Received a phone call met up with A great family that had lost their earring at Pocmo Beach Nantucket! Packed up the gear and off I went! The wind blew her hat off, and the string caught the earring it disappeared into the sand. After a half hour of searching, we found it! Such a great feeling seeing the smilies on everyone!
While taking the dog out and engaging in the evening ritual of playing ball with his dog, Tom suddenly felt his class ring fly off. Despite tracking the direction and sound as it rolled across his driveway, a cursory search revealed no ring. The next morning out came the rake, still no luck. Then a metal detector rental which resulted in nothing but more frustration, beeps and no luck. Then the call came “call Mark for it’s only lost until you call!” The story continues as the ring is back on his finger. Equipment and “know how” make all the difference.
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Everyone watching immediately celebrated the successful recovery.
Moments like this remind me why I love helping families throughout South Jersey.
Every recovery is different. Experience, proper equipment, and an organized search greatly improve the chances of success.
As a member of The Ring Finders since 2016, I have successfully recovered hundreds of lost valuables across South Jersey beaches.
If you lose a wedding ring, engagement ring, necklace, bracelet, watch, or other valuable item, avoid unnecessary searching.
Large search parties often move valuable items deeper into the sand.
Mark the location if possible.
Take photos of the area.
Call immediately for the best recovery opportunity.
Ring Finders South Jersey proudly serves Stone Harbor, Avalon, Sea Isle City, Ocean City, Wildwood Crest, Cape May, and surrounding shore towns.
If you lose a ring in the sand, ocean, park, yard, or shallow water, help is only a phone call away.
Nothing compares to returning a treasured wedding band to its rightful owner.
Customer Review by Matt!
“Called John at 2:30pm at the beach in Stone Harbor the day after my brother-in-law lost his wedding ring in the ocean. John was here in 20 minutes. Thirty minutes later, after a lot of walking back and forth in the water, he FOUND IT!!!! Amazing, highly recommended. He is also a great guy!”
🚨 THE IMPOSSIBLE DOUBLE RECOVERY AT Range Pond State Park! 🚨
Cheryl, Gary, and I love our jobs—we truly have the best job in the world. 🌊
It all started on July 8th when I received a phone call from Vanessa, a Ranger at Range Pond State Park in Poland, Maine … 📞
🔑 A Tourist Stranded & A Rental Car Stuck
The day before, a tourist from Texas had been enjoying the beautiful, serene lake while floating around on an inner-tube style flotation device. 🏖️
Suddenly, disaster struck. His rental car key fob and keys slipped out of his swim trunk pocket and vanished into the water! 😭
To make matters worse:
The Search Area: Vanessa warned me the area he had been swimming in was massive.
🗺️The Stakes: The rental car was still stranded at the park because that was the only set of keys the agency had given him! 🚗🔒
I told Vanessa I would be there as soon as I could pack my gear and drive the one hour to the park. I immediately called Gary Hill for backup, and his response was instant: “On my way, I’ll meet you there!” 🏎️💨
💍 The Plot Thickens: A Second Missing Treasure
When I arrived, the booth attendant was expecting me. She told me Gary had just arrived, but then she dropped a bombshell question:
“Were you told that a few weeks ago, someone lost their silver engagement ring in the lake?” 😮
I had no idea! She told me the park staff still had the owner’s contact info. If we found it, they could return it.I smiled and thought, “Alright then, let’s go find a key fob and an engagement ring. A two-for-one type of deal!” 🎯✨
🗺️ The Grid: Searching a “Football Field” in deep water
When we met up with Vanessa down by the shore, we realized the true scale of the challenge. The search area was larger than a football field! 🏈
Covering an area that size on dry land is tough enough, but doing it in water feels impossible. We knew we would need a miracle to find either item, let alone both. Fortunately, the water was extremely clear with a beautiful sandy bottom, and the lake was nice and warm. ☀️🏊♂️
Because a large group of local city summer camp kids was playing near the tourist’s entry point, we had to adjust our boundaries. We used a large tree and a water fountain up on the shore as our east and west markers:
I started out deep near the buoys. 🦺
Gary started mid-water, working eastward slightly to my right.
We began making our grid passes. No keys or engagement ring on the first pass, but the lake was already giving up secrets!
I found a small sterling silver ring with CZ stones, while Gary dug up coins and typical beach trash like pull tabs and foil.🗑️
After a few more passes, I found another ring—this one stainless steel—along with an earring and more coins.
Gary was finding plenty of coins, but no jewelry yet. 🪙
💥 The Miracle Double-Strike!
