Wedding Ring found at Gillison Beach in Wilmette, Il
Jo Ann was brought out to Atlantic Beach for a family photo shoot and to spend time with her family. Her great grand kids had gathered sand & fiddler crabs in a bucket. Jo Ann put her hand into the bucket of sand, water & crabs when one of her rings slipped off into the bucket. It wasn’t until after the bucket was dumped back into the oncoming surf that it was discovered, one of her rings was missing. A friend and I were just walking onto the beach to help remove some of the metal garbage laying under the sand when a family member approached us and told us of the situation. After a few passes, the ring was found in the sand under the shallow water. It took about 5 minutes. We walked up to where they were sitting and none of them had realized we had found her ring. They started to thank us for searching thinking were didn’t find the ring when we presented the ring. They were very thankful but on a tight schedule so we made the return as brief as possible and we went back to cleaning the beach.
Corey and his family were spending a day at the beach. He put his wedding ring in his pocket for safe keeping, only to discover later that his pocket had a hole in it and the ring was gone! This wasn’t the first wedding ring he’s lost, so, he had to endure another tongue lashing from his wife. a couple of days later, Corey searched online, found TheRingFinders.com website, got my contact information, and gave me a call. We met at the beach about 45 minutes later where he showed me the search area in the dry sand where they were camped last Saturday. I started a grid in the most likely spot and expanded out from there. In about 15 minutes or so, Corey was going to head up to his car, but, at that moment, I got a nice “14” pull tab sound on my Equinox, and out came Corey’s ring from the sand. A happy Corey now gets to go home and move his belongings out of the dog’s house and back in the family’s house! A pleasure to meet you Corey and thank you for the reward.
John & Sophie arrived at their North Topsail, NC beach house one day prior for a family vacation with great views and weather. John had taken his wedding band of many years off to swim in the ocean. The beach chairs were moved a few times because of the incoming tide and were eventually folded up and returned to the house. John called me later that afternoon the ask if I could be of assistance. Upon arrival John showed me the boundaries for my search. There were very little signs of metal in the sand and at one point, I wondered if I had the correct search settings. After a crusty penny, my next signal was a strong soda tab signal. This time it was just the opposite! John’s white gold wedding band was peaking up from the sand after my first try to brush the sand away from the target. If I remember correctly, I think John said “well how about that!” John told the neighbors that he didn’t need to sleep outside tonight!
Kelly started to send me vague questions about my service and what was required from her. It was a very busy day for me and I also had plans to search for a lost ring the next morning. Once she gave more details about where she had lost an heirloom gold diamond ring and also a second gold aquamarine ring from her father, I was started to worry as they were very close to a busy section of beach. I had made plans to sacrifice some sleep to arrive at Atlantic Beach a few hours before heading to my morning appointment in New Bern, NC. As I knew my search time was short, I “phoned a friend” to assist with the hunt. Justin and I started at the area Kelly had marked very well with pictures, illustrations and landmarks. Justin began hunting the upper section of the recently replenished beach that was full of small pieces of aluminum as I worked from the high tide line. It only took about 30 minutes until Justin was able to winkle out Kelly’s two beautiful rings! Kelly informed us that she worked in New Bern so we still had time to hand deliver her recently found rings before heading to my previous planned location.
I received a call from Josh’s wife and she seemed flustered that her husband’s very new ring was missing after a day at the beach. I was told the ring was put away and during the transport of the beach equipment from the shores back to the vacation house the ring fell out. Josh later mentioned to me he had already planned to purchase a metal detector to try is luck. The path their wagon traveled was very well staked out and this was a huge help in finding Josh’s ring within seconds. The small group that tried to find his ring was surprised how quickly the ring sank into the soft dry sand. I was very happy to return Josh’s beautiful white gold wedding band and hope they can resume a joyful vacation at Emerald Isle, NC
Patrick and his wife were getting ready to tube down the Cannon River in Minnesota, while getting on the tube, Patrick saw his wedding band come off his hand and he tried his best to grab it. The ring disappeared into the river, about waist deep with a very rocky bottom. He tried to find it, and just couldn’t get it. He searched for help on the internet and found theringfinders.com – I met him down by the river and decided that scuba would be the best as the bottom was full of huge rocks and there is no way I could use a scoop to try and recover any signals. I found a few coins and some garbage as usual, though it only took about 15 – 20 minutes and that nice tone rang in my ears. I knew it was the ring.
Congrats Patrick, truly glad I could help!
Darrin
Nathan was body surfing at Mission beach when he realized that he was wearing his wedding ring, not something he normally does. In checking the ring to see how tight it was fitting, it came right off and dropped into waist deep surf. With our surf, it will disappear in a second, so, no way to spot it. A sad Nathan now had to go confess to the wife that his wedding band is gone. His wife wasn’t satisfied with accepting that fate, so, she found TheRingFinders.com on a search and contacted me for help. The ring was lost at a +4 foot tide, so, a minus .7 tide at 5:14 am was just the ticket for this search. Nathan met me at 3:15 am and showed me the search area. He even came out in the surf and helped me keep on my grid pattern. This section of beach was real clean. An hour and half later, I had only found 3 non-ferrous targets, 2 pull tabs and a junk ring. At that point I had changed direction on my grid and now went north-south instead of my earlier east-west. Second pass doing this in ankle deep or less water, and another 16 pull tab reading on my Equinox. Only this time, it looked this was going to be
Nathan’s ring. I called him over, and by the light of his flashlight, he saw it was indeed his ring. He now would have a much happier conversation with his wife when he got home. Next month is their 2nd wedding anniversary, so, this recovery will help the ring story continue into chapter 3. A pleasure to meet you Nathan, and thank you for the reward.
I was out detecting with a buddy, when a guy named Ian rides his bike up to me and asks if I could possibly search for his wife’s lost wedding band at Cardiff State Beach. I said I’d be happy to do it and that to let me know when we could meet there and conduct the search. He said it would take him a bit to bike there and would text me when he was available. I got the text, actually found a parking spot, and met him at the location out on a busy beach. Ian and his wife were here visiting from a sweltering Tucson, AZ and were enjoying the beach yesterday, when while applying skin lotion. the ring slipped off into the dry sand and vanished. They
sifted with fingers for several hours, but, no luck. Looking for a small gold ring, the signal can be pretty low on the scale and weak as well. I figured I’d be digging foil for a while, but, actually didn’t get many signals and ended up expanding the search area a bit more than we thought we would have to. I finally got a weak, but, repeatable 7 on my Equinox and after a couple of scoops, had the ring in my hand. A happy Ian can now go back and surprise his wife of 15 years with her ring….oh, and it’s her birthday today! Happy Birthday and ring reunion! A pleasure to meet you Ian and thank you for the reward.