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Heirloom Ring Lost & Found: by Rob Ellis, Virginia

  • from Fairfax (Virginia, United States)
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While walking his dog, Arlo took off his ring and put it in his pocket for safekeeping. When his dog suddenly ran after a deer, he chased it through the hay field. After he caught the dog, Arlo realized his ring was missing. He called and told me and explained what happened and that the ring was one of the few things he’d inherited from his recently deceased mother.

After a 90-minute drive, I met with Arlo, and he showed me exactly where he traveled through the field. Using my feet to crush down the vegetation, and laying out my rope grid, I began to search for the ring.

 

After two hours of intense search in the heat, I found the ring!

 

For my fellow detectorists:

Target ID for this 9.4-gram, silver and garnet ring: Deus 2=98, Equinox 900=85.

 

Don’t give up. Many of my clients have bought, borrowed, or rented a metal detector before calling me. Just because someone has a tool, it doesn’t mean they know how to use it. I use state of the art equipment, and I have thousands of hours of experience searching on land and underwater. If you have tried using a detector without success, please text/call to see if I can help.

I am an expert metal detectorist with the knowledge, skill, and experience to recover your lost items on land and underwater. Please text or call as soon as possible: (703) 598-1435

 

 

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Lost Gold Wedding Ring Recovered on Pass-a-Grille Beach

  • from Tampa (Florida, United States)
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Item recovered August 4, 2025.

Peggy had sent me a text at around 5:30 on Sunday, August 3rd about a ring she lost in the water at Pass-a-Grille Beach. She has been here on vacation from Kansas, enjoying the beach with her family. They went in about waist-deep and she felt the ring slip off her finger into the water. Her daughter who was near her tried to catch it, but felt it bump off her hand to the sand below.

I didn’t see the text until later in the evening. By then, it was already dark and I wouldn’t be able to get there until after work the following day. Peggy mentioned that she had reached out to several people, and that someone from the Suncoast Research & Recovery Club (SRARC) team was going to attempt to find the ring in the morning. I told her to let me know if they weren’t successful in locating the ring that I was available to search.

I received another text from Peggy in the afternoon the following day saying that one of the SRARC members had searched in the morning, but wasn’t able to find it and so I told her I would be happy to head out after work to search.

The waves were large in the evening, but because the loss location was waist deep, I didn’t have to venture too far into the water. Peggy had forwarded me the gps coordinates of where they were on the beach, which helped narrow the search area even further.

I started searching about knee deep and worked my way to waist deep water. I was finding small bits of eroded aluminum “can slaw”, which is common to find at this beach.

About 30 minutes into the search, I came across a solid signal which was higher than the aluminum scrap I had been finding. I took a scoop at the target, sifted the sand out and what I saw was a beautiful gold ring looking back at me!

I texted a photo of the ring to Peggy, who immediately met me at the beach to get her ring back!

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Gold Sword Charm Found on Fort De Soto North Beach

  • from Tampa (Florida, United States)
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Item recovered August 2, 2025.

This recovery was another where I happened to be at the right place at the right time. The last time this happened was exactly one month ago when I found a ring for Quinn on St. Pete Beach.

I was out enjoying the perfect detecting conditions on Fort De Soto’s North Beach on a beautiful summer Saturday. I had already been out there for several hours and was getting tired, thirsty and ready to head back home. As I was walking back along the water’s edge, I was approached by a young man who had asked if my detector could find something that was made of gold. His sister had lost a charm off her necklace a little ways down the beach and her entire family was searching for it for the past 15-20 minutes with no luck.

I was led to the area where the charm was lost. English wasn’t the family’s primary language, and I could only understand that the item lost was a small gold sword from a necklace. It was lost along the water’s edge, where waves were coming and going. I wasn’t sure how large the item was, but it was possible the waves had pulled the item deeper into the water or buried it in sand.

The pressure to find this item was more intense than usual, with 8 people watching me work back and forth in the shallow water. I would find a target, and they would crowd around to see if it was the missing item, only to see it was a bottle cap. This happened again when I located a pull tab in the area. I moved up higher into the wet sand and got a solid low signal. When a wave washed over the area, I thought I saw a glimmer of gold, so I dropped to a knee and pulled out my pinpointer instead of using my scoop.

My pin pointer immediately identified the item’s location just below the sand. I dug in with my fingers and saw gold. It was the lost sword charm they had been searching for!

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Gold Heart-Shaped Locket Recovered at Belleair Causeway Boat Ramp

  • from Tampa (Florida, United States)
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Item recovered July 31, 2025.

