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Lost wedding rings found! Eagle Springs Lake, Eagle, Wisconsin

  • from Menomonee Falls (Wisconsin, United States)
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July 4th found Manitowoc, Wisconsin residents, Emily Zucchi and her family, enjoying a swim on Eagle Springs Lake, near Eagle, Wisconsin. As she waded out into the water from shore, Emily suddenly realized her wedding rings were missing from her hand! Everyone began searching but, given all the activity, visibility in the churned-up water was minimal.

I received a phone call from Emily asking for help. She found me on the Ring Finders online directory of metal-detecting specialists. Arrangements were made to meet up with Matt, Emily’s brother-in-law, at the public boat launch later that afternoon. After a 20-minute boat ride we arrived at the location. Other family members were waiting.

Water searches can be challenging. This is because it is often difficult to recall where exactly one was in the lake when the loss occurred. In Emily’s case, a log on the shore acted as a reliable reference point.

I set out four marker buoys to establish the initial search area. Being a popular gathering place, the lake bottom was littered with bottle caps, pull tabs and other metallic debris. It would be a challenge to ferret out the white-gold wedding rings from amongst all the other targets.

Being a weekday, hardly any other boats were on the water. Visibility was amazingly clear, clear enough for Emily’s brother-in-law, Billy, to spot a tiny circular structure in the sand, not far from shore. Imagine his surprise when, reaching into the water, he retrieved Emily’s wedding band!

This discovery meant Emily lost her rings very soon after leaving the shore. Forensically, this raised a question. Did Emily lose her engagement ring before or after the wedding band? Most women wear their wedding rings in a traditional order; the wedding band first, followed by the engagement ring. If this was true in Emily’s case, the engagement ring had to have come off her hand closer to the shore, that is unless she happened to be wearing them in reverse order.

I decided to continue checking the marked area with the goal of ruling it out. As it turned out, the engagement ring had indeed come off after the wedding band. A signal some 20’ away in the search zone proved to be Emily’s precious ring. The love tokens were reunited again at last! Since Emily was not present, Matt, her brother-in-law, did the honors in posing for the photo with both rings in hand.

If you or someone you know has lost a piece of jewelry, recently or long ago, on land, in the water or in the snow, don’t let its story end. Call right away. I’d love to add your smile to the growing list of clients who, like Emily, are so glad they did.

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Lost Wedding Ring Recovered – Okauchee Lake, Nashotah, WI

  • from Menomonee Falls (Wisconsin, United States)
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Nashotah, Wisconsin resident, Joe Judd, was enjoying an evening cigar on his boat dock one evening on Okauchee Lake when a sprig of ash fell onto his pantleg. Instinctively, he brushed the ash off with a flip of his hand but as he did, Joe saw his gold-wedding ring fly off and disappear into the water. He stared in disbelief at the aquatic plants and mud some 5-feet deep where the ring fell. He thought the ring was gone forever.

Later, at a Poker gathering with friends, Joe shared his sad story. That’s when someone mentioned ‘a guy’ in the area who finds lost rings, a guy named Paul. When Joe went online, he discovered my listing on The Ring Finder’s directory of metal-detecting specialists and reached out to me by phone.

Joe wasn’t sure just how deep was the water, let alone the depth of the mud. He guessed about 5-feet. Turns out his estimate was pretty accurate. After donning a search-and-rescue dry suit, I waded out into the icy-cold lake up to my neck and began to probe the mud with my SCUBA-rated XP Deus 2 detector. Joe sat close by on the dock, fascinated by the process.

It didn’t take long to isolate a promising signal, one well in the range of 18k gold. After several scoops of Okauchee-Lake ‘pudding,’ shells, plants and stones, Joe’s wedding ring finally surfaced in my scoop. I set it on the dock and watched Joe’s eyes widen in disbelief! “And that’s how it’s done,” I quipped.

The smile of amazement and joy on Joe’s face tells the rest of the story. And he couldn’t wait to tell his Poker buddies all about it that night.

If you or someone you know has lost a ring, recent, long ago, on land, in snow or in a lake, don’t let its story end. Call me; I love putting smiles on people’s faces!

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Yarmouth Beach Lost Ring Found & Returned Cape Cod, Massachusetts

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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One facet that I love about my hobby is meeting many people. Maurice is one I will never forget. His true feelings for his heritage going back to the Wampanoag Tribe on Cape Cod to his love for a cherished ring that belonged to his grandmother kept me wanting to hear and learn from his words.
What a wonderful story he has about his heritage from the original inhabitants of Cape Cod and their trading, bartering and relationships with other tribes as far away as New York. All this information went along with the fact the larger ring was his grandmother’s who had raised him.

Maurice’s grandmother’s ring along with another ring were dislodged from his little finger while playing in the seaweed with his 5 year old daughter. He searched for the two rings until sunburned.
The next morning he was back searching again. His personality engaged other beach goers to help in the search. The one that helped the most was Sue, the Yarmouth beach’s gate attendant. She remembered The Ring Finder from a ring I returned last year. This lead to our contact. A half an hour later I was ready for the search. Within 15 minutes I had retrieved the smaller band, and anther 5 minutes the second ring was in my scoop. The search and recovery was made easy with Maurice knowing when and where the rings slipped from his finger. The entire beach came alive with cheers and smiles as Maurice removed and showed his grandmother’s, one of a kind, ring.

Maurice and his family left the beach for a Cape Cod lunch and continue enjoying their sea shore adventure form the distant hills of Westfield.

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Lost Wedding Ring Reunited with Owner after Two Months – Brings Hope

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It was a busy day for Big Island Metal Detecting!

