Priceless Treasure pulled from the depths of Lake Conroe in Lake Conroe, Texas
06/19/2016
I received a call from Carlos regarding his lost necklace and pendant in the waters of Lake Conroe. Carlos said while boating with friends this weekend, he had the misfortune of loosing a family heirloom (a gold chain with a gold and diamond pendant)
06/20/2016
Check out the video to see the set-up and recovery of Carlos’ necklace and pendant.
Although it’s not actually gold from the Atocha ship wreck, I thought this must be how it feels to find some really cool treasure pieces.
Equipment Used:
Excalibur II Metal Detector
Scuba Equipment
Search Grid
Sony POV camera
GoPro camera
The Ring Finders Metal Detecting Service-Houston
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Late Sunday night I got a call from Steve from Huntington Beach, California. While throwing a football in Turtle Bay lagoon his ring flew off. He wasn’t sure if it went forwards or backwards but marked his spot with a large stick in the sand on the beach. Forwards could have been 6 feet deep and backwards 3 feet deep. I told Steve we had to meet early Monday morning if we wanted a chance at finding his ring because many detectorists hit Turtle Bay regularly and early. I arranged to meet Steve at 6 am sharp. I brought my scuba gear just in case it was more then chest deep. When I got to the beach access parking I phoned Steve and he met me in the parking lot. We walked down to the beach and the tide was extremely low. Also thinking back when Steve lost the ring it was on an extreme high tide. Full moon in effect. I started about 5 yards to the left of center and started my grid search. On the third leg I got a loud tone but it was two quarters side by side. Continuing on about the fifth leg I got a screaming target in knee deep water. It took three scoops but there it was one of the most stunning designed Cartier rings I’ve seen. I asked Steve to tell me the design again and it was his ring. Steve told me he had only been married for 48 hours so the relief on his face was so very apparent. Another honeymoon ends well. Aloha to Steve.
Sheri and her husband were working on their Low Maintenance, water saving yard. Throwing the large rocks around the area, her husband heard a ping and noticed his 14k white gold wedding band was missing, he stopped work and looked around for it. With no luck Sheri called her friend in Vancouver who gave her my phone number, and said give him a call, he will help you search for it with a metal detector. When she called, I told her that with a construction site, time is of the essence and I would be there the next day. With her husband at work, Sheri showed me the location they where working, and said she suspected that it had fallen down between the large rocks. I knew from past experience that the ping meant the ring had bounced away, so I started the search around the perimeter, Sheri convinced it was in the big rocks continued moving them away. After around 45 minutes of searching and still outside the rock pile I located the ring 30 feet away from the rock pile around the location that they were standing, this location was scheduled to be levelled off with a cat the next day. Sheri was delighted and called me a Superstar
Was contacted the other day to help a local fireman find a wedding ring he lost at the volley ball court – was able to help him find it within just a few minutes!! So happy to be able to help!!
I received a call around 3:30 pm yesterday from Dave telling me his wife Christy had lost her wedding ring. She had been doing finger painting with her kids in the back yard and after she cleaned up realized her ring was missing. They had both looked in the grass and had no luck finding it.
Dave went on the internet to find a metal detector to rent and found The Ring Finders web site, so he contacted me. I told Dave I would be down around 4:30 pm and have the ring back on Christy’s finger.
Christy showed me where she was playing with the kids in the yard, had taken off her ring and set it on the table. I checked in the grass around the table, moved the table and chairs out of the way, and about about 2 feet from the table, I received a sweet tone, pulled out my pin pointer and bingo, there hidden in the grass was the ring. Without the right tools in hand this ring would never have been found.
Another happy client. Thank you Christy & Dave for entrusting me and The Ring finders to locate your lost ring.
After spending the morning metal detecting I was waiting for relatives to arrive for a Father’s Day Party. As relatives were arriving I received a call from Ken who lives on Oahu. Ken said that while he was playing volleyball in the water with his family as he went to strike the ball his ring popped off into the water. His daughter saw where it landed but like usual the soft lagoon sand consumed the ring. Ken immediately marked the spot in 3 feet of water with coral and stones they found laying around. He contacted his friend at Four Seasons Resort which put him in contact with Duke from Aloha Security and that’s how he found me. It was 5:30 and the sun was setting fast. Ko Olina is 30+ miles away and I wasn’t sure what traffic was going to be like so I told Ken I’d be on my way but not sure how long it would take. Thankfully traffic was very light and I made it there in 40 minutes. Ken was standing in the water next to the pile of coral & stones. He introduced me to his lovely wife Jackie (whose name you can see inside the ring) and his daughters who were waiting on the beach. I quickly started a circular search pattern working out from the pile. On the third leg about 20 feet from the pile I got my first target. It sounded good and one scoop later I pulled Ken’s ring from the scoop and handed it to him. Hugs, handshakes, thank yous and pictures all make this hobby so rewarding. Aloha to Ken & Jackie!
