#MetalDetectingMaine Tag | The Ring Finders

🌊 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂: 𝐀 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐝𝐞!

On August 4th at 6:26 PM, my phone rang. It was Jeremy, and he was in a complete panic. 📞

Earlier that afternoon, Jeremy was enjoying a picture-perfect summer day at Kinney Shores right here in Saco, Maine. He was soaking up the sun and decided to cool off with a swim in the warm Atlantic Ocean… OK, let’s be real, maybe not that warm. 😉

While out braving the freezing Atlantic waters (is that better? 😂), the unthinkable happened. Jeremy felt his Tungsten wedding ring slip right off his finger, sinking instantly into the shifting sands of the ocean floor.
Panic set in. He immediately began frantically searching the bottom, but the crashing waves made visibility absolutely zero. 🌊❌

But then, Jeremy did something brilliant. He kept his wits about him. He 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐙𝐄 dead in his tracks right where the ring dropped. He looked straight back toward the beach and locked his eyes onto a specific house sitting on the shoreline. A visual marker. It was a legendary decision that would change everything. 🎯

Jeremy kept fighting the elements to find it, but between the pounding surf and a rapidly incoming high tide, the ocean won round one. He was forced to abandon the search and make the long, heavy-hearted drive back home to New Hampshire for work the next morning. 😔🚙

Once he got home, Jeremy refused to give up hope. He frantically searched the internet for a solution and discovered 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 and our 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬.
Recognizing this was a race against time and shifting ocean currents, he immediately placed that fateful call to me. 📞✨

With Jeremy still on the phone anxiously waiting, I instantly pulled up the local Saco tide chart. 📊⏱️

The clock was ticking. High tide had peaked about 2.5 hours ago. Low tide was just over 3.5 hours away. That meant one thing: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭. 🌊📉

Jeremy had dropped the ring right at the mid-tide cycle. With the water receding by the minute, that tungsten wedding band would soon be exposed on wet sand instead of buried deep under breaking waves. It was the perfect window of opportunity.
I told Jeremy: ” 𝐼’𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐼’𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡.” 🚗💨

The game plan? Use Jeremy’s incredible foresight. I was going to execute a flawless, tight grid search covering the entire width of that shoreline house he had locked his eyes on when the ring fell off. 🗺️🔍

I quickly loaded my gear into The Ring Finder Mobile and made the quick 10-minute drive down to Kinney Shores. Finding a parking spot right next to the beach access path during a busy Maine summer is usually a miracle in itself, but Lady Luck was on our side and I managed to snag a spot immediately! 🍀🚙
Stepping onto the beach, I checked the time: 𝟔:𝟓𝟗 𝐏𝐌.⏱️

Looking out at the water, I calculated that if the ring wasn’t already sitting under the newly exposed sand, it would be very shortly. Thanks to technology, Jeremy had texted me a photo of the exact shoreline house he had locked his eyes on. I spotted it instantly, set up my north and south grid search boundaries, and got to work.
The metal detector started humming. At first, I dug up the usual beach suspects: a few pieces of trash, a heavy fishing sinker, and a couple of stray coins. 🎣🪙

The search area wasn’t huge, but I was moving fast and soon found myself standing right at the wet, crashing waterline. I had been swinging my detector for 𝟑𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 without a single sign of tungsten. ⏳🌊

I reached a critical crossroads. Do I turn around, head back to where I started, and search higher up toward the dry shore? Or do I keep pushing the limit? With the tide still actively going out and exposing fresh sand by the second, I made a gut-call decision: 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. 🌊👣

As I headed south on that extra pass, I was closing in on my southern boundary when suddenly—𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐌!🎧💥

A 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃, perfectly repeatable mid-tone target completely filled my headphones. I looked down at my screen. The target identification number was locking in right in the low 50s. 🔢

The ultimate suspense: Was it just another lead fishing sinker… or was it a tungsten ring?
I dug my scoop deep into the wet sand, lifted it up, and threw the contents onto the surface. As the wet sand parted, there it was, sitting right on top. A beautiful, unmistakable tungsten wedding ring catching the fading daylight. 𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒!!! 🎉💍

I had found Jeremy’s wedding ring in just 𝟑𝟏 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 of searching! ⏱️💪

And honestly? It was all because of Jeremy’s lightning-fast thinking. By freezing in his tracks and locking his eyes onto that exact house on the shore, he gave me the perfect map. 🎯 (𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕! 🎥👀)

I pulled out my phone to record that video for him. Panning the camera over to the ring glistening in the sand, I said: “𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞. 𝐈’𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭! 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬!” 🎬🌊

I pressed send on the video and waited. Literally 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, my phone lit up. It was Jeremy! 📱💥

He was absolutely over the moon, overflowing with pure happiness and thanking me for the lightning-fast response to his plea for help. But more than anything, he was completely stunned. He couldn’t believe the ring had been found so incredibly fast! 🤯✨

With the sun setting over Saco, we coordinated the big return. As it turned out, Gary Hill and I already had an early 6:30 AM search planned for the next morning down at Footbridge Beach in Ogunquit, Maine, to look for a lost engagement and wedding ring set. 🌅🔍

We hatched a perfect plan. Jeremy wanted his precious wedding ring back so badly that he agreed to drive up from New Hampshire extra early the next morning. He was willing to make a 2-hour round trip before his shift rather than endure the agonizing wait until after work! 🚗💨

The next morning, Gary and I had been swinging our detectors for about half an hour when Jeremy arrived, walking right out onto the sand to meet us. After plenty of celebratory handshakes and a full rehash of the wild search from the night before, Jeremy walked off Footbridge Beach one incredibly happy, smiling man. He felt whole once again. 😊❤️

Now, Gary and I had a couple of other rings to find on that beach, and it wouldn’t be easy… but that is a full story for a few weeks from now! 🤫

We truly have the best job in the world, and we absolutely love what we do.
🚨𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒? 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄!🚨
If you or someone you know loses a ring, heirloom, phone, or keys on the beach, 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭! Shifting sands and incoming tides can bury or move your items permanently within minutes. 🌊⏳

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐎 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐀 𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆:
1️⃣ 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐦 & 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞: Stop moving so you don’t step on it or push it deeper.
2️⃣ 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤: Look straight toward the shore and lock onto a house, a unique tree, a lifeguard chair, or a path.
3️⃣ 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨 / 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐚 𝐆𝐏𝐒 𝐏𝐢𝐧: Take a quick picture of your surroundings or drop a pin on your smartphone maps application immediately.
4️⃣ 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟕-𝟒𝟐𝟑-𝟑𝟎𝟐𝟕! 📞💥
The sooner you call 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞, the higher your chances of a happy ending just like Jeremy’s! 🎯

“𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬.” ❤️