Fairfield CT , News report follow up Wedding band recovered from the ocean in LIS
Follow up: Lou’s ring turned into a news broadcast on Channel 12 CT news
‘Good people out there.’ Ring finder reunites Fairfield man with wedding band lost in LI Sound
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Fairfield CT Jennings Beach Water recovery July 15, 2025
Lou and his family were at Jennings beach in Fairfield and enjoying a day in the water when suddenly while playing tag in three feet of water he noticed his wedding ring had fallen off. In a frantic effort to find it he put on his sons swim goggle and search the murky waters. He had resolved himself to the fact that the ocean had concealed it and he might have to purchase a new ring. His wife decided to put a post in social media if anyone found a ring at Jennings to let them know. One name popped into the post and said get Wayne Aguiar. A person that follows me knew I had been successful kin previous returns and thought i might be able to help. Lou found my contact information online and gave me a call late in the day. I promised I would go that night and take advantage of the tides. When I arrived a bad thunderstorm was passing through the area and the water was unsafe. I called off the search for safety’s sake and came the next morning before the beach officially opened. Lou met me there and pointed out the general area that he last remembered the ring while playing tag with his kids. It took a couple of hours and dumping buckets of trash before a I had a good signal. I dug out the signal which was around 6 inches and dumped out the scoop onto the beach. The ring miraculously rolled out of the scoop and Lou jumped down and placed it on his finger exclaiming to everyone around I had found his ring. we celebrated with selfies and again I gave Lou a St Anthony medal as a keep sake for his family. The next day Lou was very happy and in shock and disbelief I was able to find it. He contacted the Channel 12 news station and submitted pictures and selfies that we had taken after the recovery. The news station liked the pictures and the story and decided to have a televised interview. I was on another ring recovery in RI so I zoomed into the interview and shared our stories.
Old Lyme , CT Platinum Diamond Ring July 2025
Old Lyme CT, July 27. What started as a Christmas in July celebration at the beach with over 150 guest became a frantic search for a lost platinum diamond ring. Kristina the coordinator of the event was playing with the children handing out gifts and dancing with them under a huge tent. Line dancing around all the tables and tlo the gift distribution area. After stopping at her table she noted that two of her three rings were almost falling off her finger and the large diamond ring was missing. In a frantic search the crowd started searching the area kicking sand , kids digging into the sand and even a child’s detector was employed. Quick action by Alison reached out to me from social media and gave me the situation. In about 30 minutes I was onsite and assessing the situation. The area was trampled and it became clear there was no clear idea of where it could have been lost. I started but using a standard coil covering and gridding the area closest to where she noticed it had been missing. The tables and chairs were moved when possible to allow better access and everyone was supportive. I started by giving Kristina who said she was catholic and seeking help a St Anthony medal to pray for her lost items and many of the guests started doing the same. At one pint everyone left the area to go to sleep and I remained but changed my strategy and used a smaller sniper coil to better get between the tables. After about a half hour a weak but repeatedly signal in the range of platinum was identified. The soft sand was pinpointed and at a depth of 6-7 inches a solid ping was detected, sifting the sand with my fingers I felt the band of the ring and a glitter of platinum ion the sand and brought it to the surface. Some passing relatives contacted her and she jumped into a golf cart and came straight to the tent where her ring awaited her. We had several precious and emotional minutes where she came to terms it had been found and that her and the other peoples prayers to St Anthony were heard. A miracle had just been witnessed.
Lost and found wedding and engagement diamond rings in Rice Lake Ontario
Today’s travel took me to Beautiful Rice Lake Ontario for a wedding band and diamond engagement rings. Received a text from Steve this morning about Robyn loosing her rings last night while having a swim at their cottage in about 4’ 1/2 of water. After all the usual questions, I gathered all my gear and headed down their way. Once there, Steve was very detailed about when and where Robyn felt her rings come off. However, with years of metal targets in the area, under water, it made it somewhat challenging. After forty five minutes or so, I finally was able to see her gorgeous rings in my scoop, which I promptly handed to Steve to give to Robyn. She was extremely happy which made another great happy ending. Life is good!
