Received a call to recover a lost gold wedding band in a soccer field in North Chicago
He was playing goalie and made a great save,
however!, the ring went flying.
Took about an hour and found it about 30 feet out in front of the net.
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Metal Detector Helps Find Lost Ring in Ocean City, NJ – North End Beach Search Success
Ocean City, NJ is known for its clean beaches and relaxing ocean views. Perfect for summer memories.
Julia was enjoying her day on the north end of the beach. The sand was soft and warm.
But then, disaster struck. Her precious Claddagh ring slipped off and vanished into the sand.
The ring had emotional value — it wasn’t just jewelry. Julia began searching, but the sand offered no clues.
Julia contacted me through Ring Finders South Jersey, and I arrived at the north end shortly after.
With my professional metal detector and tools, I began a quick grid search in the suspected area.
Time is critical when searching for lost rings. Acting fast increases the chance of recovery.
Within minutes of beginning the search, my metal detector signaled a target just below the surface.
I carefully dug, and there it was — the missing Claddagh ring, still in perfect shape.
Julia was overwhelmed with joy. Another successful beach ring recovery in Ocean City, NJ.
Lost items on the beach may seem gone forever. But a trained ring finder with the right tools can help.
I’ve helped recover hundreds of items across New Jersey’s beaches, including rings, keys, and heirloom jewelry.
Every search is personal. Every recovery matters.
Don’t panic. Contact a professional ring finder with a metal detector right away. Time can make all the difference.
Call or text anytime. I’m based in South Jersey and available for fast recovery help across beach towns.
I got a call from English. He had lost his car keys on a remote section of Melbourne Beach. Stranded with a friend he googled lost my keys and found me on the Ring Finders web site. I was able to get to the beach before the heavy rain and darkness fell . He was very grateful and I was happy to help.
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Kevin was enjoying a perfect beach day with his family in beautiful Strathmere, NJ when disaster struck. While applying sunscreen, he removed his platinum wedding band and placed it on a towel… but it slipped off and vanished into the sand! 😱
He searched frantically, but as anyone knows, sand hides everything fast.
That’s when Kevin’s family called Ring Finders South Jersey for help. I arrived shortly after with my metal detector and got to work right away. The conditions were ideal—flat sand, not too crowded—and after just a few passes, I got a strong signal!
A quick scoop into the sand and there it was—Kevin’s lost wedding ring, just inches below the surface! 🙌
The relief and joy on his face said it all. Another happy ending, and another precious memory saved on the Jersey Shore.
Every ring has a story—and I’m always honored to help bring those stories back to life.
If you or someone you know loses something on the beach in Strathmere NJ (or anywhere along the shore), don’t wait. Call or text me right away!
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I dug a ring of keys out of the surf. Normally keys could not be returned since there is no identifying info. These actually had a bird band with a name and phone number! The man raises homing pigeons and had one of the bands on his key chain. This may be a good business idea!
On Friday afternoon, August 15th, I received a call from Scott. He had lost his Platinum Wedding Ring, the previous Saturday, in his backyard, in Auburn, Maine. His six year old son wanted to go camping, so Scott set up a tent, in the backyard. The next morning Scott noticed he no longer had his Wedding Ring on, it was gone. Scott and his wife checked out some photos, taken the previous evening. Sure enough, there is a photo of Scott, his six year old son and his 3 year old daughter, showing he was still had his Wedding Ring on, at 8:00pm. The backyard was throughly searched by Scott and his wife, but to no avail. Scott and his young son also had walked up the street, just a little bit and also about 50 feet, into the woods behind his house. These areas were also checked, over and over again, for the past 6 days. No ring found. Scott asked if I could help search for the ring, with my metal detector. As this was Friday afternoon, I told Scott that I was already booked this afternoon, in Moody Beach and that I was going to Boston, tomorrow morning. Where the ring was lost on his property, there was no worries about someone finding it, in his backyard. Scott and I agreed to meeting, on Sunday morning, to search for his wedding ring.
