May 27th, 2010 by Brad Lovell

Shane was in the middle of a Rugby game when he felt his wedding ring slip from his finger. Somehow Shane managed to get the game to stop, whilst he and the other players searched for the ring in the thick grass. With no luck, Shane borrowed a Metal Detector from a friend and attempted searching for the ring himself. Many people (myself included) figure Metal Detecting is simple, you just swing the detector, and when you hear a beep you have found your target. I found out the hard way that it is not that simple. Many things can cause your detector to beep including mineralisation in the ground, hot rocks, iron, rubbish such as bottle caps, scrap metal, foil, pull tabs, nails, electrical interference etc etc. As an operator, you need to know how to interpret each sound. If you attempt searching for every signal you hear, you could spend an entire day searching a very small noisy area. Shane had no luck with the metal detector he borrowed and called me over to join the search. After an hour drive, I made it to Sylvania Waters.. (south of Sydney). Shane showed me the area he was standing when he lost the ring. Literally after 30 seconds of searching I had recovered Shanes wedding ring. Ater the frustration of searching with his football team and the loan metal detector, Shane was very relieved and thankful that I had found his lost wedding ring.

June 18th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

I received a phone call from Rachel earlier on this week. Her husband Michael noticed his wedding ring was no longer on his finger. When tracing back the days events, there we’re two highly probable locations where the ring may have dropped. Michael had been on a chartered fishing boat in Botany Bay. On the boat Michael was gutting fish from an ice bucket and throwing them into the ocean. As you all know, fingers shrink in the cold…so there is good possibility Michael’s ring slipped off and is somewhere on the bottom of the ocean. The other possibility is the ring was lost while Michael was gardening earlier that day. Rachel asked me to come and check that the ring was not in the garden. I headed south so Sylvania in Sutherland Shire, and began to search the back garden area for Michael’s wedding ring. Unfortunately after checking the area several times, I was unable to locate the lost wedding ring. At least this gives Rachel and Michael piece of mind that the ring is not just hiding in the backyard.