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:
On 7/16/2025 a little after 9 a.m. I received a call and voice mail from a 724-area code. I was on my way to Charleston, SC for a VA appointment and wasn’t able to immediately respond. The voice mail said, “Hi Jim, my name is Misty. We found you on ring finder and I lost my ring yesterday. I believe I lost it when I got knocked down by a wave at the beach and I’m hoping that you can help us out and help me find that. My number is 724-etc.” After listening to the voice mail, I took a guess that they were in Myrtle Beach and quickly looked up the tides for the day. I called Misty and got additional details, like the time she lost it and confirmed they were in Myrtle Beach. She confirmed Myrtle Beach and said she thought it was around 2 p.m., her husband said between 12 and 3 p.m. I told her I could be there around 4 p.m. and see what I could do. Once I got to my appointment, I double checked the tides and realized I had the wrong day. That’s what happens when you’re driving and trying to look at your phone. My best guess was she had actually lost it about 2 hours before low tide. I text her and told her that low tide was at 6:31 and that I’d be there at 5. I also ask her to send me the resort address. She agreed to 5 and sent me the address. On the way back from Charleston, I was watching the thunderstorms moving through the area due to the heat we’ve been getting. I text Missy and told her I was keeping an eye on the storms. The rain doesn’t bother me cause I’m probably going to get wet going in the ocean. Lightning’s a whole other story; I’m basically carrying two lightning rods in my hands, my metal detector and my sand scoop. Both have carbon fiber shafts which are able to conduct electricity.
By the time I got to the beach, the storms had passed, the sun was shining, and it was hot again. I met Misty and her longtime friend Barbara in the parking lot. We walked out to their spot on the beach, and I met her husband, Justin. They were set up within a few feet of where they were the day before. I got a north and south boundary line, probably 30-40 yards apart and searched around their area from the day before. No luck there, I started a perpendicular east/west grid line from about the middle of the beach out into the ocean. I was finding the typical trash, bottle caps and pull tabs but no ring. I searched for about an hour and half and only had a few yards left to search. This being a white gold wedding band I was expecting between a 9 and 12 on the detector’s VDI (visual display indicator). Suddenly, I hit a solid 10-11 and I knew I had her ring. I dug out a couple of scoops of sand and saw her beautiful ring lying in the sand I had spread out with my foot. I reached down and picked it up and looked up at them as they were looking at me. Now for the shock reveal. I put the ring in my pocket with the bottle caps and pull tabs, oh and an earring I had found. I walked back up the beach where they were sitting, looking like I was exhausted. I pulled out the items in my pocket and maneuvered her ring under a couple of bottle caps in the palm of my hand. I told them I wasn’t haven’t much luck and offered to show her what I had found. I bent down to show her, and she suddenly saw her ring and from there things got very emotional, happy, total shock and disbelief. I loved it!!! Her husband told me he saw me move the ring but didn’t say anything. Misty came up out of her chair and gave me a big hug. It doesn’t get any better than that, a very happy couple.
Misty and Justin – Thank you for allowing me to help get your treasure back where it belongs. Have a great rest of your vacation and a safe trip back to PA.
Jim
If you lost a piece of jewelry at the beach (in the water or in the sand) give me a call/message at 305-608-1870 (Louis). I have a metal detecting service with 15 yrs of recovering lost items for people.
In the photos above a beautiful Chrome Hearts necklace and cross were lost the night before down by the waters edge in Miami Beach. She placed her belongings under a blanket so nobody would steal it, but as in most cases at the end of the day she had forgotten that it was under there and walked away. After realizing she left it behind she came back and searched all night but couldn’t find it. She came back the next morning but again couldn’t find it. Luckily I was only a few blocks away from her when she called and I was able to quickly get over there. The necklace and cross were a gift from a dear friend who recently passed away and was obviously very sentimental to her. She was crying and I felt horrible.
She pointed out to me the area where she was the night before. I began to search but after 15 min of going over the same are she had given up and thought someone must have seen it and picked it up (I did too but I knew better than to give up). I expanded my search area and it had somehow made its way down closer to the waters edge. She was ecstatic to be reunited with her necklace very thankful that I didn’t give up. This was a very special gift and I was glad I could recover it for her.
So if you’re reading this and you lost something, give me a call, louis 305-608-1870
If you lost a piece of jewelry on the beach and need someone with a metal detector and 15 yrs of detecting experience… give me a call, Louis, at 305-608-1870. I can come out and help you recover your lost item.
In the pictures above, I was called out to search for a platinum and gold Cartier watch that was lost down by the waters edge. It was placed in a shirt and then the shirt was moved and the watch fell out and buried itself in the sand. I was skeptical that it was still there, I thought someone saw it and walked off with it. But that wasn’t the case. Right when I was about to start searching it started to rain and she thought would t be able to detect. Luckily she put me in the right spot and my first signal, there it was. We had enough time to take a few pictures before the sky opened up.