Received a call from Kevin last evening in regards to his lost wedding band while unloading clay/mud from his dump truck since the load was very heavy and wet the load was stuck to the box and could not dump the load, he did not have a shovel with him so he used his hands to try and free some of the clay to unload. Then after he finely got home that evening he noticed his ring was missing.
I got to the site where Kevin thought the ring could be and I said to myself WOW this is going to be a challenge as you can see in the pictures, took out the Spectra V3i With high Voltage power lines nearby and at peak usage hr. My V3i just would not work properly in any mode or adjustment, So out came the Garrett AT pro and away I went doing a grid search N/S and E/W picking out beer cans and bottle caps from the clay after about 2 hrs. searching and Kevin fearing the worst I received a low tone and a VDI 65 about six inches, buried in the clay was his ring so I call Kevin over he could not believe his eyes that his ring was found in all that gumbo.
Another Happy Client Thank you Kevin for entrusting Me and TheRingFinders to find your ring.
I picked up a voice message on my phone from a fisherman named Kenton at Honokohau Marina saying he’d lost his wedding ring in the water while cleaning fish.
Little did we know then – that an hour and a half later – we’d have one of our most exciting ring-recoveries to date. Kenton had already posted on our Facebook page before we’d even rinsed off our gear. He’d written:
Very thankful for the timely and professional recovery of my wedding ring from approximately 20 feet of shark infested water. The story associated with it is so ridiculous, you’d think it was a fish story so I’ll spare you the details. These guys showed and got the job done. Money very well spent!
That was the short version – here’s the long one…
We grabbed our equipment and raced to the marina trying to beat the quickly setting sun.
Kenton was there with a several fellow fishermen standing on the end of the narrow concrete pier where boats weigh and clean their fish. The head of a 700 lb. marlin sat in a pool of blood on the pier next to them. We met Kenton briefly and walked over to the pier side. He pointed into the water below which quickly dissolved from clear, tropical water to a hazy blue. Below there were rocks, boulders and … a massive tiger shark, at least 12 feet long, circling the spot hungry and fast.
I skipped a breath and Kenton exclaimed, “Oh, that’s not good.”
Tiger sharks are the second-most aggressive and dangerous of the shark world, after the Great White. We dive with them occasionally outside the marina but close encounters like this can end up badly. Had I jumped in now, the shark was so shallow I would have landed on it as he cruised just under us in broad circles.
“There was a feeding frenzy when I was gutting the marlin,” Kenton said as we watched the shark disappear, then reappear without warning. “I’d grab a handful and throw it off the pier, then suddenly my ring flew off with a handful of guts!” Turtles, moray eels, barracuda and a variety of sharks had all joined the feast. I looked into the water and wondered if the ring had survived to the bottom or was swimming around somewhere nearby in a turtle’s stomach…
Maybe we should just come back tomorrow I suggested… That wouldn’t work as there were nearby divers Kenton felt would go look for the ring to keep once the sharks had swam away. It was a family heirloom that couldn’t be replaced.
The sun was setting and the water was going dark so we had to make a plan. One of Kenton’s co-workers handed me a BBQ fork as a weapon and suggested tying the marlin’s bloody head to a line and towing it behind a dingy. Maybe the sharks would follow it to give us time to search? That sounded better than just fighting them off with a kitchen utensil, so they got the small boat and dragged the head off of the pier’s ledge into the water. Another of Kenton’s shipmates yelled out to the boat as it pulled away, “If the shark grabs it, just let it go!” The tiger shark was as big as the dingy and they didn’t want him getting pulled in.
I jumped down to a large catamaran’s pontoon and put my head underwater, upside down, with a mask on. The water was murky – but “all clear”… Kenton passed my scuba gear and Minelab Excalibur detector down to me while I stood on the pier’s rocky ledge, constantly glancing underwater to see if the sharks would return. Kenton’s co-worker yelled from around the corner that the large tiger was under his dingy.
Instead of climbing down, Sylvie jumped the five-foot drop into the water from pier-side with a splash. Unfortunately, she’d sat in a large pool of blood while doing so… Kenton passed her gear down and instead of a metal detector, gave her our long stainless steel metal detecting scoop to act as security.
My heart was beating quickly as we both scanned the now deep-teal colored and murky water. Sylvie turned her torch on. The marina was deep and I started detecting quickly as we deflated, hoping the ring had not fallen amongst the large boulders lining the decent into the marina’s center. Metal was everywhere, discarded from boats and the pier’s construction. I looked down the slope and my eye suddenly caught the small, circular shape I’ve trained to see, laying in the muck. It was dark and gray in the fading light, and I pulled myself quickly down the slope and grabbed it. I opened my gloved hand hoping – it was the ring! Sylvie stood on the bottom peering out into the marina and unaware of my find. I waved and yelled in my regulator and looked back at me. “Sharks!” I signaled, “I have the ring and let’s get out of here!!!” I pulled off my glove and jammed the ring onto a finger, afraid I’d drop it if the shark came out of the murk.
