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Lost Silver Celtic necklace charm, Grandville, MI

  • from Manistee (Michigan, United States)
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photo 2Brenda B. called me today just as my wife was taking fresh biscuits out of the oven for strawberry shortcake. I told my wife I would be right back because Brenda lives a couple miles away. So I jumped in my car and headed for Brenda’s house. Upon arrival I drove up to a newer development of homes with well manicured lawns and in the middle of her lawn was a screw driver sticking out of the grass. I rang the doorbell and met Brenda, she told me her daughter lost the charm off her necklace while playing in the lawn with her boyfriend. The screwdriver marked the spot where she thinks she lost it. I set up a grid and started in line with the screwdriver I moved back and forthe for about 10 feet both ways. It is amazing how many coin hits I got in a newer lawn but that is not what I was looking for. I expanded my search out about 20 feet and there it was in direct line from the screwdriver 20 feet away. All is well and I suggested that Brenda buy her younger son a detector to find some of those coins.

Got home 45 minutes later and the biscuits were still fresh and warm.photo 1

 

 

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White Gold Wedding Ring Lost & Found On Swanage Beach

  • from Bournemouth (England, United Kingdom)
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Day trippers to Swanage, Mr & Mrs Rob Evans had enjoyed the day playing with their children on Swanage Beach. Skinny dipping in the sea, building sand castles and playing catch are the biggest causes, I’ve found, to losing jewelry on the beach.

I had received the phone call from Rob after he had found me on The Ring Finders earlier that day. Unfortunately I was out of town on another ring job and wouldn’t be able to make it until the early evening. We met that evening and I was given a run down of where the family had been so we could assess the search area. Unfortunately there was a possibility it could now be under the advancing tide- not a problem but makes things more difficult!

The beach was unusually high in trash due to the storms turning things up. After about an hour I was beginning to consider ‘plan B’ when I received a strange ‘mixed’ signal from the Minelab CTX3030. I recall receiving it earlier and ignored it thinking it was foil. I even said to Rob as I used the sand scoop “don’t get your hopes up its’s probably trash”! Relieved, though a little embarrassed, there at the bottom of the scoop lay the white gold engraved ring AND a large rusty screw!!IMG_1265IMG_1267

A very grateful Mr Evans contacted the air ambulance and made an extremely generous donation. Thanks Rob!

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White Gold Wedding Ring, Exchanged, Lost & Found On Bournemouth Beach – All within 24 Hours!

  • from Bournemouth (England, United Kingdom)
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Sunday. The sun is shining, the tide will be low. I thought it would be a perfect day to head off to make yet another attempt to find a lost watch on Boscombe Beach. As I was getting off the Chain ferry I received a phone call from Leo Fung of Bournemouth.

Leo, his new wife and friends had been enjoying the weather on the beach having been married only 24 hours earlier. Whilst playing with a football, Leo felt the ring slip off and caught a glimpse of its direction. They searched the beach extensively for a while until someone remembered seeing me on the BBC news. A quick Google search on their smartphone revealed my number, a phone call and I arrived withinIMG_1192IMG_1193 half an hour. Within 30 seconds we found the ring, new shiny and very nearly lost. It was the heaviest white gold ring I think I have ever recovered and I’m very relieved to have recovered it for them.

Mr & Mrs Fung made a kind donation to the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance to which I am most grateful.

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Gold Wedding Ring- Lost & Found in Somerset Garden

  • from Bournemouth (England, United Kingdom)
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After reading an article in the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance magazine of my Ring Finder services; Mr Brian Marchment of Somerset decided to give me a chance to find his wedding band he had lost 3 months earlier.

The drive was long, three hours in fact, accidents, diversions and road closures too!  The location was easy to find, the garden was even easier to navigate. Tidy flower beds, stone walls, gravel paths and many uncomplicated areas that seemed easy to detect.

After speaking with Mr Marchment about the day of his loss and replaying it, we decided where the search was to begin. Within 30 seconds of searching,IMG_0922IMG_0919 between the brick path boundaries and grass the detector let off the gold ‘growl’. Laying out of sight, camouflaged by the gravel, lay our ring.  Mr & Mrs Marchment were very pleased having been married decades and made a generous donation to the air ambulance.

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Lost Ring ~ Corporation Beach, Dennis, Cape Cod ~ Found Ring Returned

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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The water was still cool, but very inviting on the warmest Sunday so far this summer. Victor and his wife could not refuse the clear water’s calling. However they did not know it was call for Victor’s wedding band. As the two sat in the water they watched as Davy Jones’ locker opened up and claimed the ring. Smart thinking on their part to mark the spot on the ocean’s floor with two rocks before moving was a key action to what was to follow.

