Long time Family Friend’s Daughter Emily reached out to me as her beautiful Doberman ‘Luna’ lost an expensive electric fence collar somewhere on the large property.
I met Emily after work on a rainy day and we re-traced her steps.
After an hour we start in behind the home and on the back ridge and Emily spotted the collar laying on the ground.
Always happy to help local Friends in need of my services.
Tom was attending a bachelor party fishing weekend with the groom, groomsman and proud Father’s up in Port Severn on Little Go Home Bay.
There was a rush to get up to the location as they had an 11:00am check-out time looming.
Tim caught a small fish off the dock which caught his necklace, the necklace came loose and the sentimental ring fall into the water. The depth was approximately 5′ to 6′ of with murky bottom with lots of shells.
I used my Dive Blu3 Nemo floating battery operated air supply system with a 10′ hose, the Minelab Excalibur2 and a pin pointer to successfully recover Tom’s ring in a short amount of time as he knew exactly where his ring went in.
Thank you Tom for you donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation!
Check out my YouTube channel to see the video and underwater view;
Ajay and his long time University Friends were up at a cottage in Port Severn, Ontario. It was a last get together weekend before the summer as one Friends was headed to Western Canada.
The guys decided to do a ‘polar dip’ into the chilly waters of Georgian Bay. Unfortunately, Ajay’s wedding band slipped off his finger into the water below. One of the guys had taken a video of Ajay’s polar dip. With the help of a program I use (Splice), I imported the clip, slowed down the video and saw the moment the ring came off right in front of the dock.
I used my Dive BLU3 Nemo unit (floating battery operated air supply with 10′ hose) and my trusty Minelab Excalibur2 underwater metal detector. I the 25 minutes in the water, I found the cottage owners reading glasses, a fishing lure and finally Ajay’s beautiful gold wedding band!
What a great group of guys helping me with my equipment, recording from the dock and even a nice hot coffee with food afterwards to warm up. It was a real pleasure.
Thank you Ajay for your generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation!
See below link to my YouTube Channel “Pink Power Ally Treasure Hunter” for the video of this ring recovery;
Karen was doing some mechanical repairs on her vehicle and decided to put her diamond wedding band and her keys in her back pocket so they wouldn’t get dirty.
She visited the garden area as well as her chicken / hen coupe and back to her car.
At some point Karen pulled her keys out of her back pocket and forgot about her wedding band.
Two years later I received a message for help and decided to head to Guelph since January was quite mild and very little snowfall.
Since I was dealing with 1 1/4 acres the “grid search” technique is the key!
Found some kind of insurance tag, some trash and then her diamond wedding band! I asked her to bring out her detector to hear a tone but had pulled her wedding band out already!
After surprising Karen, we then proceeded to surprise her husband!
Since this was my the first callout for 2024, I honoured her with a freebie! Thank you for your kind gesture which I dedicated to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer event!
Happy Birthday to us Aquarians!
Check out my YouTube video and please like and subscribe! Thank you!
Link here;
#ontarioringfinder #minelabdetecting #treasurehunter #lostring #lostringinsnow #snow #guelph #eramosa #ariss #minelabmanticore #BettyBeast
Christopher had Friends visiting from out of town! They took a boat ride to Wards Island to grab something to eat! Wards Island is in the heart of the city in Toronto Harbour in downtown Toronto!
Christopher’s hat blew off and his Friend’s coaxed him to jump in after it.
Unfortunately, Christopher’s 28” pure gold rope chain was a gift from his Uncle came off his neck and sunk to the bottom of the Harbour.
Three weeks later, Christopher contacted me and we headed over to the island in one of the cutest island water taxis!
All set up with the Dive BLU3 NOMAD and my incredible Minelab Manticore underwater metal detector we started a grid search.
Not long after, the Manticore sounded off for the sweet tone of gold as the chain was 2” deep!
Christoper was so thrilled to receive his sentimental gifted gold chain back!
Thank you Christopher for your extremely generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation! I truly feel valued!
Please check out LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel, “Pink Power Ally Treasure Hunter”! Thank you!
Link here;
What can I say…. this was one incredible lost ring recovery story!
It all starts with a group of high school girlfriends getting back together in the summer of 2023 at “The Wilson Cottage”!
It was amazing reminiscing about the high school days and catching up on the last number of years! My high school girlfriends knew that I was a registered metal & scuba dive Detectorist with the global organization “The Ring Finders” as I have been posting recovery stories for over 7 years!
Of course I always ask…. “Have you or your Family ever lost anything at the cottage or in the water?
It turns out that Beth’s Mother, Mrs. Wilson, lost a gold ring in the bay that represented her 20th service year at Consumers Distributing of Canada! She thought she lost 20 years ago then they thought 30 years ago but it’s likely the ring was lost 35 to 40 years ago!