Two desperate callers rang within 10 minutes of each other requesting searches for their lost jewelry.

What started out as two recoveries ended with the discovery of a third ring!

Since all searches are time-sensitive, Sylvie searched one beach looking for the lost wedding ring – while Brent searched another beach with his friend for a lost earing.

During his search, Brent found a very large ring under the water with the inscription “Dario Loves Fallon” written on the outside.

ring-1As the ring did not belong to either client, we went to work to track down the owner, a feat we thought would be nearly impossible, especially without a last name to search the World Wide Web!

A Google search turned up only one page that promised a little hope of identifying the owner. A Go Fund Me webpage had the matching names, “…Dario, Fallon’s husband..” The Go Fund Me page was set up to request contributions because Fallon had a life-threatening medical emergency and required immediate surgery. Following the page links and using the new details, it was then possible to then find their Facebook pages – which indeed had photos of them on the Big Island of Hawaii a month earlier!

We were excited and emotional at the prospect of having found the owner – and if this was indeed them, then we knew that such fantastic news would be welcome news due to their current, grave situation. Rings can be so incredibly sentimental and in our experience, it can make such a huge difference to have a ring returned that was thought to be gone forever. We sent a message to them on Facebook and excitedly checked the next morning for a response.dario-palavra

Dario Palavra replied, “I’m so shocked that you guys found my ring. We were just in Hawaii in August!.It is my wedding ring – my wife has a matching ring. I figured it was long gone. I thought I lost it in the deep water since I love to swim. I’m so happy that you guys found it – since we got back from Hawaii we been dealing with a lot of health problems with my wife – I almost lost her – she had less than 10% chance of living and now when you tell me you found our wedding ring, that is amazing. Once I get it back it is going to be glued to my finger!!!”

We express mailed the ring to Dario, and soon afterwards got a photo of him wearing the ring he thought he would never see again!

If you’re interested further in this story – or would like to read about Fallon’s Go-Fund-Me page, go to :

https://www.gofundme.com/GoTeamFallon

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Lost Ring Found Waikoloa Beach Area, Hawaii – Speedy Recovery

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This was a great recovery for several reasons!

First, it marked the first ring recovery we’ve done since moving to the Big Island of Hawaii and joining Ring Finders three months ago.

We were so happy to help Pedro and Martyna from Poland find her lost engagement ring!

Second, this recovery set a new personal speed benchmark for finding lost rings!

Martyna had put the ring on a hat to shoot at sunset in memory of their one-year engagement at the same spot. Unfortunately the ring fell off the hat the moment a wave swept up and it was gone…!

They spent the evening looking for the ring with their fingers in the sand, and by the time they’d called us and we could make the hour’s drive to their location out at Anaeho’omalu Beach, Waikoloa, it was noon. Martyna told us she’d spent the night in tears.

Arriving on the beach, I was a little worried to see Pedro and Martyna’s friends – about six of them – all on their hands and knees raking fingers thru the sand and digging piles of sand here and there. Fortunately, they showed me the exact spot she’d lost the ring. I asked everyone to stand back and switched on our Excalibur II metal detector. Two, then three sweeps of the coil and, “HELLO!” I hear the growling lowish tone of platinum. 5 seconds… I asked Sylvie to switch on the GoPro but by the time she’d turned the power on, the ring was in the scoop and Martyna was hugging, Pedro, me, Sylvie and all her friends! Total search and recovery time was about 10 seconds! I wish all recoveries were that straight-forward – for everyone’s sake!

Brent and Sylvie’s Ring Recovery Feedback:

Pedro and Martyna did a few important ring-recovery steps right at the beginning which helped the speed of our recovery. We were fortunate that the waves were small with no rip along the beach. They were lucky enough to know exactly where they’d dropped the ring, so made a note of that exact location. They also marked the time – which gave us a chance to check tide levels and approximate wave height when they’d lost their ring.  On the challenges-side, having their friends dig around seems natural, especially if one knows the locale, but…it can dislodge a ring’s precarious place in the sand and allow it to be swept out with the waves. Fingers-in-the-sand-technique has about a 2% chance of finding anything… Also the chances of recovery get smaller and smaller quickly with passing time. By the time we got out to the site, 18 hours had passed. Call as soon as possible and we’ll be there as soon as available! Again, so happy for small waves and good “X-marks the Spot” info!

So happy Pedro and Martyna are still rejoicing!

 

 

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I Lost My Ring, How To Find A Lost Ring

  • from Fredericton (New Brunswick, Canada)
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If you are reading this, then your solution is at hand.

Most people, after losing something very precious, valuable or important to them, will Google the two title phrases. Then some think about renting a metal detector and trying to find it themselves. While that is an option, it is not the best or most efficient one.  Let me explain with a little story.

34 years ago, when I bought my first metal detector, I planned to find treasure and get rich. So out to my backyard I went and swung that detector from morning until bed. After 2 days of searching every square inch, and digging every beep, I’d found hundreds of metal bits, and $1.32.

Later in the summer, a family friend was over for dinner and, excited to see my detector in action, threw his chunky college ring into the grass. I attacked the area, proud to show off its capabilities. After 2 hrs of me searching, he took pity on me, walked over and picked his ring out of the very area I’d been repeatedly searching over.

34 yrs later, I’ve upgraded and know my equipment, and how to search properly…and I rarely miss the rings/targets anymore. I have many stories of happy people who are looking, once again, at the very item they thought was lost forever. All because they called or contacted me and let me do what I do best.

Let me help you be reunited with your lost item.

Thanks,  Steve

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