After a great effort to find the ring went without success, they left and returned home. A search on the internet led them to TheRingFinders.com…USA…Massachusetts…Cape Cod…and Rick Browne. A request was sent and quickly answered. Help was on the way. The next day at low tide Rick was to meet Victor at the beach. Rick arrived a bit early and went right into the water and searched for the rocks. It took him 30 minuets to locate the rocks due to the confusion in the numbering of the lifeguard’s chairs. Rick used the numbers on the chairs 1 and 2, not the left to right counting of chairs while standing in the water and looking on shore.

Only one rock was found in the 30 minute search and only one signal from Rick’s metal detector was heard. The signal came for one inch away from the rock Victor had placed where his ring had slipped from his finger. One scoop and Rick had the ring. The second rock was under the visible rock.

A few minutes later Rick and Victor met and the ring was returned and replaced on its rightful finger.

Placing a marker or dropping several coins in the area of a lost object will aid a metal detectorist in a search for the lost object. Remember this should you ever find yourself in a similar situation on land or in the water.

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Lost Gold Ring in Daytona Beach surf….Found!

  • from Sanford (Florida, United States)
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Last week I made plans to do some beach detecting and decided to search an area of Daytona Beach that had a couple of high end Hotels.  Lots of people vacation here this time of year and I figured there had to be some treasures lost in the surf and sand just waiting for me to dig up.  I arrived two hours before low tide and spent a total of 6 hours swinging my Whites Dual Field metal detector in and out of the water hoping for a few good finds.  I found a few coins , a couple of junk ear rings, loads of hair pins and even a small medallion off of someone’s necklace.  Then about 4 and a half hours into my search I got a really sweet signal and out pops a nice gold ring!  I had to wait till I got back to my van to read what was engraved inside.  The name Mariam and a date of 03.05.2003.  When I got home I showed my family the nice gold ring that I found and I figured it would be another nice addition to my collection of rings…but it was not to be.

Later that evening I sat down at my computer to check my e-mails and look up the markings on the inside of the ring.  The markings turned out to be Egyptian and told me the ring was 18 carat gold.  Next I checked my e-mail and there was a message thru theringfinders.com from a lady who said the following:  “Hi Mike,  I found your info online.  My husband, Amgad, lost his wedding band in the ocean in Daytona Beach in front of the Hilton resort last Saturday.  We tried hard to find it with no hope.  My husband has had his ring for 11 years and it slipped off his finger in a second while surfing with our son.  Please, if you can help us find it we would really appreciate it.  We live in Missouri, about 15 hours away and we had to go back home last Sunday, but we still have hope and faith that everything is possible.  Please we  need your help, you don’t know how sad my husband is since he lost his ring!   Thanks, MARIAM

I could hardly believe what had just happened!  Could I have actually found the ring they had lost before getting the request to look for it?  There really was no doubt!!  The name Mariam— plus the fact that Amgad had worn his ring for 11 years and the date of 03.05.2003 was proof enough!

After sharing my MIRACLE with Mariam she wrote me back saying:  “Oh my GOD, I thought you ignored my e-mail.  It is a Miracle!  My hands are shaking while I write to you.  There are no words I can say to thank you enough.  You are the angel that God sent to find our ring.  You would not believe how this past week was for my husband.  I will tell everyone I know about theringfinders.com.”

Two days later Mariam wrote:  “I still cannot believe what happened!  I read your e-mail 10 times a day and tell myself God is so good!  What you do as a hobby (metal detecting) is really a very helpful thing.  Especially when people like us lose a very valuable thing – that losing it really touches their hearts and finding it by an angel like you touches their hearts even more!  As I said and I will be saying for the rest of my life, thank God and thank you for being God’s messenger that found our missing wedding band and delivered  the GREAT NEWS to us when we so badly needed it!!”

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Miriams husband and ring

Mariam and Amgad, I am so happy to have been able to help you in getting your ring back and thank you for your generous reward and kind words.

Mike McInroe, proud member of theringfinders.com

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Three Lost/found Wedding Rings at Gordon’s Pond Rehoboth, Del.

  • from Lewes (Delaware, United States)
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image On 06-07-14, I was contacted by a gentleman regarding his daughters three wedding rings that had been lost in the sand on the beach at Gordon’s Pond State Park beach in Rehoboth, Delaware. I learned that the daughter had taken her rings off and placed them on a towel while she was putting suntan oil on her daughter. The husband unknowingly picked up the towel that the rings were laying on and all three disappeared in the sand without a trace. I responded to the beach where I met all of the parties involved and began my grid search for the rings. After the third pass the sand gave up her bounty and one by one I was able to recover each ring and I returned them to their rightful owner. As each ring was recovered a group of spectators gave out a cheer.

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Lost Engagement Ring, Versluis Park, Grand Rapids, MI

  • from Manistee (Michigan, United States)
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I was on my way home from my daughters house when I got a call from Laura B. I could tell she was tearing up as she told me she lost her engagement ring at the park. She was turning the ring around on her finger when all of a sudden it popped off and landed in the beach sand. Searching frantically with her mom and husband to no avail they decided to go to Walmart and get a detector but they didn’t have any so they searched the web and found the ringfinders. I told Laura I could make it to the lake in 20 minutes and changed my course and headed that way.

