Bryan Mihalek, Author at The Ring Finders

I got a call late at night from a guy who had lost his very sentimental Crucifix while playing sand volleyball at a local park. (he felt his chain snag on the net and snap, and he looked down and saw the chain which he scooped up but could not find the pendant). They had gone back with a cheap chinese detector with no luck. He had to work so I met his girlfriend at the park the next day. I had done some testing at home on a small crucifix of mine and chose my Gold Bug 2 for the search (I brought along a White’s Treasure Pro for just in case but never pulled it out). She showed me the spot she remembered him being at the time, but I ended up searching a roughly 15′ x 15′ area and found it about 10 diagonal feet on the other side of the net! Ironically, about 30 seconds before the recovery, his girlfriend was on the phone with him and said to me: he’s asking if you think you will find it and I told her that unless some lucky duck had happened along and found it sitting on the surface which was extremely unlikely that my machine would find it; and right exactly then, Bingo! He was still on the phone and jokingly told me that if it was not found he would have cried for a year haha. I was so happy for him!

I got a call from a guy who’s teen daughter had dropped her phone (which was in a waterproof case & containing hundreds and hundreds of unbacked or “cloud”ed pictures of her young teen life) in the Salt River while tubing. She was devastated. He said it was in about 3-4 feet of water near the shore and they had pinned the appx. spot. I was unable to make it in a timely manner so I suggested to him that because of the bulk of the phone he go to Big 5 and buy a hundred dollar bounty hunter detector and not install the coil on the shaft which would give him 5-6 feet of search depth. I advised him to have someone else hold the control box above the surface. The next day he texted me saying they had found the phone- still on- and with 25% power left on it! He told me both he and daughter couldn’t wait to find more stuff with the detector. More detectorists born! I just had to share this. Bryan Mihalek, Member of The Ringfinders in Arizona.