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A lady was hosting a Birthday Party for her daughter in the back yard.After the Party she realized that she had lost her ring, she called the Kelowna Metal Detectors and I responded within 10 minutes, I found the a few coins that I gave to the kids, then within 20 minutes I retrieved her Ring.

Joe had checked the dive shops for assistance, but no one could help him. As President of the Kelowna Metal Detectors, Joe contacted me for help, I responded to Joe and met him at his campsite on Okanagan Lake where he showed me approximately where the ring was lost as he was throwing a ball with the kids. I told him I would return the next day with my detecting gear and attempt to find the ring. The next morning at 7am I entered the water and proceeded to grid the area. It soon became apparent that the that the soft muddy bottom was heavily littered with metal garbage. After 4 hrs I still had not located the ring, I decided that I would quit for the day and return with Joe  for the specific lost location. It was 3 days later when we returned with Joe feeling badly all week. I entered the water to once again continue the search. After another 2 hours of sifting through the many pieces of junk metal, I peered down into my scoop after retrieving a solid signal and there it was…..a mans white gold ring surounded by 24 diamonds! I was out in the water and let out a loud “yahoo” but Joe was fast asleep on the beach. Hurridlay I went ashore and woke him up with the good news and we both danced around with delight. On the way home Joe stopped in at the local store and as he entered the store the background music being played was his wedding music. How appropriate it brought tears to Joe`s eyes.

David was operating an excavator loading a dump truck on a construction site. He stepped off the excavator to move the truck and to shake his hands of mud and dirt. During this process, he heard a ping and noticed that his wedding band was missing. He searched but was unable to locate it. He moved the dump truck and excavator and called his workmate over to assist him. The workmate went home for a metal detector, and together they searched the site for a few hours but were still not able to find the ring. He returned in the evening with his wife, and they both did a visual search of the site without finding it.

At 8:30 the next morning, he phoned the Kelowna Metal Detectors Club contact number and asked for assistance. I arrived at the site at 9:15 a.m., and asked David to show me exactly where and what happened. The location he showed me had been traveled over with the dump truck and was a muddy mess. He had pretty well given up on finding the ring and expected it to finish up in the landfill on the housing site. He explained that he had been married only 5 weeks and that the ring was a band of yellow gold and a band of white gold that his wife insisted he wear to work. We moved the dump truck, and I set up my Detector and started to work in a grid system. On the second pass, I got a strong signal in 6 inches of oozing mud. Reaching down I felt and recovered the metal rings. I walked over to the dump truck, and David asked me what the problem was. I told him that I had finished, and he responded, “No, don’t quit already!” I showed him the band, and he was ecstatic!

Lisa picked a good day to play in the backyard with her dog. It had just snowed a good 10 inches in Kelowna. After 10 minutes of running around the yard, she noticed that her ½-carat diamond engagement ring was missing. Lisa and her husband spent 2 hours searching for it, to no avail. She called the Kelowna Metal Detectors Club contact number, and I responded within 10 minutes conducting a search of the area. It was a new home with a small yard, so it didn’t take too long before my Tesoro Silver Sabre µMax found the ring. It made Lisa a happy lady.

After spending the day enjoying the Beach in Kelowna, Diana Helm realized she had lost her wedding band, a 14k White Gold Band with 3 Sapphires. I went the next morning and spent 3 hours gridding the area in the water with no success, I did find 2 rings but not the target that we wanted. I decided the ring was not in the water, I  checked the dry sand, and within 5 minutes I located the ring and returned it to a happy Helms family.