Missing Ring in the Wiser Lake Area
Yes unfortunately another lost ring? Thought she had lost it at her brother-in-laws house at a birthday party. After covering that location we then went to her home and recreated her morning that day. Worked a few areas around her house then she remembered she took a walk into the woods so off we went. Swinging the metal detector along a wooded trail to a beautiful location turned up nothing. Of course I kept swinging on the way back and actually spotted it on the ground a bit off the trail and made the find. It is interesting how a ring ends up where it is eventually found. Every time I make a find I learn something new about how and where to look. It is not as simple as it seems, and why we get calls from people who have spent days searching. So yes we can usually help and often its is not always with the metal detector or in the location believed to be.
Got a call for a lost ring in Ferndale Washington. He was doing yard work and throwing all his debris over a fence into a field spreading it out as he went along. So of course he thought it flew off his finger while flinging plant cuttings. Often a lost item isn’t where you think its is. Unfortunately the only way to rule out the idea is to search. It was a straight forward area of search that turned up nothing. I then will try to recreate the scene and take the client back in time to relive the moment before the obvious to after. Help them walk through it and usually some other locations or ideas will turn up. Unfortunately in this case that did not help either. I kept swinging back to my car and found it in the parking area. Another location where people often lose items.
Today in Bellingham Washington I found a ring for a client who was enjoying our warm weather in the lake. He actually lost two rings and saw them fly off his hand while throwing a football. For those who do not know, when you are in cold water your fingers shrink and it is very easy to lose rings. Especially when making harsh moves like throwing a football. If you have a ring or rings that are already loose, you should remove them before swimming in cold water. Always better safe then sorry! These were lost in about four feet of water. He was able to find one at the moment of loosing them but called me out to find the second. Without too much trouble the second ring was recovered.
Back around the first of July Sue Bardins, a former co-worker from FCS, contacted me and stated her friend lost his ring. I met Steve at the site and he explained that they had pulled up their pontoon boat on the shore to spend some time swimming in the sandy area of the river. He was in about chest deep water right behind the pontoon boat when he felt his ring fly off. I searched that area up to my neck and came up empty. We figured the ring was pushed out deeper from the prop wash of the boats that docked there quite often. The plan was to wait until late fall or winter when the water level was lowered to work on the dam. Water level was at least 10 ft lower today and the area where the ring was lost is no longer under water. The temperature today was in the 40’s and with the recent rain, most of the snow has disappeared. I contacted my friend Chuck Raison to help me with the search and in about 20 minutes Chuck came up with the ring. Actually the ring was found about 15 ft further west than I had searched. I stopped on my way home and surprised Steve and his wife with the ring. This year was their 20th anniversary. We never give up hope!
looking for a needle in a haystack. Jeremy Roth of Ringfinders to the rescue. He found the ring along with a few other items overgrown by the ivey. Just in time to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary!
