February 28th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

Everyone likes a story with a happy ending, so I thought I should share this story, even though I was unable to help out this particular occasion. This is a story of Jono, who lost his wedding ring on his honeymoon in waist deep water at Lennox Head. Unfortunately, Lennox Head is a 10 hour drive from here, so obviously it was out of my area. Unable to find anyone with a metal detecting service in Lennox Head, Jono decided to hire a metal detector and search for himself. Below is a copy of his email..

Hi Brad, We are on the last night of our honeymoon and I realise I didn’t get back to you about the missing ring.  I took the metal detector down to the water but had a lot of trouble getting a stable reading.  I think the water and depth changes on the sea floor created problems.  It was difficult to tell what was a real signal and as I presumed the ring was deep I expected it may not give off a strong signal.  I was out there with my wife digging around and the tide had started coming back in, lapping above our knees which made it very difficult to keep searching.  Eventually I thought that it had got to the point where  I would have to give it away and as I turned for one last sweep I saw a glint of what looked to be gold on the edge of the reef.  I reached into the water and felt the shape, it was a ring, I pulled it out of the water and immediately new it was THE ring.  My wife and I couldn’t believe it, we had found it after four days of searching.  We really were overjoyed and relieved.

Nice work on finding your wedding ring on your honeymoon Jono! I can only imagine how relieved you and your new wife are

February 28th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

It is nice to know there are still people like Ann left in this world. Ann called me one evening after losing her silver ring whilst working in her garden. She was not sure exactly where her ring fell off, but figured it had to be somewhere in the garden area. I let Ann know I would be happy to  help her find the ring, which she mentioned was very sentimental. Then next morning Ann called with good news. She found the ring inside a garbage bag. The ring must have slid off her finger as she was putting the garden rubbish in it. I was very happy to hear Ann found her lost ring. Now this is where Ann really shows what a kind soul she is…. Ann insisted on sending me a donation for my willingness to help her. I mentioned that I could not take any money from her, as I had not actually gone out to search for her ring. But Ann would not take no for an answer. I eventually gave Ann my PO Box number, hoping she would forget to go through with her promise. But this was not the case, the following day there was a letter from Ann with a note and donation inside. Ann, if you happen to read this, thank you very very much! You really didn’t need to do this. You mentioned in our phone call that you lost a gold ring in your back yard about 50 years ago. I would really like to come over some day and search for this ring free of charge. I do not have your phone number, only your address…and I do not want to just turn up at your door step. So please, if you read this, give me a call. Otherwise I will send you a letter next week. Thanks once again! You are an incredibly generous lady!

February 10th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

Whilst searching for Andrew’s lost Platinum Ring, I managed to find two other rings in the water at Shark Bay. One is a Mens White Gold Wedding Band. The Ring has two initials engraved which will hopefully help me ID the owner. The second Ring is a Ladies Gold Ring. There are no engraving’s on this Ring, besides the Hallmark…but the Ring is very unique, and the correct owner will have no troubles describing it. So if you have lost a ring at Shark Bay Vaucluse, and are able to describe the engraved initials or type of ring, please contact me at bradl@bigpond.net.au. It would be a pleasure to return these rings to their rightful owners.