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Jeanne and her family were on vacation at her Dad’s cabin in Northwest Iowa. While on a canoe outing, her Dad, John was getting out of the canoe and felt his ring slip off his finger. The family tried to locate the ring to no avail. Jeanne contacted me through the ring finders website and explained the situation. The ring was lost in approx. 3 feet of water, the water has no visibility and a very rocky bottom. I drove down to Iowa and met with john, he showed me the area and scuba seemed to be the best method for recovery. I dawned my gear and walked into the water, the very first hit I got on my metal detector was his ring. I came up out of the water and one of John’s neighbors was standing on the dock. She asked me if rings could be found that have been lost for a couple years? I said sure, I’ve recovered rings that have been in the water for decades (maybe even a century). She informed me that her nieces husband lost his wedding ring a couple years back by their dock just about 100 yards away from John’s dock. I said OK, I’ll meet you over there. I swam over and she showed me the spot, I started my search and found an old rusty can. The next hit on my detector was a big old wedding ring. What a day, 2 lost rings and some very happy people – doesn’t get much better than that! 🙂

Congrats John and your neighbors niece & husband (Didn’t get their names)

Darrin ~

Brandon was playing in the shallow surf when the special ring he was wearing, came off an disappeared into the sandy bottom. This nugget ring with 3 diamonds had belonged to his wife’s father, so, it was an irreplaceable family heirloom. Being familiar with that section of beach, and going by Brandon’s directions, I headed there the next low tide which was early morning the next day. After a half hour and not a single signal (good or bad!) I was beginning to wonder if this beach had been hammered by other metal detectorists the previous day at this popular section of PB . I continued on and started to find a few coins which encouraged me a bit. At about an hour and a half, I found the ring about 10″ deep in the wet sand. Yes! A pleasure to meet you Brandon and thank you for the reward.

Chad and family were enjoying the beach at Warren Dunes when his gold wedding band disappeared in the sand.  Looking for the ring was not successful, and they had to go back home to the Chicago area.  They looked up the Ringfinders and sent me an e-mail late on Tuesday night asking if I could help him find the ring.  I had commitments for Wednesday morning and all day Thursday, but leaving the ring on the beach for two more days was risky, considering all the metal detectors that are out there every day.  My Ringfinder partner, Gregg Larabel, called Chad on Wednesday morning while I was tied up and had Chad send us a map of the beach pinpointing where he lost his ring.  Gregg and I agreed to go hunt for the ring late on Wednesday and luckily the beach was not too crowded at that time of day.  Because Chad’s map was so accurate, I found the ring in 15 minutes about 10 ft from the water line.  We called Chad with the good news and dropped his ring in the mail the next day.   Finding a ring always puts smiles on our faces!