Of course I had to bring all my gear… my underwater metal detectors and my DIVE BLU3 floating battery operated air supply systems The NEMO to 10’ depth and the NOMAD to 30’ depth!
All we knew that Mrs. Wilson Lost Ring cleaning up weeds ..
So I tried in underwater detecting in July 2023 and found a number of pennies, a fishing lure and trash!
Then comes to July 2024, which we were invited back up for a milestone birthday which we shall not discuss what year! *wink
So of course, I say well I’m heading into the water to try and look for your mom’s ring again …. And 20 minutes later I come up with a gold ring and I was freaking out!
We had no idea this was Mrs. Wilson’s ring. Gina googled the image for consumers distributing! It was then confirmed that the ring was indeed Mrs. Wilson’s lost ring!
We then proceeded to FaceTime Mrs. Wilson and surprise her! And what a wonderful surprise it was as we all had tears of joy!
Thank you, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson as you did make a charity donation in 2023 to my charity the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation !
This was indeed, one of the most wonderful weekends we have ever had! Celebrating friendships along with milestone birthday and incredible years of memories!
“What happens at the cottage stays at the cottage” except for this very special Ring Recovery!
check out the video of this RingRecovery and please follow my YouTube channel! Link below;
#LakeMuskoka #muskoka411 #lostringinwater #ontarioringfinder #TheRingFindersDotCom
Didi was playing with cutie dog in the backyard. She felt her 62 year old white gold wedding band fly off her finger.
She and some of her neighbours searched the backyard for hours with no luck.
I arrived, headed to the backyard with my Minelab manticore and within a few minutes located Didi’s precious 62 year old wedding band!!
She was thrilled with excitement and such a blessed couple! It was a real pleasure to meet and help them out! I loved the hugs!!
Check out the video below;
Lost platinum wedding band jumping off boathouse roof.
Adam and his family were enjoying a lovely weekend at the Family cottage on Lake of Bays in the beautiful Muskoka’s cottage country. It also happened to be his wedding anniversary.
Adam decided to jump off the top of the boathouse into the water below. When he surfaced, his platinum wedding band was missing.
One of Adam’s Friends across the lake had mentioned me, as I recovered another lost wedding band for one of their mutual Friends in Otty Lake, Ottawa.
The water depth where the ring ended up was unknown but Adam felt it was definitely over 10’ deep.
I proceeded to use my Dive BLU3 Nomad air supply system with a hose length 30’ depth. Unfortunately, the Nomad unit was not operating properly as I was taking in water. I then switched to my smaller unit the NEMO for a hose reach 10’ depth. I managed to hear the tone of the platinum ring with a reach of 3’. Do I completed some temporary repairs to the Nomad unit and went back in the water.
After a few minutes back in the water I re-located the tone of platinum and recovered his wedding band.
I’d like to thank Adam and his family for their generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation! Not only did he receive his wedding band, but he also received a tax receipt for his donation!
Please check out my YouTube channel, like and subscribe. Video link to this ring recovery below;
Russell was hanging out with Friends throwing around a frisbee in a Toronto park close to the Beaches!
Russell went and purchased a metal detector but could not find his ring so he searched out and found TheRingFinders directory.
I proceeded down very early morning to miss the crazy Toronto downtown “Gardiner Expressway” traffic!
I found out the inherited gold ring from his Mother was quite large and heavy so it was necessary to start a grid search to cover a large area.
Well over an hour in, I decided to bring out my 2nd metal detector and put Russell to work! Within 25 minutes Russell had a loud tone in the machine, looked down and there was his beautiful ring!
He was extremely happy!
Follow the link below to my YouTube channel and please like & subscribe!
August 2023
Eric headed north from Hamilton to see his Family in North Bay, Ontario.
He decided to go for a canoe paddle but unfortunately the canoe capsized and Eric’s ring slipped off his finger into 5′ of water near the Sunset Beach boat launch.
Eric contacted me and I went up on a beautiful sunny day as I was off on holidays. I managed to ask two complete strangers Don & Barb local North Bay residents to be my safety spotters while I search for the lost ring.
A few items were found such as a fishing lure, a Medic Alert bracelet (which I tried to return) a number of trash items and after an hour and a half I finally had a beautiful solid tone on my underwater metal detector!
Thankfully, this was Eric’s 14k gold wedding band with the identifying marks of a MAPLE LEAF.
Don, Barb and I then proceeded to FaceTime Eric to surprise him with the good news!
Thank you to the completed wonderful strangers North Bay residents Don & Barb for agreeing to be my safety spotters. Also, thank you to the ring owner Eric and his Wife Megan for your generous donation to the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation! My reward goes to this amazing charity which I have been involved in for 15 years.
Check out my YouTube video of this ring recovery and please Subscribe, Follow and give a Like. Thank you.
