April 25th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

I received a text message from David on Thursday night. He had lost his wedding ring  soccer training at a park in Enfield Sydney. David was so  desperate to find his white gold wedding ring that he drove his car onto the oval so he could search at night with the head lights on. After speaking to David, he decided he would have one more search the following morning in day light. I received a phone call the following morning, unfortunately David had no luck finding the large gold ring in the grass area he believed it had fell. I grabbed my gear and was on my way to Enfield near Burwood, Sydney.  After finding the park, I asked David a million questions about where the ring could have dropped. He had a feeling he felt it drop in an area where he and his soccer team had left their bags for soccer practice. He did not really notice the ring missing until he was walking back to his car. I started searching this area to start with…unfortunately there was a large storm water drain running underneath the area where David thought the ring may have dropped. This made my detector go crazy, even with power reduced to a very low setting. The area that I could not cover with the detector, I just had to search visually. After a solid 3.5 hour search, I was about to call it a day. My back was starting to give out, but I was not content with my search, especially the interference I was getting from the storm water drains and the sprinkler system. I decided to change to a smaller coil on my metal detector. Changing to a smaller coil means each sweep covers less surface area, but it is good for getting in and around noisy areas. The detector was immediately more stable with the smaller coil on. I went back to the drain area where I had troubles detecting earlier with the large coil. About 15 minutes later, I found Davids chunky white gold wedding band hiding beneath the grass blades. This made me extremely happy! To be honest, in my own mind I had given up hope of finding the ring. Especially since David was not sure exactly where it had dropped. And also after almost 4 hours of searching, my body was telling me it was time to quit. I met up with David later on that night,  he was very pleased to have his beautiful white gold wedding band back on his finger. David, thank you so much for such a generous reward.. I really appreciate it!