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      A little team work was needed for this one! Faiviola called me with her tail of woe. She and her husband rented Kayaks at La Jolla Shores beach and on their return voyage, their kayak overturned in the surf. Her camera, sunglasses, and engagement ring were all dumped into waist deep water. They managed to recover the camera but the sun glasses and ring eluded their frantic search. They live a good 3 hours north of here and had to go back home minus a treasured token of their love for each other. Faviola decides that she’s not willing to give up quite yet and finds the Ring Fingers site and gives me a call.

      After sending me a Google map and some directions to the loss site, I head down there at the next low tide which was coming up very soon. It was an afternoon low tide and not a very low one but I wanted to get on it right away as that beach is hunted a lot. Three hours later, no luck. I call Faviola back and tell her I’ll return later that night at a minus tide and try again. I arrive at about 1:00 am or so and in the darkness, I can make out a figure walking out on the beach in the area I want to search. I could tell by the movements that, hey, that’s another detectorist out there! I head over to see if he may have found Faviola’s ring. He says no, we chat a little bit and we go our separate ways. I search farther out in the surf and expand the area a bit but still no luck. Earlier, during my day search, I ran across a guy who said he lost a pair of Ray Ban’s in the surf and wanted to know if I’d found any. I hadn’t but told him I would keep an eye out and got his number. At about 4 in the morning my sleep deprived brain remembers these sunglasses and so I head back over to Colin, who is still close by detecting. I ask him if he found any Ray Bands, and he says he found some sunglasses but doesn’t know if they’re Ray Ban’s or not as he didn’t have a light. I flick my light on and see that they’re not Ray Ban’s but then I get to thinking that maybe they might be Faviola’s. I ask where he found them and he pointed to an area that was out of my described search zone so I figure they must not be hers. We talk a while exchange phone numbers and I asked him to contact me if he finds the ring or knows someone who has.

       I head home tired and sleepy and faced with calling Faviola and giving her the bad news. I said that I would keep it on file and talk to club members, and others I know who detect that beach, to be on the look out for this ring. The next day, I get a call from Colin that he thinks he found it! He went back to the area where he found the sunglasses and concentrated a search there and got that sweet sound! I check out his posted photo of the ring he found and it matched the photo I got from Faviola. Outstanding!  My next call with Faviola was much more fun than the previous one!   

       We all arranged to meet the up coming Saturday (today) to reunite Faviola with her ring. It was a pleasure to meet her and her husband and to keep the ring story going. Thank you very much for the reward (which I shared with Colin)  to keep this service going. I also want to give a big thank you to  Colin for his important role in this recovery. It was his honesty, integrity, and determination that made this reunion possible. Who says you can’t make friends on the beach in the middle of the night?!

That’s Colin on the left, Faviola, and yours truly.

Emily from Southampton owned a very special silver ring. It was only silver but one she valued greatly. It had been especially engraved and given to her as a gift from her grandmother. After enjoying a day on the beach she brushed off some sand from her fingers… off slipped the ring! She saw the spot where it sank but her and her friends efforts to try to retreive it only made it sink further. I sympathise with all those who have lost something dear I cant imagine how it must feel to lose something that dear to you.

The location of the lost ring was relatively small – about half the size of a tennis court. The beach was very trashy but nevertheless after one hour I found it. Emily was so pleased to have her ring back and raise money too for the Air Ambulance she held her own Cake Sale at work. Thanks Emily for going out of your way to help.

Received a call from a Mr Kenny Rodman from Southbourne, Dorset. After spending a few hours on the beach Kenny decided to cool off in the sea. He had been enjoying a family day out on the beach with wife Amanda and son Cameron. Whilst only a few feet out he hsad the sensation his wedding band felt loose so clenched his fingers tight. However, leaving the beach almost on all fours he felt the ring come off and slip beneath the waves. Understandibly he returned on several occasions scouring the sand hoping by some miricle it would reveal itself. Alas it didnt. It was his wife Amanda who sort the help of The Ring Finders and I met Kenny the following morning. No sooner than my coil entered the water it gave an almost indistinguishable tone of gold so I decided to scoop it. Luckily I was right as the ring had buried itself some 8″ under due to the breaking waves. Kenny and his wife were extremely pleased at the rings return, Kenny is no longer in the dog house and a generous donation to the Air Ambulance was made by them.

My brother Jeff has always been an ambassador for me and my ring finding hobby. A letter carrier, who works in the same U. S. Post Office district, lost her ring during a golf outing so he gave me her name and phone number this afternoon. I gave her a call right away and within 2 hours the ring was back on her finger.

Chris S. was at a golf outing with the Letter Carriers MSA golf fundraiser at Deer Run Golf Course in Lowell, MI. Before golfing she took her rings off and sealed them in an envelope for safe keeping. After golfing she put her clubs and shoes in her car and took the envelope and proceeded to walk up to the club house. She said she tore the side of the envelope to open it and when she got to the club house she only had one of her rings. Tracing her steps back to her car to look for the ring came up empty.

This was Sunday and it is now Tuesday, I envisioned golfers walking back and forth from their cars to the club house just like Chris did over the past two days and one of them picking up this gem. I went out anyway as I am THERINGFINDER. I talked to the club house pro and ask if anyone turned in the ring, he said “no”, I told him that I would be out around the parking lot grass by the clubhouse with my detector to search for the ring. The grass was not cut during the three days that the ring was lost so that gave me some hope that the ring could be found. I found the ring after passing over it with my Bounty Hunter Time Ranger getting a “nickel” sound in some deeper grass just off the path to the clubhouse. I informed the clubhouse pro the ring was found and then I called Chris and made arrangements to meet her and reunite her with the ring that she and her jeweler designed.

What was a long shot to me turned out to be a hot shot for Chris. I’m very happy for you Chris!

Last week I found a ring at Millennium Park for Joel H. and he mentioned the recovery to a friend who said she lost her diamond wedding ring last year in Silver Lake and wondered if it could be found after giving her my information Sara D. emailed me and said she lost her wedding band and engagement ring after she put the rings in a chest pocket and applied sunscreen while at her parents home at the lake. Sara was playing with her daughter when she leaned over on the dock and noticed the rings were gone. Sara’s husband Jeff ran his hands through the sandy bottom of about a foot deep water and found the wedding band but could not come up with the engagement ring. A year had past and telling the story to her friend Joel H. she discovered The Ring Finders. With one of the hottest days this year I thought it would be a great day for water detecting. My friend Dave B. and I arrived at the lake home and met Sara and proceeded to work our magic. After about 20 minutes of gridding a small area of the beach and lake the ring was found about 10 feet where the wedding band was lost. It always amazes me how rings are found in a different spot than where they were thought to have been lost. I presented the ring to a VERY happy Sara and suggested that she take it to the jewelry store for a good polishing. Thank you for letting me serve you Sara and Jeff, I love this hobby.