Carlos’s Lost Gold Wedding Ring Found by Tony

Posted by Billy on Saturday, October 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Carlos very happy after being reunited with his lost wedding ring!

Sometimes I get a phonecall for a Metal Detecting job, which unfortunately I cannot do due to myself being too busy with other commitments, such as house renovations I am currently doing, but I have some great contacts in Perth who can do the jobs for me.

Last night I received a phonecall from Carlos who is from Brazil and currently living in Perth with his wife. Carlos told me that he lost his ring at Mosman Park near the Swan River, and obviously was pretty distressed about losing his ring. I told him I could not do the job, but if he emailed me his contact details, and description of the ring and how he lost it, I would forward the details to a few friends in Perth who also do Metal Detecting.

So anyway I got his email and emailed my mates, and asked if any of them could help out.

First in first served, and my friend Tony was the first to reply and said he could do the job today.

Thanks Tony!

Carlos's Lost Ring Found!

He is an email I received from Tony today about the search!

Billy,

What an amazing find….yeah, I found it alright.

I picked up Carlos from his house and we drove down to the river beach area.

When we got to the spot, I realised that Carlos had been digging and sifting for his ring. There were big mounds of sand and a trench area where he had been digging. He told me he had spent 5 hours digging and sifting for it.
He’d actually bought a “metal detector” from Cash Converters and has been sifting through a section of flyscreen.

Not good I thought.

I powered up the Sovereign (max everything) and spent an hour going over and over the area, trying to flatten his huge piles of sand.
I tried the water’s edge to about 1 foot deep…nothing but crap. I dug every signal…pulltabs, sinkers, coins but no gold ring.

I could see his eyes light up every time I dug something but no gold.

I had covered the area and then some. I realised the ring wasn’t going to be found, probably buried under his mounds of sand.
I’d pretty much given up.

I told him I’d try for 5 more minutes down again at the water’s edge.

I’d really only gone there to wash the sand of the coil. Well, can you believe it….another nice tone and there in the bottom of my hand scoop was a bloody huge two tone 18k gold ring.

I washed it off and then turned around to face Carlos……the look on his face was fantastic.

We were both totally stunned….I think he was trying hard to not cry but it was very emotional for him.

His wife will be very happy.

Carlos is here working whilst his wife studies. Carlos is an Olympic K1 kayaker…might be representing Australia or Brazil in coming Olympics.

All of my services were totally free…I insisted. We are going to have a few beers next week to celebrate.

I took some pics. The close up wasn’t the best but the other two show a very happy Carlos.

Carlos wanted to also personally thank you for your website service.

Talk soon,
Tony