Lost Gold Ring Recovered in Zephyrhills Florida
Item recovered June 19, 2025.
Jennifer called me about a gold ring she had lost while in her pool. The ring was her father’s wedding ring and it is slightly too large for her finger. It has come off before and they have always been able to find it, until this time.
She was sure it had to be somewhere in her back yard. While she didn’t feel it come off her hand, she knew she had it on when they got into the pool and she noticed it was missing when they got out. They had searched inside the above-ground pool thoroughly they were confident it wasn’t there. They had also walked around the pool visually searching and couldn’t see it. Jennifer went even further and ordered a metal detector from Amazon. She tried searching and while it was making noises, she wasn’t able to distinguish what those noises meant, but more importantly, she wasn’t able to locate the ring.
I met up with Jennifer at her house later that day. She had a matching ring (her mom’s wedding ring) that was slightly smaller that I was able to scan for a reference. I was surprised to see a vdi of an 82 on my Deus 2. Normally the gold rings I find are in the range of 60-70.
I noticed there was quite a bit of interference with my detector in their back yard and needed to lower the sensitivity to quiet the machine. I knew if the ring was in the yard, it would be on top of the soil and it wouldn’t need the machine to be searching deep.
All set – I started my way around the pool, searching 10-15 feet from the edge of the pool as being the most likely place it would have flown. About 2/3 of the way around the pool there was a very nice sound with a vdi of 85. Normally this would be a zinc penny range, but because I knew the missing ring would be higher, I had a good feeling this would be the ring I was searching for. Sure enough, it was the missing ring hiding below the grass!