We had been in the water for about 45 minutes and were almost finished with our first section. As I swung my detector, something about 7 to 8 feet ahead caught my eye. 👀
Amidst the stark white sand, there was a strange black object resting on the bottom. A tree branch? Bark? Trash? 🪵
I kept swinging my coil and advanced toward it. The moment the coil passed over the object, my machine screamed! 🔊
I leaned over in the stomach-deep water to get a closer look. I squinted through the ripples, and my heart stopped—IT WAS THE KEY FOB AND KEYS! Are you kidding me?! 😭🙌
I scooped them up, held them high in the air, and yelled over to Cheryl and Gary. Gary rushed over, grinning from ear to ear as I handed them to him. 🔑🎉
We stood there celebrating for a moment. As we were about to turn and leave the spot, I gave my detector one last casual swing over the exact same area.
BEEP! 🚨
Another target—less than a foot away! I plunged my scoop into the sand, lifted it, and let the white sand sift through the holes, in the scoop. Staring up at me from the bottom of the scoop was a beautiful engagement ring! 💍✨
Seriously!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I hadn’t even taken a single step forward, and I pulled the lost engagement ring from the depths of the lake! I checked inside the band, saw the “925” stamp, and knew instantly it was the sterling silver ring lost weeks prior.
Talk about being lucky! The two missing items had ended up less than a foot apart in a massive lake. What are the absolute odds of that? As the saying goes, “Better lucky than good!” 🍀🍀
💌 Grateful Rangers & Happy Owners
Once out of the water, we met up with Vanessa and another ranger named Walter. I actually met Walter the previous year when I recovered a gold ring at the same park!
Walter is a massive fan of The Ring Finders of Maine Facebook page and keeps my business card right in his wallet. He promised us that whenever anyone reports a lost item to the park staff, we will be the very first phone call. Thank you, Walter! 🪪🤝
Vanessa took the recovered treasures straight to the front office to notify the incredibly relieved owners. Later that day, she sent me this wonderful message:
“Thank you so much for coming so promptly. They picked up their keys this afternoon and were very happy and incredibly thankful for your service. It is a great service you provide. So… Thank you and Gary for all you do.” 🥹❤️
Remember: If it matters to you, it matters to us. 🤝⚓
Ryan called me on July 22nd and asked if I would travel from Nashville to his home Clarksville TN to look for his platinum wedding band. He lost it three months ago in his back yard when he was throwing an apple over the back fence for the local deer to eat. Ryan did what many people do and ordered a metal detector online and tried finding his ring with it. He did find some small metal objects buried in his yard, but was unable to locate his ring. I was able to find Ryan’s ring for him in about an hour. Both he and his wife were very happy and excited that Ryan could get the elusive ring back on his finger. Being able to reunite someone with something that is very sentimental to them when they had all but given up hope on ever seeing it again is very rewarding and I enjoy it immensely.
7/24/26
Got a message from a lady who was tending her domestic ducks when she felt her wedding ring fall off. She and her husband looked for a couple weeks, by eye, raking and using a metal detector. Much to their surprise and frustration, couldn’t find it.
So, I went right over after work, she showed me the area and I got started. There were lots of signals in the ground to make it challenging. There also was a fair amount of mud and wood chips that could easily hide a ring, which is why they hadn’t found it.
After investigating a few so-so signals, I got a great gold tone that was double beeping. I showed her the spot, she pushed the shovel in and turned the clump over. There it was about 2” down in the soft soil!
The pressure was on me on this search, because they had just bought a house and were going to be moving out of the rental house in a few days. Now they won’t have to worry about moving without her ring!
I received a call from Kim after her husband Sal dropped his wedding ring between the planks on the foot bridge into Boothbay Harbor. I was able to quickly locate the ring in 6 feet of water and ensure this newly married couple who were on their honeymoon would return home with only good memories. This was my second recovery at this very same location, having located a diamond and onyx ring a year or two ago that was lost under identical circumstances.
On Thursday 23rd I received a call from Jun. He asked me if I could possibly located a 14k gold stud earring that he had lost 3 days ago in his front yard. I told him that earrings can be very difficult to detect because there isn’t very much metal to detect, but I told him that I would be willing to give it a shot. My hopes went way up when he told me that he knew when and how it came out! Turns out he was near a fruit tree and had 2 bees buzzing near his ear and as he ran away he swatted at the bees he hit his ear and knocked out his earring! Luckily when I arrived I asked him if it was from a set and if he had a matching earring to it. He said that he did! So I scanned the sister stud (35) and the sister keeper (32). Plus he knew almost exactly where he was when it all happened! So I did a small slow grid search of the area. Within a few minutes I got a slight whisper of a 35 on my DĒUS II metal detector! So I searched the grass with my pinpointer and finally found the big 14k gold stud!! Now to find the keeper!! It didn’t take long to search around the area where the earring was to hear a whisper of a 32! In short order we had the missing keeper piece too!!
My First successful earring recovery!!!
Success!!
Another smile for the book!!!
Half the Mission Accomplished. – Shout out to @njringfinder for the lead on this one.
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Erin showed us the areas she had been throughout the day and helped narrow down the most likely search location.
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