinging around that area, and it wasn’t long before I got a number on my Garrett AT Pro, that was registering in the gold ring range. I bent down and started fingering through the tall grass there, and there was the wedding ring that little bunch of grass. He was so shocked that I found it so fast. It took me about 5 minutes from when I got my detector ready to the time that I heard that signal. Needless to say, he took pictures of me and him and the ring, and sent the pictures to his wife, who was at her workplace. I was also surprised it didn’t take very long, and I’m so glad it turned out to be so easy. I really enjoyed seeing the smiles, and another successful recovery. This is a great hobby. He even posted the pictures on his Facebook page, and gave me high praise on how good a job I did. The more publicity, the better!
On Saturday night, August 31st at about 11:15 pm I received the following text, “Hi! I lost my wedding band today at ocean isle. Can you help tomorrow?” I responded with the normal questions, what time it was lost, where – soft sand or in the ocean, and if in the ocean how deep she was? She responded that it was in the dry sand. At that point I called her to make sure I had all the details and set up a time for the next morning for a search. This is when she told me that both her wedding band and engagement ring were stuck in a pouch on the beach chair. When she got back to the rental is when she realized the wedding ring was missing.
This morning, Sunday, I arrived at the address she gave me and met her in the driveway. She led me out to the area they had been sitting and I started a north/south grid search, extending the search area out on all four sides. She had told me when I started the search it was a white gold ring, so I knew I was looking for a signal between 6-8 on the machine. After completing the search area with no luck, I decided to start an east/west grid search. Now I’d be covering the area between where she was sitting and going across the beach towards the beach access point. On my second pass of the new grid, I got a solid 7 on the machine. Bingo. I dug out a scoop of sand and laid it on the beach, smoothing it out with my foot. I immediately saw her ring, reached down and picked it up. I held it up for her to see and she couldn’t believe it. She was so grateful and trying to hold back the tears of relief. This search ended with one happy young lady, a found ring and a hug.
Jessica – Thank you for allowing me to help find your lost treasure. Enjoy your last day of vacation and have a safe trip home.
Jim
On The Fence……
…Was the feeling that came over Walt as the old privacy fence was removed and a new vinyl one was soon to be installed. He was in agreement with the neighbor about it but still was curious where the property line was. After chatting I agreed to locate the property irons and wanted the neighbor’s approval as well. With that granted I proceeded to examine the old survey drawing for the lot dimensions. On site I turned on my Tesoro Sidewinder metal detector and began scanning. Near the front sidewalk I got a loud signal. Probing with a surveyors pin I felt it scratch the side of a metal object. Digging in and flipping the grass plug revealed the property iron! At the rear of the lot the old property iron was exposed but bent sideways from tree growth near it making it inaccurate to use. Moving to the opposite corner the drawing indicated the property iron was set years ago. Finding that one enabled me to pull a tape measure the correct lot width towards the bent property pin to see where the line really was where the fence was going. By this time the neighbor came out to see how things were going. We all agreed that the new fence was not going to encroach onto Walt’s property. To celebrate, as Walt brought out some beers I said, now that’s a perfect way to mend the fence with the neighbor!……Cheers!
Jonathan
