Platinum Ring lost playing Volleyball … Newport Beach, CA.
Friday .. January 30, 2015
Peter is on vacation with his wife and two small children visiting friends here in Newport Beach. Yesterday afternoon he put his platinum wedding ring in a shirt pocket with his cell phone and closed it with a zipper. Later his wife asked him for the cell phone and he gave it to her forgetting to close the zipper. They walked over to the volleyball court about 150 yards away to have a serious game of volley ball. It wasn’t till a couple hours later that Peter remembered his ring and when he checked his pocket the zipper was open. The ring was not there. He and his friends searched into the night with no success. Returning to the house, he and his friends went to the internet searching for a metal detector to rent. Several calls and they were directed to check out TheRingFinders.com. He called this morning and I was able to meet him and his friends within an hour.
Peter told me all that had happened prior to realizing he had lost his ring. I did not want to think about the 150 yards of sand where he first unzipped his pocket to pull out his cell phone. He had thought enough to bring his wife’s ring, which was a match to his lost ring. I took a sample ID reading with my detector and it gave me A 12-23 reading. That will save me a little time, because that number should be what I’m looking for. Platinum is heavy and it may have stayed in his unzipped pocket till he got more active playing volleyball. I decided to start right under the volleyball net, because I had read somewhere on one of the metal detecting forums that most losses occur at the net ( I don’t always believe everything I read on the internet, but I could have started anywhere). Another good guess. I went 6 or 8 feet and there was a good signal in my earphones and the right ID number 12-24. Before scooping the target I called Peter over and showed him the numbers that showed up on my CTX 3030 screen. It was Peter’s ring and he and his friends all celebrated the find. It is not unusual to find a ring in the first few minutes, but this was a possible 2 or 3 hour search. We spent a little time to show his son how the metal detector works. His son kept burying the ring and I would locate it so he could hear the sound. Then his son would dig the ring. It was hard to tell Peter’s son that we couldn’t play hide and find the ring all day. Another ring returned, helping to make their vacation one to remember.
How many people have been given a very special gift only to loose it shortly after receiving it? Jared got a unique gift from his mother for Christmas–a silver pendant– and lost it two days later while playing soccer! He is a good friend of mine and knows that I enjoy helping people find their lost rings and things. And the field where he lost his pendant is just across the street from where we live so I figured in my spare time I could begin a grid search of the 70X50 yard field. So early the next evening I set up my Whites DFX in Coin and Jewelry mode and started down the middle of the field. And as it was a very recent drop and the pendant being silver I figured it would give a loud signal and be just under the grass. Sure enough on my 5th pass down center field, there hidden in the grass was Jared’s pendant! So glad to help out and thanks Jared for the reward!
Jason called me Saturday evening from home in Corona, Calif. asking if I could help him. His friend had told him about TheRingFinders. He noticed his wedding ring missing after six hours of doing chores around his large property. Jason had spent a day and a half retracing all his activities in search of his wedding band. He lives on a large piece of property and had been doing a lot of work in almost every part of his yard. Almost everything he had been doing could have caused his ring to slip from his finger. He was taking down Christmas lighting decorations from his two story house, fences and trees. Dealing with hundreds of feet of cords coiling them up then putting them in storage boxes. He also took the Christmas tree from the house cutting off all the limbs to put them in large trash containers. On top of all that work he spend time cleaning his pool. All these activities were done without gloves and all these activities were the type of movements that would cause a ring to slip off a finger.
I found a white gold wedding band today for a young fella named Austin. He lost it while mowing roadside ditches this summer. When he parked the tractor he noticed his wedding ring was gone.