Kenton, with Brent and Sylvie Madison at Honokohau Marina with his found – and returned – men’s wedding ring.
I got back up to the top of pier’s base and held my hand up for an elated Kenton to take the ring off my finger. We were pumped up and climbed out of the water once our gear had been lifted out. A hose was turned on to rinse our gear while we took photos together and excitedly told the group how we’d found the ring. The rinse water washed the remaining blood on the pier down and instantly there were two large sharks where we’d just come out from – an 8 foot gray reef shark and a 5 foot white tip. We laughed – now that we were dry – and I was so happy the large tiger shark had decided to go for the fish head while we’d been under!
It had been one of the quickest ring-finds we’d ever done – but certainly to date it had been the scariest. We told Kenton to wear an outer ring next time he cleans a mammoth fish as I’d be happy to avoid the guts and glory of another ring search here!
PS – Sylvie left the GoPro on by accident as she was getting out of the water. It’s murky and quick, but did something come out of the water in the background…?! My heart jumped when I saw it… Here’s the VIDEO…
PPS – it was shot “by accident” as this up-side-down video was shot when the GoPro was hanging by Sylvie’s belt and “rolling” as she got out of the water. IS THAT THE 12+ foot TIGER SHARK?! Your call…!
Got an email yesterday from a young dad who had lost his wedding band a couple days ago. He had been walking in a pine grove hand and hand with his daughter, who is just a toddler. Apparently she had tugged a little too hard on his ring finger and it fell off in the pine needles. So my fiancee, her granddaughter and I went to the rural town to go search for it. On the way I was little stubborn and didn’t listen to our GPS, so we ended up taking the LONG way around! It sure was a beautiful evening for a ride in a classic, hilly section of VT. We even saw some deer, including a tiny spotted fawn.
The dad had narrowed down the likeliest area to begin the search. With a little coaching on my better detector, my fiancee’s granddaughter was off on the search. Soon her detector rang out with a strong gold signal. She pushed some pine needles to the side and there it was. The dad was so happy and relieved it was back on his ring finger!
What timing this hunt was, just in time for Father’s Day!
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I got a call from Kaley after she found me in the ring finders directory saying she had lost her Clemson class ring the night before when she took a 3am late night stroll on the beach. She informed me she had lost the ring in Myrtle Beach which is TRF member Matt Fry’s area so I told her that I would call Matt and one of us would be calling her back within the next 10 minutes. I contacted Matt and filled him in on what was lost and the location. He told me he was too busy at work and had his own lost ring call to work in the evening and for me to go ahead and take Kaley’s lost ring. I called Kaley back and told her I’d be there in 30 minutes.
When I arrived I met Kaley on the beach behind her hotel and noticed the area was packed with families here on vacation. She gave me the description of the ring and a friend of hers had the same ring so I was able to run a test with my machine and get a visual idea of what I was looking for. She also told me she had rented a metal detector and didn’t have any luck in finding her ring or anything else. Unfortunately I was battling a rough incoming tide that was close to being at high tide and trying to work around families that were where I needed to search, not a good combination. So I told Kaley I’d be back in about an hour and work the outgoing tide and figured most of the families would be gone to dinner. When I got back the tide was outgoing but I think the families had increased. I was able to work around those in the surf but I’m thinking that if she lost her ring within 30 minutes of the high tide last night the ring should be pretty close to the high tide line and this would be a quick search – not the case!!! As I’m working my way down the tide line, I’m thinking there’s no way the ring could be this far down the slope of the beach. Finally at 8:30pm and a good 3 hours of searching the 75 yards of beach Kaley was sure she lost it in I got a good solid signal almost at the low tide line, dug a scoop full of sand and saw the gold in the bottom of the scoop. I either had somebody else’s ring or Kaley’s – bingo, it was Kaley’s. She was scheduled to leave some time today so I took a picture and texted her “look familiar?” She immediately texted me back with “OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!!” Luckily she was still in town and finishing up a game of putt putt golf, she showed up about 40 minutes later and came running out on the beach. She informed me that when she lost it at 3am she called her mom and dad crying, having 2 daughters of my own I could relate to this real easy. Got a few big hugs and many thank yous!
Kaley’s is a student pilot and is on her way to a new job in Wichita, KS and now gets to take her college ring with her. Kaley, you are a very sweet young lady, best of luck to you in all your future endeavors and thank you very much for the more than generous reward.
Jim
Thank you for reading my blog and please remember to contact a member of the ring finders as soon as possible after losing your valued treasure so it can get back where it belongs as soon as possible.
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Tiger sharks are the second-most aggressive and dangerous of the shark world, after the Great White. We dive with them occasionally outside the marina but close encounters like this can end up badly. Had I jumped in now, the shark was so shallow I would have landed on it as he cruised just under us in broad circles.
