The Lost Wedding Band

May 2007

I got an email from a person seeking help in locating a lost wedding band. Seems he had lost it a few weeks ago while working in the yard. He had already had another person come and search for it with no results. He then rented a metal detector with the hope of finding it himself. Still no luck. That's were I came in. After reading his email I replied that I would be happy to try an help. We set  time to met at his house later that week. When I arrived I noticed it was your typical Florida yard. Deep St Augustine grass and a little over a 1/4 acre. 

He arrived and told me how he and his wife were working gin the yard that day. He noticed the ring was very slippery that day so he took it off and put it in his pocket. Later that night he went to retrieve the ring form his pocket and it was gone! 

He showed me the areas he had worked that day. I grabbed my GARRETT GTI1500 and stated to work. I immediately started finding small pieces of aluminum all over the place. They had re-done his roof since the hurricanes of 2004. There was some kind of aluminum based nails and soffit trimmings all over the yard. This was going to make thing a little more difficult. These nails and aluminum shards were landing right in the pull tab zone on my detectors readout. This is were I expected the small gold wedding band to be. He then mentioned something about playing with his dog that day. I asked where that was was. He showed me that area. I thought to myself this would be the prime area to look. I began a slow girding of a 12' by 12' area. After digging more nails and aluminum pieces I got a silo nickel hit. I told him this was the best signal so far and it might be the ring.  I got down on my knees and started using my small coin probe. I heard the nice sound of a "clink" against the probe. I pushed back the grass and there it was. On small men's 14K gold wedding band. I had only be searching for about 20 minutes.

Just a plain no thrills wedding band. But very important to him and his wife.

Another successful recovery and one happy ring owner.

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