October 21st, 2009 by Brad Lovell

I received an email last week titled Lost Ring. The email was from Marty who lost his mothers wedding ring at Manly Beach. I did not read Marty’s email until around 3am, but asked him to contact me as soon as he was awake. Manly beach is a very busy and popular beach, meaning there are lots of other metal detectorists hitting the beach each day. Next morning at around 9am Marty called requesting my services. I quickly packed my gear and drove down to Manly beach which is only about a 20 minute drive away. Marty showed me the area he was sitting on the beach, and I started my slow and steady grid search. The first signal I received sounded nice and loud, but turned out to be a ring pull from an aluminium can. Then another ring pull…then about 5 minutes later, a gold wedding band I want to thank Marty for a generous reward for what turned out to be a quick and easy job.