I recently became a Ring Recoveries on WWW.TheRingFinders.com.... I was contacted a week later by a very young in their marriage and young in general couple. The Groom had lost his ring while swimming at 12pm during high tide. He felt it leave his finger and he was devastated. Crying. I reassured him and asked him "Do you know when and where you lost it"? Yes he said olin chest deep water. I jumped out of it playing around. It left my finger. I started frantically scurrying the bottom of the sea and digging around. Then I told him “sir please do not do that again. I understand this is a stressful situation in which you feel helpless and like there is no hope. Do you knew where you were at in the water?" Yes he said. I said go to the wash where the waves are breaking and take your cell phone with you and mark it on GPS. So we hung up. He sent me the location. I said okay sir. I will get to you when I can finish work. He started balling. Crying historically. I said "sir it’s okay and I will find your ring. I will not stop until I do". He said wow thank you so much for trying to calm me down and for reassuring me sir. But honestly should I expect to see it again. It has to be long gone. I said “I vow to you I will find your ring sir. I am a seasoned metal detectorist and I have the best metal detector in the world." Honesty where he lost it I thought myself it was a goner due to the he rip that's by the inlet. My brother had an emergency and had to end up using my truck so I get off work. Go home. I text him telling him hey idk if I can make lt my brother had to Barrow my truck. Well he replied: I will come get you send me your address. This is now 5 pm. 5 hours later. In the Atlantic Ocean that ring was for five hours. I get picked up. Me and my wife. She is my partner in Ring Recoveries. Well we get there at 5:35. She my wife runs up to look a t beach. All good we run out there. I turn on my metal detector and set it up get everything ready turn on my Bluetooth headphones and start swinging where the GPS Mark was and walking down from his chair where it was to the water. I hear several signals. Some slightly ring sounding but not what I was looking for. To high on scale. Passes em up. It's dead low tide now to by the way. And I heard a good one did a 90 degree turn on it and went to 15 khz it was a pull tab 100% so I didn't dig it and low and behold I get two feet from the was up line and banging signal. Sounds all day like a ring and the vdi scale was sorta higher than I normally dig men’s 18kt Bands at. Well the signal though and I absolutely knew what it was I called my wife over. She had my sand scoop. I took two huge scoops out of it and mind you I have an above the knee amputation on my left leg do to hunting accident. When I was six. I got shot. I use crutches even when metal detecting. So I had her dog last scoop and bam under the scoop In the hole Sandi my beautiful wife pulled out his ring. She pulled it out it was the first Target I dug not the first Target I heard 22 on the vdi scale. Amazing story because it took me exactly 8 minutes to find it.
Nathan – North America