Mikey had reached out to the Dunedin Ring Finder in the evening about a lost gold heart-shaped locket. Steve was busy at another recovery search and reached out for assistance. It was getting late in the evening and Mikey was still at the location to show where the item was lost. I knew time was short before darkness would arrive so I gathered my equipment and set out on the 35-minute drive to the boat ramp.

I called Mikey on the way to get more details on the loss. He explained that earlier in the day, his girlfriend, Ryann had been in the water at the dog beach teaching her Great Dane how to swim. In the process, the dog’s paw had caught her gold necklace, breaking it and the charm had fallen off into the water. Fortunately, the gold chain got caught up in her swim suit and never fell into the water. All that was missing was the gold locket which slipped off the chain.

I arrived at the location and Mikey showed me to the area where the locket was lost. The water in the channel was dark, murkey and loaded with small pieces of metal from fishing weights, to bottle caps and pull tabs. Due to the small size of the item, it seemed as though this recovery could be a challenge, especially since I only had an hour or two of daylight remaining.

The search started in the shallow water and I worked my way down to a drop-off into the channel approximately waist-deep. Because the search are was narrowed considerably, I dug at every non-iron target I heard. I must have been on my 14th to 15th item when I pulled up my scoop from the water and noticed the obvious glow of the golden heart resting atop the silt. The item had been found!

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Unique Gold Ring Recovered in South Tampa

  • from Tampa (Florida, United States)
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Item recovered July 10, 2025.

I received a text from Tracy in the evening of July 9th asking for help locating a white gold “link” style ring with diamonds that was lost in the back yard throwing a frisbee for the dog. Despite searching the area where the ring disappeared, it had not been located that evening. We agreed to a time to search for the missing ring the following evening after work.

The back yard wasn’t very large and it was easy to see the area that was searched for the missing ring. I powered up the metal detector and started working around the area that had been searched. It only took a couple minutes to get a very promising signal that revealed the missing ring.

Due to the ring’s unique shape, it had “collapsed” into a small object that was hidden below the blades of grass and was very difficult to locate with the naked eye. Tracy was thrilled to have the ring back!

If you have a lost an item in your yard in the Tampa area, please call or text me to schedule a search!

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Yarmouth, MA: One Year to Find and Return a Ring by Richard Browne

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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July 18, 2025 It was on July 27, 2024 that I received a text requesting help finding a lost ring.

“Good morning! My son lost his wedding ban in the water on Smugglers Beach in South Yarmouth this past Sat. He was about waist high when he believes it must have slipped off. Is this something that could be found? It is a gold band and I think it was around 2pm that he lost the ring. Thank you! Jennifer (mother)“

As luck (good or bad) had it I agreed to help and arranged for myself and two other detectorists, Leighton and Jim) to go and search the next low tide. Well the water was quite rough and after a couple of hours in the water without results the search shifted to the dry sand again without good results. This could only mean one of two things. One, we did not pass our detectors’ coil over the ring or it was not there, unlikely in this case.

I went back to the area when the water calmed down on several occasions, never giving up hope it was still somewhere and could be found. It happened 51 weeks later when I was in the water chin deep when my detector alerted me of a metal object below its coil. One scoop and you bet, it was the ring sitting all alone at the bottom of my scoop. After a ¼ mile hike back to the parking area, putting on dry shoes I was on my way home to contact the owner.

A search of my records one had the original E-mail from Jennifer. I called her to verify that the ring was her son’s. “YES, I be right over, I live about a mile away” and she was. I handed over the ring with a promise to get a photo of her son with the ring for the Book of Smiles.

It was a really great day for Matt not only did he get his long lost wedding band back but a new addition to his family. It seems Matt was at the hospital waiting on the the arrival of his first son Arthur, aka Arty when I called his mother about finding the ring. Arty was named after his Mom’s Dad who passed when she was 2. And now his happy parents have the wedding band back and a lesson about never giving up to pass onto Arty. What a great way to have a wonderful day! Congratulations!

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lost diamond ring Nantasket Beach Hull MA

  • from Weymouth (Massachusetts, United States)
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Monday early afternoon August 4th 2025.  I get a call from Erin who is very upset.  Understandably so as she just lost her engagement ring on Nantasket beach in Hull, MA.   Not only did her future husband give it to her but its the same ring that her deceased father gave to Erins mother.   She lost it in the sand by her beach chair.  I told her not to move anything and i am on my way.

I got to the beach and parked right near where Erin sent me her location.   The first thing I did was give Erin a hug and said don’t worry I’m gonna find your ring.  She had been crying and was very upset.  She said she placed it on the arm of her chair to put sun block on.  stepped away for a minute or two and when she went back to the chair it was gone.   She searched and went through the sand but couldn’t find it.   She did the right thing she called a ringfinder right away.  After listening to her and her friend I started detecting.  Within 2 minutes I heard that sound I wanted to hear, used my sand scoop flipped the sand out and there it was this absolutely stunning diamond yellow gold ring.

