This ring hunt began while I was about to enter Lagoon 1 on Scuba. A gentleman named Troy from Arlington, Virginia just lost his ring in waist deep water while playing catch with his sons in the water. I told him I’d give it a go once I completed the dive for another ring. After completing the dive without a find it felt good to find Troy’s ring just about where he thought it had fallen off. Quick & Easy! Aloha to Troy!
I got a call the day before yesterday and talked to Stephanie, who had lost her diamond engagement ring about a week ago in her backyard. She put her ring on top of the windowsill and the kids were running in and out of the sliding glass door. When she shut the door to stop the kids from running, the door shattered and glass was everywhere, and the ring fell off. As she was cleaning up the glass, she realized the ring was gone and got ahold of me through RingFinders. I went out yesterday and metal detected but there was a lot of trash in the grass, like bottles and caps so it was hard to find a signal. I looked for about two hours. Before I gave up, I checked the windowsill where I didn’t get any signals with the metal detector. I started to rake out the grass and dirt in that area, and shoveled that material onto a sifting screen and that’s when I found the ring. She was ecstatic to get her diamond ring back.
Marking The Spot Was A Huge Help
John & Jen were vacationing at Wrightsville Beach, NC. While John was playing with his son in the water, he noticed his wedding ring had come off in waste deep water. Wisely, John and his young son dug a trench in the sand pointing to the area they were standing when the ring was lost. Jen notified me shortly afterwards. As you can see in the picture, the line on the right side is the line John & his son made and the line on the left is where I drug my sand scoop to the first target, John’s wedding Ring!
Leah was enjoying a hot day on the beach in Kelowna B.C., she took off her rings so as not to lose them. Usually she puts them in her wallet for safe keeping, but her wallet was not handy so she put them in the chairs cup holder. At the end of the day her husband picked up the chairs and they went back to the hotel. When washing her hands Leah realized the loss of the rings, they went back to the beach to search for them, to no avail, Leah`s husband said they are gone someone has picked them up. Distraught leah searched the internet for help, finding The Ringfinders she gave me a call, I told he I would meet her at 6am on the beach. I arrived at the beach at 5am to beat the beach grooming machine, I noticed where they had searched on the sand and found the rings easily. When Leah arrived, I told her to give me a hug, then I handed her the rings, needless to say she was delighted, she told me she had not slept all night worrying about the loss. Another happy customer.
On July 4th, 1997 Larry was playing volleyball in front of his aunt Laurie’s cottage on Hess Lake when he lost his huge gold wedding band in about 3 ft of water. Laurie came up with picture to confirm that date. Old picture shows Larry in the center of the picture with his hands on his hips. He and his friends spent a good deal of time looking for the ring and finally gave up. He purchased a new ring and went on with his life.
Last week Gregg and Doug Larabel and I decided to hunt a sandbar in that area of the lake. After about three hours of hunting we headed for home dead tired and left the lake from a friend’s house right next door to Laurie’s house. Laurie spied us and said that her nephew had lost his ring in front of her place many years ago and asked if we could find it. We did a few swings around the area in front and told her we would be back to do a more thorough search at a later date.
This week, Gregg Larabel, my fellow Ringfinder and I came back to do that more thorough search for Laurie. After about an hour we were having no success and were about to give up when I hit a good signal and there was this huge gold ring in my scoop. The inscription inside the ring said “love forever LLB 7-22-78”. After 20 years Laurie was not sure if this was Larry’s ring or not, but after a few phone calls we confirmed that this was indeed Larry’s ring. The initials are his wife’s and the date is their wedding date.
Larry lives only a few miles from us and on the way home we delivered the ring to Larry. It cannot get much better than this!!
We took a mini-vacation with our friends G. & D. This time to the mountains of Wintergreen VA. It was kind of a long drive (3+ hours), but a beautiful place. Again, since I didn’t expect to SCUBA dive, I took my amphibious AT Pro instead of any one of my underwater detectors. I got to detect a couple of local lakes and found the usual trash and clad coins. Incredibly, the detector is so sensitive, I even found the back of an earring! In retrospect, I should have brought my SCUBA gear. While I was on a beach, a woman asked me to look for her GoPro camera. She had the spot, but it was too murky at about ten feet to find while snorkeling. The day before we left, I tried detecting a couple of hours on a ski slope. It was August, and pretty steep terrain. I felt a little like an anthropologist as I found clusters of items at certain areas. For instance, near the lift, there were many beer bottle caps and broken coat snaps. I can see in my mind the skiers settling down & enjoying a beer on the ride up. At the bottom of the actual slope, there were a few coins and broken pieces of ski boots. I’d love to go back in the spring, but I think I would need to be part billy goat because it was so steep. The photo is what I found at the lift and the slope. Afterwards, we had a fantastic dinner with G&D at Devils Backbone Basecamp Brewpub.
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Stuff from the ski slope.
Katherine is the first cousin of my son’s best friend from high school and I am friends with her grandfather. They had heard about Ringfinders and knew I was involved, but with the number of years gone by from when the ring was lost they assumed it was futile to look for it.
O.D., the grandfather, finally mentioned the lost ring to me and I immediately said, “Let’s go and get it.” Katherine had been playing in waist deep water at the campground beach four years ago when she noticed her white-gold ring with three stones was missing. Gretchen, Katherine’s mother, and Katherine were working at the campground this week and we made arrangements to meet there for the hunt.
Gregg Larabel, my fellow Ringfinder, and I arrived at about noon and in about ten minutes I had the ring in my scoop. Katherine knew exactly where she was when the ring was lost, and this made for a fast recovery.
Gretchen and Katherine were watching us from the beach and we called them over and presented the ring to Katherine by having her take it off my pinky finger. They were delighted to have the ring back, and Mom even shed a tear or two.
It is always fun to return a ring, but especially rewarding when you are friends with the family.
July 11, 2017, gold wedding band lost in the surf. About 2 hour later I returned the ring to the happy couple.
Gold and diamond ring found and returned to Antonio at the Caribe Hilton, Puerto Rico. July 2, 2017
Made someone very happy! I got a call for two lost rings on Sunday. While vacationing in Puerto Rico, Daisy had been in the surf when a wave snatched the rings right off her finger. Three days later a heartbroken Daisy stumbled across the Ringfinders page and found me. After gathering some information form Daisy I made my way to the beach with an approximate location where the rings were lost. After fighting the heavy surf the engagement ring was recovered. I returned the ring back to Daisy Rosario who was very very happy and grateful to have this ring back. Due to the heavy surf this has been by far my most challenging recovery.