Diamond Ring Lost from Moving Vehicle in Monmouth, IL…Found
A couple of weeks ago I received a call for a ring search just over an hour from my home. Unfortunately, due to my schedule I was unable to attempt a locate of the ring until this past weekend. The ring was lost along a country gravel road near Monmouth, IL. Monica, the owner of the ring, was traveling down the road at approximately 40 MPH when she made a waving gesture out the window and off went her ring off into the ditch full of knee high grass. Fortunately, Monica immediately identified a nearby landmark so that she could recall the approximate area of the loss.
I met Monica’s husband at the location on Sunday morning and I was shown the most likely stretch of ditch that the ring may have landed. You can see from my photo that the location was about 50 yards long from where I was standing to my car in the distance. The grass was just waiting to be searched.

The grass was too tall for my larger coils, so I used my 6″ sniper coil on my Equinox 800 so that I could get easily get deep into the grass. I combed the roadway edge first, but came up empty. I worked my way into the ditch and searched completely from road edge to fence line. Eventually, I got a solid tone and a 15 on my VDI. I grabbed my Garrett carrot and pinpointed the target deep in the grass. As I moved the grass blades out of the way, the bright sun shined down on the ring and it reflected back at me. I picked it up and sure enough it was just like the one in a picture that Monica had sent to me.

Needless to say, I was glad to have found Monica’s ring. It is a beautiful ring and it was truly a memorable search that I won’t soon forget. I sent a text to Monica with only pictures of her ring. I immediately received a call from her and was she very grateful for this recovery. It was my pleasure to return her ring.













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Samit called about a beautiful pendant his daughter had lost, just minutes before, when when she noticed her chain had broken. He was very concerned, there were storms all around, the tide was rising, and they were getting ready to head home after a nice day at the beach. I was at a family party, but arranged to meet him in 45 minutes. Once I arrived he showed me the exact area she was in when she noticed her broken chain, and missing pendant. I searched that area pretty quickly with no luck. Samit then showed me the small area in the water where it could have possibly fallen, and I started in the deepest area, working small tight sweeps. About 5 paths up the hill I got a real nice faint signal, and it sounded pretty promising. I dug one DEEP hole hoping to have it in the first scoop. Sure enough, I dumped it out, kicked away some sand, and the bright red ruby was poking out. The entire family was shocked I was able to find it. Luckily it stayed very close to the spot it fell. Another happy ending. 

