Ring Recovery and a Sweet Surprise

[SusanMN]

I've been thwarted for the last week from metal detecting/water hunting by a series of home improvements and finally snuck away the other night for a brief water hunt, only to find that the beach was closing within 15 minutes of my arrival. Drats. Ran into a man as I was leaving, who lost his wedding band in wading deep water. No time to even look, took his name and number and told him I'd hunt for it as soon as I could, hoping no one else beat me to it. I did a slow search this morning and within ten minutes I found the sweet little ring, so small it kept falling through the holes in my scoop. Luckily the water was clear and I could see it drop and just picked it out of the water by hand. Thought at first it was a kids ring, but turns out to be 14k with likely a CZ. I love these little rings, I have four of them that I've found now and I plan to wear them together on a chain.

It took another 45 minutes to find the missing wedding band, but I was elated because this is the first time I've found something I was actually looking for in the water. It was out at about knee deep, just about where the owner said it would be but was a good ten feet away from the area where he thought he lost it. The band was custom made, the owner had told me, and so not easily replaced and I'm so happy to be able to return it to its owners.


UPDATE: Owner picked it up a short while ago. You could see the emotion on his face when he put the ring back on his finger. Left me with a thank you card which included $50.

 

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[jgas]

Chalk that one up for the detectorists doing great deeds. Great job on the find and return... jgas

 

[davesx]

Hi Susan
Good job on finding and returning the wedding band, and getting the smaller
ring, what a nice bonus.
Dave.

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

Congrats on finding the ring for that guy, I'm sure he'll be ecstatic, great job The other ring is nice too WTG!
Glenn

 

[Ed-NH]

Awesome rings, they are always a welcome surprise

 

[JP]

That is a neat custom ring!!!

Good deeds brings about rewards.

I'm sure the person is really going to appreciate your phone call.

HH

 

[Golddreamer]

It was nice seeing you today,congratulations on finding that ring,and thank you for introducing me to this site

John

 

[tymcmurray]

Kudos to you for furthering the Karma of the
detecting world.

 

[eagle77]

 

[jimb]

Very cool find! I love those kinds of stories!

 

[sparkymaster]

That's a great story for sure.

Good karma came your way with the find of the other ring. Well done!

sparkymaster

 

[Dirt Fishin Dale]

Nice job! So did you call him yet and give him the good news?

 

[Marc(NB)]

bet ya he will be a happy camper!!

 

[time4me]

That is awesome! The custom ring is very cool, and its great that you are able to reunite it with its owner.

Nice work!

Jim

 

[350firefighter]

that was a good hunt for you and him,great job,350firefighter,was in duluth 3 wks.ago didnt do good

 

[homer007]

NICE JOB..

 

[Boobydoo]

Fantastic story, congrats for the great recovery / return and the bonus goldie!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[Indianhead Jones]

Gives you a nice feeling to be able to search for, and recover a ring for someone, doesn't it?? Nice going, Sue!

Larry

 

[ClonedSIM]

He said it was a custom band? Hmmm....

The ring you returned is an exact duplicate of my own wedding band.

 

[ivan salis]

see being nice does pay off ---you find his ring PLUS a keeper for you and made $50 worth of hunting gas money lifes good