Lost Silver Cross w/ Diamonds Found in Ann Arbor Michigan
A Gift from a Friend……
…..was something Kwame was not expecting. For being a person who wore no jewelry he was totally taken by surprise when presented with a silver cross w/ diamonds. Lots of his friends and family thought it complemented him and completed his style. But one day he was in a volleyball tournament and right after a huddle and play began the next thing he knew was the cross was missing! Nearing dark, he was able to find the chain that held the cross, but the cross itself went unrecovered. I started a grid search with my MXT metal detector and came across a few junk items. Quite a distance away from where he found the chain I got a very nice signal with the metal detector underneath some heavy looking footprints in the sand. Moving a few inches of sand revealed Kwame’s silver cross! His jaw dropped in amazement as he saw it in my hand! His friend didn’t know it, but now it’s back on where it belongs and can continue to be displayed with pride!
Jonathan
Lost Gold Ring Found in Utica Michigan
Down the Rabbit Hole…..
…… began with Joe’s new yard project. The gravel he ordered after he tore up some grass didn’t show up and throughout the day tools went missing and machinery malfunctioned. To escalate matters his wedding ring fell off his finger and he didn’t know where in the yard it was. I did a grid search with my MXT metal detector where he said he was working but nothing came up. Going out further from the house I got a good signal in the wet grass and as I moved around it my foot slipped into a slight dip in the ground almost twisting my ankle. Reaching into the dip in the ground my pin pointer metal detector went off. Parting the grass back revealed Joe’s ring! His back was turned to me but as I yelled to him, he came running over and said that he had filled the rabbit hole in a while ago after the bunny’s left and said it must have settled leaving a small divot. Super Happy to be Out of the Rabbit Hole, Joe took a nice long look at his ring realizing that even tho this journey down the rabbit hole was over, he now had a deeper understanding of what’s important and that the rabbit hole is only as deep as you make it!
Jonathan
Stunning 18k diamond and sapphire ring recovered from the lake
Gorgeous 18k ring scooped from the lake
It still has the sand on it!
Late in the afternoon I received a call from Tammy. She had recently driven from Fort St. John in northern British Columbia Canada to our beautiful Okanagan to shop for items she could not find at home. She decided to stop along the highway to spend a bit of time by the lake and ventured into the water. While in the water, she unfortunately lost her footing and fell into the lake. When she left the water and returned to her truck she suddenly realized her ring was gone. Tammy was very upset and sought help from several strangers who aided her in looking for her lost ring. They even rented a metal detector but sadly they were not able to locate the ring. A friend told her about The Ring Finders and she called me and asked me to help find her lost ring. I told Tammy that I would meet her within the hour, packed my gear and headed to her location. They showed me where she had entered the water and approximately where she had fallen. At first I thought that the recovery would be very simple as it was not a busy public beach and the ring would be easy to locate. Unfortunately, the water was full of trash that made the search quite difficult. I checked the area where she first fell and was not successful so I started my grid towards the shore where she originally exited the lake. A few minutes had passed and I could sense that Tammy was fearing the worst and may never again see her most prized ring. I got a really nice signal closer to shore and there in the scoop was a gorgeous 18k white gold ring with diamonds and sapphires. Tears of joy came across Tammy when she put the ring back on her finger. She could not believe that I was able to locate her ring in the lake!
I have to say, and in fact I told her so, that I thought it was one of the most beautiful rings I had ever seen.
I can’t believe you found it! I am so happy.
Sentimental Promise Ring Lost at Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama… FOUND!
Christina McCree – Ring Finder/Metal Detectorist for the northern Alabama and southern/middle Tennessee area. Call or text ASAP, anytime 24/7 at 610-504-6135.
I received a text message just before midnight on Wednesday (July 16th, 2025) from Allie stating she had lost a few rings on Monday evening and asked if I could help her find them. Allie was attending one of the Concerts in the Park events at Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama. She vaguely remembered taking off her engagement ring and wedding band (soldered together) and her promise ring, then she placed them in the cup holder of her folding chair so that she could apply lotion. Allie forgot to put her rings back on and at the end of the event, she folded up her chair and put it back in the bag with the rings still in the cup holder. She thought they had fallen out into the grass.
The promise ring was a thin gold band that used to be Allie’s mother-in-law’s (Brandi) engagement ring given by her father-in-law. Unfortunately, he has since passed. The diamond and prongs had been removed, and the diamond was incorporated into a different ring Brandi now wears. The modified thin 14k gold band was given to Allie as a promise ring by her now husband.