Arriving at the lake I was greeted by Bob the park manager and he directed me to Laura who started tearing up again. She showed me where to search and I began. I used my Fisher F75 and got so much interference that I had to go to my Bounty Hunter Time Ranger on All Metal setting. I was looking for a white gold ring with and heirloom diamond given to her by her grandmother. I started to grid a 10 foot section without success and went the opposite direction still came up empty. I asked her once again to stand where she lost the ring and show me how she lost it. I then expanded the search to 20 feet and went one way then turned the grid the opposite way. Laura’s mom, Karen, followed me this time and as I swept the grid she noticed a glimmer in the sand from the sun, I must have kicked up the sand enough while missing the hit and mom said “there it is”!

Tears started to pour from Laura as she hug her mom and then me thanking me so much for coming right away. Mom was the real hero this time.

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White Gold Diamond Ring Found Austin Minnesota

  • from Twin Cities Metro (Minnesota, United States)
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Gina and her fiancé were out doing yard work when she noticed her diamond engagement ring was missing from her finger. They decided to rent an Ace 250 metal detector and try searching the yard. Lot’s of targets but no luck. As all of the experienced metal detectorists know, it’s a long learning curve to actually work a metal detector correctly. There are so many targets including coins, trash, pull tabs, cans etc. – you really need to know what your listening for in these types of areas. Gina found the ring finders web site on the internet and left me a message. I was able to meet up with her the next morning for a search. We needed to search the front yard, side yard and boulevard. After an hour or so with no luck I searched just a bit out of our search area in a tall grassy weedy area – Thanks Gina for getting out that weed whipper! A couple more sweeps of my trusty Minelab E-Trac and out popped this beautiful ring! So glad it was found for you Gina, you are a sweetheart and I pray for a long and happy marriage for you and your fiancé!

 

Take Care – Darrin

 

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$30,000 Ring Disappears in my Kitchen, Addison,Tx

  • from Dallas (Texas, United States)
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We received a call from a wonderful lady named Sandy, she said she had a desperate situation.  I said OK, tell me what happened.  With tears in her voice she said she lost a  family heirloom, a 6 carat diamond ring, explaining how every diamond represented each member of her family who had passed away in her life time.

Sandy said that she had come home from work and gone into her kitchen.  She always takes off her ring to fix dinner and always puts it in the exact same place.  The ring slipped out of her hand and bounced once on the counter  and disappeared.   She had searched for 2 days but could not find the ring.  She had removed everything from the counters, nearby shelving and checked under everything with no luck in locating her ring.  I smiled to myself as she was telling me her story because it sounded just like a situation we had a few years ago of a man who loss his wedding band in his apartment bathroom.  We made arrangements to come out in 2 days when her schedule would permit her to be there with us. (Note: Always have the client there when you initially search, many times the stories change when you arrive on site).

My wife Ellen, my son Tripp and I, all three went to Sandy’s home around 5:30pm; Sandy met us a the door and was so nice.  I knew that our detectors would not work in her kitchen, so we only took in our pinpointers and inspection camera.  Sandy described and went through the motions of reenacting what had happened with her ring.  The whole time she was talking I was assembling my inspection camera.  I began looking under and behind all the appliances and at first thought I saw it under the refrigerator but that was not it.

Then I laid on the floor and looked up under the kick plate of the kitchen cabinets and once again found a small gap of about 1/2 inch up under the cabinets.  Understand this was not a large kitchen so we knew the item still had to be close.  I used our inspection camera to run the 36″ camera line up inside the baseplate of the kick plate under the cabinets.  The angle was very difficult to get the camera line into and tough to move around but in about 10 minutes we discovered the ring.  I did not say anything but just winked at my son and my wife.

My son and I then went about trying to retrieve the ring as it was way back inside the underneath portion of the these cabinets.  After using the tip of the camera and a coat hanger we began inch by inch to move the ring closer to the front of the cabinets, being only able get about 2 inches of our fingers inside gap.  At this point the customer still did not know we had found the ring.  While discussing techniques to retrieve the ring she heard us talking and we then confirmed with her what we found on our camera.  She had to bend over and look at the screen but when she did she squealed, “that’s it, that’s it”, and began to cry. When  she calmed enough to take a breath she started saying to her husband “they found it, they found it”.  My wife had to console her while my son and I worked to pull out the ring.  We could have had  pulled off the baseboards but they had been painted over so many times and were so old we knew they would have broken.  So we continued the slow way. Soon my son was able to get a coat hanger over the ring and then hook it enough to pull the ring up, remember this is being done laying on our backs looking at a 3″  screen on our inspection camera.

My son handed Sandy her 6 carat family ring (estimated $30,000), she was beyond happy, she hugged all of us many times and could not thank us enough.  It was so much fun seeing her reaction and to know we helped put a smile back on her face and in her heart.

Another successful find for “The Ring Finders”.

Don & Ellen – Dallas

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