Again, if you lost something, send me a text or call at 305-608-1870
I was contacted on July 12th, 2025 to look for a tungsten wedding band that was lost in the backyard while playing with the dog (the ring was lost for 2 days). The wife reached out to me after doing a Google search for lost ring recovery. The husband felt the ring leave his hand and had a specific location narrowed down where the ring might be located. I was in the backyard for less than an hour and returned the ring happily to the husband. All smiles 😃
The summer heat was making the sand too hot to walk on, so Emma retreated to the cool lapping waves on Coeur d’Alene lake. While enjoying the water, her friends and family started a game of water volleyball. While passing the ball back and forth, Emma spiked the ball. As the spinning ball flew off her hand, so did her two wedding rings. Everyone around Emma heard her panicked cry to stop, so they all froze and devised a plan to get the rings back. The rings sank deep into the water and hid in the sand as her friends and family dove and snorkeled around searching.
The day drew to a close, so the search was called off. Emma reluctantly left that beach praying for her rings, that they wouldn’t be found by a rogue treasure hunter.
Later that night, after researching metal detector rentals, Reddit told Emma to call the Ring Finders.
I got a call from Emma while at work. Emma described her tragic day to me. The news that Emma’s silver wedding rings were lost on CDA beach was alarming. I was off like a flash to gather my gear and head to the beach. After getting in the water and Emma giving me x and y axis for the drop zone, I began searching. The wind was whipping up the waves so high the water crested over my head. I kept the search going for two hours. After completing a wide seach area, I asked Emma for more areas to search. This question revealed some discriptive details that Emma’s brother in-law had noted. There were notches cut into the retaining wall for the beach where Emma sat. Her brother in-law had counted off 5.5 notches to the west and counted out 18 paces into the water where Emma was standing. I walked backwards as I kept my eyes on the 5th notch. About belly button high water, I got a repeatable 7 signal on my Equinox. It wasn’t a silver tone, but I dug it up anyways. As the sand fell through through the holes on my scoop, a diamond ring appeared. While calling Emma over to confirm that I found her ring, I noticed the stamp in the ring said 18k. With a dreaded tone in my voice I said to Emma, “It’s not your ring it’s a gold ring”. As Emma returned to where she sat, I finished detecting up to the edge of the water. Thinking the ring I found was super valuable I called Emma over to keep a hold of it. As I handed her the ring, she exploded with emotion. “That’s my ring!” she said. I was shocked, so I asked her to show me the photo she had of the ring. It was a match. The silver color was what Emma was describing to me, not the metal the ring was made out of. Determined, I knew the other ring was not far from the one I found. Keeping the same line, I walked backward into the water. I was in chest high water when my detector picked up a 7-8 signal . I shook out the sand to reveal a rusted bobby pin. As I removed it from the magnet in my scoop, I saw a shining object in the corner of the scoop. It was Emma’s other ring. I pumped my fist into the air to show Emma I had found it and walked quickly back to the edge of the shore. The news I found her rings reached back to the small family sun bathing on the beach, and they cheered as Emma and I walked off the beach.
This search tested my stamina, but the sharp details Emma’s brother in-law had recorded, gave hope. Hope mixed with prayers was the recipe that found these rings for Emma.
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In August 2020 a pregnant young lady lost her wedding and engagement rings that were tied on a string around her neck while walking to the mailbox. She was frantic and called me to help. After an extensive search I recovered her wedding ring but did not locate the engagement ring. The wedding ring was hidden in some grass by the community mail box sidewalk so we theorized the missing ring was found by someone getting their mail.
A water ballon fight with grandkids resulted in losing a man’s gold wedding ring. They contacted me the next morning, July 15,2025. I arrived that afternoon and showed them how my detector works, Whites MXT. As I started searching I asked Michael if he would like to use my spare detector and help search. After a very short tutorial Michael joined me in the search of their large yard. 46 minutes later the ring was found! But not by me. My first time to have the victim find his own lost ring!! This was amazing for me and for Michael. It is always so much fun to recover lost jewelry but this one was a rare treat indeed.
Anthony lost his wedding band a few days ago, in lake Michigan, while diving to catch a football. He said he was about waist deep and somewhat in line with the one buoy marker at this stop (Stop 37). He happened upon my information while searching on Facebook. He was back home in Illinois, but his dad was able to drop me off to perform the search (no public parking anywhere within a mile). Search took about 8 minutes. Thanks to good known location of where he knew it slipped off and very calm lake conditions since the loss.
This ring find began when I got a text from Army Specialist Jay who while doing his physical training run, went to give his oncoming fellow soldier a high five and his Tungsten Wedding ring flew off into the grass along the path and disappeared. I agreed to head home at lunch grab my gear and come to the base to search. We agreed 1:30 would work. We met in the parking lot nearest the Main Gate and got into my vehicle to go to the ring loss area nearby. Jay walked with me along the path and checked each of the targets in the grass to save time. We did the side away from the road first thinking that would be the direction of launch after the High-Five! No ring found. Then we did the side toward the road. About 5 minutes into that side I got a nice tone and perfect dot on the Manticore. We both looked down and could see the ring lying in the short grass. Jay was obviously relieved and even thought about buying a metal detector himself. Welcome to the adventure! Aloha to Jay!