When I received Allie’s message I had already gone to bed, because I had to get up early for work the next morning, but I replied to Allie and told her I’d be more than happy to help. I said I needed to pick up my detector and gear from my house, so I wouldn’t be able to get out to the park until after work on Thursday evening. Allie said she had a prior commitment on Thursday evening, so we scheduled a search for Friday late afternoon when I got off from work.
Allie went back out to the park with a friend earlier in the day on Thursday to search for her rings. Her friend took a metal detector, but she had a of signals and interference, so she ended up doing a visual grid search. She was able to find Allie’s soldered engagement and wedding rings!! She was so excited that she ran over to Allie and forgot to mark the exact spot, but that was no problem, because they had a picture of where Allie was sitting with the hotels/apartments in the background. We were now 1 for 2 (or 2 for 3 depending how you look at it, lol).
I met Allie and Brandi on Friday afternoon at Big Spring Park. There was a lot of pop of rain showers and thunderstorms, but thankfully nothing was happening at the park. As we walked over to where Allie was sitting on Monday, Brandi explained the sentimental meaning behind the ring. I could tell how much it meant to her.
Allie showed me the area she was sitting at and Brandi showed me the photo of Allie to line myself up with. I had my Minelab Equinox 900 with the 15-inch coil. I began my grid search and started receiving various signals. I carefully checked each one with my Garret Pro Pointer. All the targets were below the surface, so I didn’t bother going any further. I came upon a nice sounding 15-16 signal. I bent down to check and there was Allie’s gold ring!! It was laying vertically, completely hidden in the grass. I looked up at Allie, smiled, and said, “we got it!” I looked over at Brandi and gave her a smile and thumbs up. They were both very happy and relieved that it was found. All praise and glory to God!
We chatted for a few minutes and started walking back to our vehicles. They thanked me again and we said out good-byes.
This recovery was extra special to me because this was my 50th overall successful search! I’ve now found and returned a total of 58 items (some searches had multiple rings/items). What a blessing it is getting to help others!
Earlier in the year, I had the pleasure of sharing my metal detecting story with one of the writers of the Redstone Rocket, Ms. Marian Accardi. The Redstone Rocket is the Redstone Arsenal’s newspaper. I’ve been waiting for a special occasion to share it, and to celebrate my 50th successful search, here it is (link and story posted below). Happy reading! And until the next recovery… please take care and God Bless!
Metal detecting expert finds lost keepsakes for others | News | theredstonerocket.com
As Christina McCree turns the pages of a book that documents her successful metal detecting searches over the years, she can’t help but smile.
Her “Book of Smiles” holds a closeup photograph of each of the found items – from rings to keys and cell phones – along with photographs of the owners of the items and the date and location of the discoveries.
“The second best (reward) is finding the item, and the best thing is actually going and returning it to them, seeing that reaction. That’s priceless because a lot of these things are family heirlooms or wedding bands, college, high school rings.”
Most of the people who seek McCree’s help have already tried searching with a metal detector they bought or rented.
“I’m usually their last-ditch effort and a lot of them think it can’t be found, it’s gone forever. So, when I do find it, they’re just so shocked and happy. I’ve seen so many happy tears and hugs. That’s the most fulfilling thing.”
Her tally: “48 successful searches and between them all, 56 items,” said McCree, who’s an auditor with the Army Audit Agency. Most of those searches documented in her book have been through her listing on The Ring Finders’ website since August 2018. Founded by Chris Turner from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Ring Finders provides a directory of independent metal detecting specialists.
McCree’s favorite items to search for are rings and other types of jewelry and coins.
When McCree was a teenager, the movie “The Goonies” piqued her interest in treasure hunting and she got a metal detector. She enlisted in the Army in her home state of Pennsylvania and served active duty from 2005 to 2010, stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. She deployed twice to Iraq from there. McCree met her husband, Lindell McCree Jr., at Fort Leonard Wood and when they left the Army 15 years ago, they moved to Huntsville, where her father-in-law had retired.
She was hired at the Army Audit Agency in 2014 after earning an accounting degree from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
McCree’s husband gave her a metal detector for Christmas in 2012, and she got back into metal detecting with hobby hunts on the weekends. Then she found out about The Ring Finders on YouTube.
“It’s a way to help people with my hobby, that’s the driving factor,” she said.
One memorable find came when she was searching for a University of Alabama class ring in a pond in Somerville.