I handed the ring to her and she was jumping for joy with the biggest smile.(you can tell by the photo how over joyed she was)  It was a crowded beach day so all the people around her knew what was happening and all of them were clapping and smiling for Erin.    Her girlfriends were around, wearing all their gold so I gave them all a lecture about wearing your valuable jewelry to the beach  Its a NO NO!!!!

 

 

 

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Lost wedding ring in West Roxbury MA

  • from Weymouth (Massachusetts, United States)
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It was a beautiful Sunday August 3, 2025.  I got a call from Joe who was out walking his dog in a wooded path area near his home.  While on the walk they wandered off the path a little so his dog could find that special spot to do his business.  Wellllllll he disturbed an under ground yellow jacket nest.   Ohhh boy, Joe started waving his arms in every direction trying to ward off the bee attack on both him and his dog.   He ran further up the path and stopped to swat more bees off his dog and himself.  They continues to swat and walk down the path til there were no more bees following them.  When Joe stopped to assess the damage from the bees he noticed his wedding ring was missing.   He traced his steps a couple times with his wife trying to find the ring, but no luck.

When I got to the meeting spot  Joe filled me in on the all that had happened.  He explained he had a few spots he thought it might be.  1. the first encounter with the bees.  2. after running and swinging his arms the first spot he stopped .  3. the second spot he stopped where he swatted the remaining bees off  and  noticed his ring was missing.

We got to spot 1.  Good no bees flying around.  Joe showed me where the bees came at them.  I just started swinging my machine in the area being careful not to hit the ground.   I asked joe if he could give me a perimeter of where the ring may be in.  As he was doing that he must have found the nest as bees started swarming.  Joe started running around swatting away, flailing his arms.  At least I got to see first hand how that ring came off.   I thought to myself heck this ring could be anywhere!!!!  as we continued on the path he showed me all 3 spots.

We were in spot number 3 when I told Joe to go home and wait for my text as this could take awhile. After about an hour of detecting the path and about 2 feet off each side of the path I was heading to number 2 spot.  Praying I don’t have to detect spot 1  for obvious reasons.   I got to spot 2 and after about 1 1/2  hours of total detecting time there it was under a pile of leaves on the side of the pathway.   I was so happy to see that gold band.

I text Joe to meet me at the car.  Him and his very nice wife came together, I handed Joe his ring.  He put it on his finger and smiled big   He said “lots of memories, and while its just a ring its very nice to feel it back on my finger again”.  We laughed at the search and the running from the bees then I was off.  I completely forgot to take a picture of Joe with his ring on.   He was kind enough to send one to me from  his house in front of his wedding portrait.   fun hunt!!!

Joes dog, Joe and I all had a few stings but all is good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cocoa Beach Florida Lost gold wedding ring found by Ring Finder Mike McInroe

  • from Sanford (Florida, United States)
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Andy was visiting friends here in Cocoa Beach, Florida and after a day out fishing in the Atlantic Ocean they pulled their boat into the loading dock area and Andy decided he needed to rinse the fish smell off of his hands. So he laid down on the dock and while rinsing his hands in the warm salt water his gold wedding ring slipped off of his finger and disappeared into the depths below the dock! Of course he was shocked and immediately waded out into the water but soon realized the water was way too deep to even try and attempt a dive. Someone suggested calling a Ring Finder and they contacted Al Zenker, a local member of theringfinders.com but unfortunately he does not do deep water recoveries and he recommended they call me. I met Andy and his friends at the dock and checked the depth to be sure my Blu3 Nemo dive system would allow me to search the bottom effectively and it measured just over 10 and a half feet deep so I was good to go!

I suited up and set a PVC marker pole at the spot where Andy’s ring fell into the water. Visibility was just over a foot and as I descended to the bottom I immediately got a couple of signals. A rusty screw driver, a deep signal and then a sharp clear signal and my hand felt something round and smooth and I slipped it on my index finger. As I ascended to the surface I came out of the water finger first and watched Andy’s face. He was visibly in awe that I had actually found it and was so thankful and grateful to have his lost ring back once again!

Do you need help finding something? Call or text me ASAP at 321-363-6029 and let’s talk!

Mike McInroe…proud member of theringfinders.com

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Moss Landing Sandholdt beach keys lost / found

  • from Monterey (California, United States)
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Lost keys @ Sandholdt beach, Moss Landing, found.   Thanx for the tip.

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