Perhaps this ring looks familiar! It should . I posted it about july 12th 2012 when I first found it in the garden for a customer. Well, today I received another call from the same customer. This time the ring came off while hanging Christmas lights. Ironically, it was found about 3 feet away from where I found it last year!
Maybe I should consider a package discount. 😉
12/04/2013
Hi John,
I work for The Woodlands Township in The Woodlands and I supervise the
boathouse next to the woodlands mall. Today at work, my worst nightmare
happened. I went to shake someone’s hand and they pulled my ring off and it
bounced off the dock into the lake. It is about 4.5 to 5 ft deep where it fell
in and it is in probably a 5 by 5 ft area next to the dock.
I found you online at www.theringfinders.com when I was looking for metal
detector rentals. Is there ANY way you can help me with this. My ring is/was easily
my most prized possession.
Please, if you get a chance I would love to hear back from you with any help
you might be able to offer me.
Thanks in advance,
Kyle
I met Kyle this morning at the Woodlands Boat House and Kyle gave me a first hand
account of how the ring was lost and where he believed it landed in the water.
The job appeared easy from the top side, I was thinking, I’ll jump in this tropical warm
blue water, grab the ring and job complete.
Well the water wasn’t tropical or warm and the bottom of the dock was concrete with
apparently a lot of re-enforced re-bar. I found the ring, lots of luck on this job. I was
thinking to myself, Kyle you just witnessed an early Christmas Miracle 🙂
I was really happy for him, It was clear from the beginning the Ring was very important to him.
Kyle was nice enough to grab a shot of the recovery
Kyle with a big thumbs up.
Nice Ring
It was a good day
John
Equipment used on this Recovery:
Minelab Excalibur II
Received a call from Matt last night around 7:30 to see if I was able to come out and try and find his key fob for his Volkswagen that he lost on Saturday on a toboggan hill while he was sledding down the hill with his family. I told him if the keys are on the ground I will find them for him. I told Matt I would be there in 30 minutes I meet up with Matt at his house and walked over to the hill with my trusty V3i, Matt told me that he spent some time on Saturday evening looking for the keys but it was too dark to see also he was out early Sunday morning with no luck. Matt showed me where he was sledding on the hill and he had a spare set of keys on him, I tested his key fob and was getting a visual display of 37! Within 5 minutes I received a clear loud 37! on my unit Bingo!!! Key fob was located buried in about 4 inches of snow, another happy client Thanks Matt.
The trees have ears..?
The trees have eyes you might be saying, however deep in the mountains of northeast Washington they had ears. What I mean is that, a gentleman named Skip had lost his hearing aid while out hunting. After looking in the dark for a few minutes and returning the next day to find that it had snowed, Skip decided to look for help. He called a local metal detecting shop and asked about renting a detector. The sales man knew he wouldn’t have any luck so he told him to look up the Ring Finders. So a few days ago I returned Skip’s call and set up a date to go looking. it was 19 degrees, the ground was frozen, but the sun was out. It took one and half ours to drive out to the location, 5 minutes to walk to the area, and 2 minutes for me to turn on my Whites DFX. After Swinging it around and just barely hearing a change in the threshold while in pinpoint mode, Skip and I started looking on our hands and knees. Just moments into it Skip pulled out a piece of the aid from underneath a few twigs. So then we started moving around some branches and I spotted the other half that contained the inner workings for the aid. Happy, cold and elated to have helped this man, I thought I am so glad this was my first ring finders happy ending. Thank you for calling me Skip it means more than anything to have had the chance to help you.
Monday November 11, 2013 was a beautiful day for a search for a lost ring.
I was told of a lost ring by my detecting partner who could not go on the search. I contacted a second partner and we headed to Falmouth, MA to find a century old hand made Cuban diamond ring. It was Elena’s great-grandmother’s ring that Elena had lost it in the “back yard” while playing with her dog. Her “back yard” was about 20’x40′. Ah, but that was not the “back yard”. We had to walk to the town hall’s back yard…a much larger area. A quarter of the way through the second pass I heard a strong signal and saw the ring. See the Smile and Ring pictures, tart and thank you card. They tell the rest of the story.
We also recieved the following E-mail Thank You note:
Last November 8th I was playing with my dog, at the park. Suddenly, while I was throwing the ball my ring slipped out of my finger. I felt it fly away!
I expend the next two hours on my knees trying to find that ring. However, it was no where to be seen. The grass was to high, there were too many leaves on the ground. My husband help me, my neighbor, some passer-by … I went back late at night with a torch. I was back on early Saturday morning.
My husband inserted an ad at Craigslist, asking for some help or information to rent a metal-detector. We were so surprised when Richard Browne called us on Saturday morning offering his help. That only happens on movies!
He and Eleanor H. arrived soon after and, sure enough, they found my ring.
It was much farther that I ever expected. There is no way I would have ever found it.
This ring has been in my family for the past hundred years. It was my great-grandmother engagement ring. She died in Cuba soon after my grandmother was born. My grandma and her brother where sent back to Spain when they were really young, so little more than that ring is left of my Cuban family. It is much more than a ring.
I am so glad that Richard and Eleanor were able to find it. I would never be able to express with words how thankful I am.
Thank you.
Elena L. P.
Patti and her boyfriend Mark had come to Florida from New Jersey to attend a wedding in Orlando. They came to Clearwater to visit with family and had spent the morning sailing. After sailing they came to the Palm Pavilion for lunch and were just walking out toward the water when Patti realized it was a little warm to be wearing a scarf around her neck. She reached up to her neck to pull the scarf loose and felt her necklace break. She recovered her chain, but her diamond pendant was gone. Patti and her family searched in vain for about an hour and then a restaurant patron suggested she contact us through The Ringfinders web site. We sent someone right away and the search began. After several return trips we finally found it. As you can see she was one happy lady. Mark was pretty happy also. He had just given her the pendant in March and it was a one of a kind that he would not be able to replace.
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The streak continues! A gentleman by the name of Brock emailed me several days ago about his lost wedding ring. Again, I can’t emphasize enough how important taking good notes, both physically and/or mentally, are important to the success of finding your lost item. Brock did an excellent job at this which in turn made the chances of success very likely. Brock not only had the details fresh in his mind of exactly what happened, but he physically marked the spot he was standing on his property when he believed the ring flew off. He did go out and buy a metal detector and gave it a shot himself, but quickly realized that having a metal detector is only half the battle. Knowing how to operate it to its fullest capabilities is a must. Once I arrived at his home, I was able to recover the ring in about 25 minutes. It was about 5 yards from the spot he marked, buried in a small pile of leaves. Here are a few pictures of the ring itself and a very happy Brock!
Remember, if you are unfortunate enough to lose a ring, piece of jewelry, keys and the like, attention to your surroundings is the most important factor. The other is to contact someone that not only has a metal detector, but the skill and experience to use it. Please be sure to check everyone’s blog in your area if you need help. Once you do that, the decision who to contact should be an easy one based on success.
Edmonton had a heavy snowstorm yesterday receiving six inches of the white fluffy stuff, I received a call from Steven this afternoon in regards to his set of keys that he had lost while shoveling snow at his mother’s house this morning. I met up with Steven this afternoon and he showed me where he thought he had lost his keys along the sidewalk. I pick up my machine, went to work and after fifteen minutes, Bingo, found his set of keys. Another happy client!
Thanks Steven.
24kt. Wedding Ring Recovered in Sugar Land 11/05/2013
I received a call from Chetham, regarding his wife’s lost 24kt Gold Wedding Ring at a park in Sugar Land, Texas. Chetham reported he and his wife Nethra were at a gathering with friends when she lost her ring.
Chetham said he and his wife where sitting at one of the picnic tables in the park when her ring accidentally flew off of her finger and landed in the grass near the picnic table.
Chetham reported he and several friends searched for an hour or better on their hands and knee digging through the grass trying to find the ring.
Chetham said after unsuccessfully locating the ring he did a Google search and located the web site www.theringfinders.com.
I met Chatham and Nethra at the park today and we searched the area they felt the missing ring would be found. We searched and searched the area in question with no success. I had Nethra perform a re-enactment of where she was standing and what she was doing when the ring came off her finger.
The ring was located 180 degrees in the opposite direction of where they believed the ring would be found.
You can see from the pictures both Chatham and Nethra were very happen when their missing ring was found.
Chethan and his wife Nethra
Nethra’s Wedding Ring
Equipment Used on this Search:
CTX 3030 and Minelab Pinpointer Pro
I received a call last week from Tim who lost his wedding band while tailgating at a college football game the weekend before. He had rented a detector but didn’t find it.
So I met him and his wife today to try and find it. We gridded off an area where they had parked with marker flags and I went to work. Wow what a terrible place to try and find a gold ring. The pop tops and bottle caps just littered the ground.
I knew the ring had to be close to the surface so I didn’t dig any targets and I put on my small coil. I was there two and half hours with nothing to show for it but a pouch of junk.
Tim told me he had been wearing gloves that day but took them off when he was playing a game at a table they brought. So I asked him and his wife to direct me to the area where the table was that day as best as they could remember.
His wife walked over to a spot where she thought the table had been. She then bent over and picked up his ring! It was like magic. I told them I don’t care who finds it as long as it’s found. We were all very happy to have had a successful search.
Good luck to all the ringfinders out there,
Norm Slaymaker