I arrived promptly at Scott’s house, at 8:00am and Scott came right out, to meet me. Scott walked me around the property, showing me everywhere he had been, after 8:00pm, when the photo was taken, showing he still had his ring on. I then started searching the backyard, where they had been camping. The entire backyard should only take me an hour to an hour and a half. If I didn’t find the ring in the backyard, I would then search the small area of the woods they had been in. If not in the woods, then along the street, up to the next house. As I was searching the backyard, I was getting lots of targets but they were showing to be 4-8 inches, in the ground and they definitely weren’t in the low conductor platinum range that I was looking for. Anything even close, I would check the target with my pinpointer and all the targets were indeed, in the ground, except a penny and a quarter, which I found, up along the rock wall and they were, on top of the ground. After an hour and a half, I completed the entire backyard area and no wedding ring. I then went into the woods and found the usual trash targets and a nickel, but no ring. I then went to the front of the house and searched along the street, up to the next driveway and again, no wedding ring. where could the ring be. There is a photo showing him with it on at 8:00pm and the next day, it’s not on his finger. I met up with Scott and told him that the ring is definitely not in the areas searched. I asked him if he had checked the tent, sleeping bags, clothing, etc.. Scott said he and his wife had searched those items multiple times. Scott said he was sure I would find it, in the backyard and said “I’m at a loss” and that they would recheck everything again. I then told Scott that I have had clients contact me days, weeks and in one instance, years after losing a ring, telling me they have found the ring, in a totally different place, than where they thought it would be. I mentioned a client had once found his wife’s missing Engagement Ring after 3 months, in the wiper cowel, of her vehicle. Crazy but true. As I was talking to Scott, I had him go over the events of 8 days ago, one more time. He gave the same story of the next morning, the ring was missing. I then asked him if he noticed the ring missing, as soon as he got up. He said no, that he noticed it missing when he was swatting hornets away, after the attacked him, between the pool and the house. WAIT, WHAT? HORNETS AGAIN? I then told Scott that approximately 3 weeks earlier, a client in Windham, Maine was attacked by hornets and his wedding ring flew off, into the woods. I ended up finding the wedding ring, in the thick overgrown brush, in the woods. Scott then says, “My hands were wet when they attacked”. I asked Scott to show me where this had happened. He took me inside the fenced in pool and to the area against the house, where the hornets attacked him. I turned my metal detector on and checked the plant that was being watered and pruned, when the hornets attacked. The wedding ring wasn’t in the plant. I then searched the rock landscape, along the house and plant. No ring, in the rocks, along the walkway and plant. I then walked behind the plant, searching the rocks, between the plant and house. All of a sudden, I received a very loud low tone, looked down, into the rock landscape and what did I see? It was a Platinum Wedding Ring, belonging to Scott. I looked over at Scott and said, “Scott, I found your ring.” Scott yelled out in delight and ran right over. He told me he couldn’t believe it. He was literally just there pruning the plant again and didn’t see it. Scott’s wife was also over joyed and everyone was smiling and just so surprised the ring had just been sitting there for the last eight days. As I told them, the wedding ring was “Hiding in plain sight”. As I tell my clients, Gary Hill and I ask lots of questions, for reasons like this. The questions may sound repetitive but the questions may just jog your memory and result in a ring being found.
As I left, Scott and his wife were still beaming with smiles, ear to ear and thanked me again. I could see the anguish in Scott’s face the entire morning and now the entire morning has turned bright and sunny. I am so happy he has his ring back and I’m sure he will be sleeping well tonight and with a smile 😃 ❤️🙏
After a late night recovery, at Longsands Beach, York, Maine, in York Beach Maine, I had to go to Boston, the next morning. As I was driving to Boston, Massachusetts, I received a phone call, from Lindsey. Lindsey’s sister, Paulette, had just lost 3 rings, in the dry sand, in front of The Brunswick, in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. They were a Wedding Ring, Engagement Ring and one other sentimental ring. The rings were White Gold and one of them had diamonds around it. After losing the rings, in the sand, the group searched but could not find the rings. They reported the missing rings, to the lifeguards and the lifeguards recommended calling The Ring Finders of Maine. That is when Lindsey, called me. I told Lindsey that I was on my way to Boston, Massachusetts, but I could get someone there and quickly.