“It was lost for 20 years,” McCree said. The Somerville man was throwing a decoy duck into the pond, and he and his wife saw the ring fly off his finger. He had tried to find it himself with a metal detector but ended up flooding it. He contacted McCree in the fall of 2019 and in the first attempt, the water was too cold and in a second attempt, rain had left the water too deep for a search. Then on Aug. 16, 2020, she tried again, using hookah dive system gear. The ring was in the water 3 ½ to 4 feet deep.
“I remember I picked it up, I shook all the muck off,” she said. “I saw that red crimson stone shining up at me.”
A certified scuba diver, McCree found another class ring in April 2022.
A man was fishing off his boat in the Tennessee River near Decatur when his ring fell off. He marked the grid with a sonar fish finder. “We went back two days later, and I dove down, and it was within a couple of feet from where he marked.”
McCree’s longest journey to search for an item was to Starkville, Mississippi, on Thanksgiving Day in 2020. She got a call the day before from a woman who had lost the keys to her car, house and work, and McCree left home early Thanksgiving morning.
“It was a six-hour trip only to spend less than 10 minutes” searching for the keys and finding them among some leaves.
“I drove back, took a shower and was over at my family’s for the Thanksgiving meal,” she said.
McCree was contacted to help a couple who evacuated from Louisiana because of Hurricane Ida and were staying at a friend’s lake house on Lake Tuscaloosa. The man took off his wedding band and put it in his swim trunks’ pocket to apply sunscreen. He forgot to put the ring back on, and it was lost when he got in the lake.
On Sept. 11, 2021, “I just did a grid search, using my hookah system,” and found the ring, she said.
Even when she’s on vacation, she can be called on to help.
While visiting her parents in Tampa, McCree was metal detecting with her father on the beach on Dec. 30 last year when a man asked if she could search for his wife’s cell phone she had lost in the sand.
“Right there on the spot I was able to find it for her,” she said.
McCree has also found numerous rings that were thrown in anger or during an argument. “Actually, it’s quite common,” she said.
“I try my best on every search. I always give 110%,” McCree said. “I search every spot, I expand the grid. I like to walk away knowing I’ve searched every area, exhausted every option.
“God has blessed me with the gift of finding items and the resources to go on these searches. I always give him all the glory in all my searches.”
Engagement ring lost on the beach, Beach Haven NJ, LBI, recovered by Edward Trapper, NJ Ring Finder
While I was at work, I received a phone call from Ashley. She explained that she, her husband David, and their kids had been enjoying a beautiful afternoon at the beach when she took off her ring to apply sunblock. It wasn’t until hours later that she realized it was missing, remembering she had left it in the cup holder of the chair. After unsuccessfully searching, they packed up and headed home. A quick Google search led them to find my name, and Ashley promptly gave me a call.
We agreed to meet on the beach, and she briefly described the ring. When I arrived, David met me at the dune walkover. Based on his recollection of where they had been sitting and the pictures he had taken earlier in the day, we determined the search area. It was getting dark, and David had to return to the local amusement park to be with his kids.
I searched the area, widening my grid with each pass but had no luck at first. Along the way, I found some coins and a ring that didn’t seem to match Ashley’s description—I thought she had mentioned an emerald and diamond ring, but the one I found had emerald-cut diamonds. I set it aside and kept searching for another 30 minutes, still turning up nothing.
Back at my truck, I reviewed the information, puzzled as to why I couldn’t find the ring. Looking again at the one I had recovered, I realized it was a gold ring with emerald-cut diamonds. Curious, I called Ashley to ask for a more detailed description. This time, she described the ring as being yellow gold with emerald-cut diamonds all around. My jaw dropped—I had already recovered her ring without realizing it!
I sent her a picture, and she was in shock. It was her ring! Since she was staying just a few blocks away, I drove over to meet her husband David, who was extremely grateful for the recovery. We talked a bit, took some pics, and headed our separate ways.
Lost white gold wedding ring, Recovered, Coldwater Lake, Coldwater Michigan
Britney’s white gold ring fell off while enjoying the water at a shallow sandbar location. Her dad kindly taxi’d me out to search the site.
Once at the correct location, I jumped off the pontoon, lined up a certain tree and fallen tree limb and began detecting.
One fishing sinker, then a nice tone, Ring In The Scoop, in under a minute! Video link below: