Lost – Men’s Gold Cartier wedding band – Daytona Beach, FL – FOUND!!!
Mother’s Day was a perfect day and my wife, Myrna, and I topped it off with a bike ride to our community pool. When we returned, I was putting away the bikes when I got the call from Yanaia. She said that they were at the beach and lost a ring. I could sense the distress in the tone of her voice. I hopped into the car and headed her way.
When I arrived, the beach was packed, and Yan was waving me down. I found out that her husband, Eddy, was the one who lost the ring…a heavy gold Cartier wedding band. I thought to myself, “this should be easy!”
Eddy was standing in the middle of a tidal pool that was roughly 20ft in diameter. He was holding a metal stick to mark where he thought he lost the ring, and his expression was very worried.
I fired up the Manticore and began the search. I swepted over the middle spot of the tidal pool where it was obvious, they had been digging. Nothing. I expanded the search in a spiral outward until I had covered the entire tidal pool. Nothing but a penny, a trash item, and a very small screw.
I began to grid off around the water and toward the beach, going into the surf somewhat. I stopped and prayed. This search should not be this difficult! As I expanded toward the driving lanes, I got a great hit and suspected success. I heard the tell-tale jangle in the scoop and saw gold!
As I handed the ring to Eddy, his expression changed in an instant from desperation to exuberance. I was the recipient of hugs from Yanaia and Ariana. Cheers from Jose, Joshua, and people all around! The item that was lost was found.
I got a text one evening from my old boss, he was asking it if still do recoveries. He explained that he was on the beach and a guy was digging around in the sand looking for something. He couldn’t help but ask what he was doing, and he said looking for my wedding ring. With that he told them about my and exchanged my information. Alex called a few minutes later and we went over what happened. He had decided to jump into the ocean for a swim, but prior to doing so, placed his ring and other stuff he was holding into his pants pocket. I had to head right there due to the fact that beach is heavy detected, and the ring might not last overnight. We walked right out to the surf as the tide was coming on rather quickly. Alex had some things marking the area, and i quickly started searching down low on the hill. He was pretty sure his stuff was up higher but I just wanted to make sure before the water got too far up. I completely covered the area we thought the ring would be, without any sign of the ring. Alex and his wife Carlie were on vacation and has to leave, as some friends were up at the restaurant waiting for them. I wasn’t given up just yet, and continued to search the path they had taken back to the dune walkway. With the very deep/soft white powdery sand the Jersey beaches have, it was no to easy seeing right where they had walked. After walking half way back, I turned around and did another sweep back to the water with no luck again. Spreading out even further to the north I located his ring about 150’ from the high tide line. I quickly called him, hoping to catch them before they left the area, which I did. We met on the boardwalk where I handed his ring back, which made the end of his vacation fantastic.