Now, I had arranged, with Gary Hill the previous week to be ready for some call outs, as I wasn’t going to be available. As always, Gary stepped up and said he would be ready, if I called. As soon as I hung up with Lindsey, I called Gary and gave him the contact information, for Lindsey. Gary called me back a few minutes later and said he was meeting the clients, at the Brunswick, as soon as he could get there and he was leaving immediately. Once Gary arrived he was met by Lindsey and Paulette. Since they had left the area they were in, there was a question,bat to where they had actually been sitting. Each woman thought they were in a slightly different area, than the other one thought and another person, in the group, thought they were sitting somewhere else. Since the three area were all close together, Gary told them that he could search all three areas. Gary immediately grid searched the first area and only found the usual beach trash and a few coins. He then walked to the next location and searched that area, as well. Still none of the three rings had been found and there was just one area left to search. Gary then went to the third area and almost immediately received a nice low tone. Using his pinpointer, Gary located the first target, put his fingers, into the sand, felt a ring and pulled out the first missing ring. Gary ran the coil, in the area of where he found the first ring and he received a “funky sound”. He then pinpointed the area, put his hand, into the sand and was able to pull out the other two rings. That’s right, the other two missing rings were just pulled from the sand. Lindsey and Paulette were ecstatic and were so happy to get the rings back. Gary was also smiling ear to ear and was just happy to have been able to help these women out, with his Metal Detecting skills. As Gary always says, “I’m in it for the smiles” and he certainly saw some smiles today. There is no better feeling than to see the faces of our clients, when they see their lost jewelry, for the first time. What started out as a stomach turning disaster, turned into smiles and hugs. Thank you Gary, for all you do.❤️🙏
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After some beach wrestling between our son and his mom over a football disaster struck and her wedding rings went flying into the sand.
We searched for hours with help from others, but still no luck. As the sun began to set, we reached out to John at Ring Finders South Jersey for help recovering the lost wedding ring and anniversary band.
Sean wrote “📞 John showed up in less than 30 minutes, a metal detector in hand, and a headlamp on his head totally focused and determined.
After a careful grid search and lots of patience, John recovered BOTH rings! 🙌
He’s not just great at what he does he’s also down to earth, respectful, and truly cares about helping people. 💯
If you ever lose a ring on the beach in South Jersey, don’t panic. Call John at Ring Finders South Jersey. Highly recommended!”
This is a follow up news report with video on my recovery and return of Heather’s 2-24K Rings.
On 8/21/25 at 3:20 pm I received a text message from Nataly saying, “Hi! How much would you charge to find a ring? I’m at n Myrtle Beach.” I called Nataly at the number attached to the text and told her I do this on a reward/gratuity basis. I asked her the details of the loss, and she told me the ring had been put in a shirt pocket and then in a bag. At some point the shirt was taken out of the bag not knowing the ring was in the pocket. That’s when the ring fell into the soft sand and disappeared. At first, I thought she was in Myrtle Beach (because I didn’t see the small ‘n’) so I told her I could be there in 30-40 minutes. I asked her to send me the address and was out the door. When I got the text with the address, I called her to confirm it was in North Myrtle Beach, which she did. So, my drive time was down to 15 minutes.
When I arrived on the beach, I met Nataly (big sister to Rebekah) and Jondavid (gave the ring to Rebekah) under the umbrella, in the area where the ring was lost. I turned on my Equinox 800, took 2 steps and hit a solid 21 on the VDI (visual display indicator). Being a silver ring, I knew I had the ring. Took a couple of shallow scoops of sand, shook it out and saw the ring. I held the scoop up so Jondavid could reach in and grab the ring. Nataly told me that Rebekah was in the hotel pool, so I decided we walk up and surprise her. When we got to the pool, Nataly said to Rebekah, “Look at the ring I found.” Rebekah instantly knew her ring was found. Big smiles all around!
Nataly – Thank you for calling me and allowing me to help find Rebekah’s promise ring
Jim
