April 8th, 2010 by Brad Lovell

Sadly on Australia day back in January, Liza lost her very large gold wedding ring after being dumped by a wave at the Copacabana Beach. Liza was visiting her son from South Africa at the time. Unfortunately when Liza’s son Bernard called me to search for the ring, my under water metal detector was in for repairs. Many months later, Liza contacted me via email to ask if I could search for the lost ring. Because so much time had passed by, and the ring was lost in the surf I mentioned to Liza there was very little chance of finding the ring. But as a way of getting closure, Liza asked me to search the area for the ring anyway. I drove up the central coast to the beautiful Copacabana Beach and met Liza’s son Bernard, who showed me the approximate area of where the ring was lost. Strangley enough, after 2 hours of searching the area at low tide, I did not receive one single target! This rarely ever happens…there is always at least a coin or bottle cap to dig up. If anyone has managed to find a “Large” gold ring at the Copacabana Beach, please contact me as this ring means a lot to Liza.

March 3rd, 2010 by Brad Lovell

On the weekend I was called out to Kinma Primary school at Terry Hills to help Andre search for his lost keys. I had Tony from Jewellery Rescue with me, so I figured with both of us covering the area we would have this job wrapped up very quick. Andre lost the keys while spraying weeds at the school. Myself and Tony covered the area Andre had been spraying weeds for 3 plus hours, with no luck. How could a large set of keys just vanish like that? If anyone does happen to pickup a set of keys (with a blue keyring) in or near Kinma Primary/Preschool, please contact me so I can put you in touch with Andre.

May 19th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

Today I drove out to Kingsgrove, south west of  Sydney to search for a lost wedding ring. I received a call from Dawn who mentioned her husband noticed his wedding ring missing after a day of gardening. Dawn and her husband have been married for 38 years, so of course the ring holds a considerable amount of sentimental value. After meeting Dawn and her cute puppy Charlie, I began searching the garden. The garden was covered in fresh mulch, which seemed to be the obvious place to start my search. After about 5 minutes of scanning over the mulch, I received my first nice signal that could indicate gold. Finding the signal in the mulch turned out to be harder than expected, so it was time to bust out the new vibrating Pin Pointer. The Pin Pointer lived up to its name, and pointed me to the exact location of the signal. And there it was in my hand, a shiny gold wedding ring. Dawn was very happy to have the wedding ring back in her possession.

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