Rockingham Beach Lost Gold and Diamond Wedding

Lost Beautiful Diamond and Gold Wedding Ring from Rockingham Beach

 Last Wednesday night I received a desperate phonecall from Ken, who informed me that his family were celebrating Australia Day down at the beach near Rockingham Beach / Kwinana Beach, and that his daughter Allison had lost her Diamond Encrusted wedding ring whilst swimming in the water.

I asked Ken how had she lost her wedding ring, and he informed me that she had just applied sunscreen lotion to her body and that her ring had slipped off her wedding ring finger whilst in the water.

This is a very common occurence to people who go swimming, they apply the sunscreen lotion and their fingers become very slippery and the ring just slides off their fingers without even them noticing.

Ken also told me that this was the second time that she had lost a ring whilst swimming.  So there is no way she will be wearing her rings whilst swimming again.

Allison was due to fly back to her home in Sydney on Sunday, so there was an urgent need for me to get to Rockingham to find Allisons ring.

Allison's Lost Wedding Ring from Rockingham Beach

I arranged with Ken, that I would come to Perth first thing Saturday morning, and it would be a 600km return trip for me.

But I am always dedicated to my job, and I was very excited to get to Rockingham Beach to find the lost ring.

I met Ken at the beach around noon Saturday, it was a stinking hot day, around 40° celcius. In my excitement to get to the beach from my car, I forgot to grab my wetsuit top, a mistake I’d regret the next day!

Ken pointed me in the right direction to wear he said that Allison had lost her ring, so I started doing a grid search of the area.

I told Ken that if he saw me dig for stuff or use my sand scoop, not for him to get too excited, as it may not be his ring, but could be just junk, like bottle tops, lead sinkers, trash, coins and so forth. It did not take me long to start getting some clear signals, but much to my frustration it was just trash, as mentioned above.

The water at Rockingham Beach was as clear as crystal, so clear you could see 10 plus metres in front of you when snorkling.

Time went quick and before I knew it, a couple of hours had gone, and I was getting pretty frustrated and I could see that Ken was also starting to lose hope. My arms were starting to get a bit sore, and I could feel a few light cramps starting to ache in my calves, the water was getting a bit cold and my hands looked like wrinked prunes. And worst of all, my back was as red as a lobster…. I should have worn my wetsuit top!

I found a few coins, around 6 bottle caps, some lead sinkers, and some rusty metal… my patience was running out.

I got out of the water, and said to Ken, “mate, looks like we ain’t gonna find this ring today”

I don’t normally give up hope when search for lost rings, especially in crystal clear and calm water…. but I knew I was getting severely sunburnt, and I needed to get covered up properly… even though it was beyond too late…. my back was already severely burnt.

But Ken was determined that I find his daughters lost ring, and he pointed me back to the exact area to where he originally told me to search… so I put my metal detector exactly where his feet were in waist high water, and within seconds I got another crispy clear tone.

I thought it may have been another bottle cap, so I dug my Stealth Metal Detecting Beach Sand Scoop in the soft sand, pulled it out of the water, and watched the sand drain away through the holes.

I saw that beautiful glimpse of gold and diamonds, and looked at Ken and asked “Was your daughters ring gold?” and he looked at my with a wry smile and said “yes!” then leaned over and looked into the scoop and his eyes lit up and he said “that’s it!”

Very Happy Father Ken, holding Daughter Allison's Lost Wedding Ring from Rockingham Beach

Wow both of us were so happy! Finally I found it with Kens pin pointing help! I congratulated Ken and he congratulated me, we were both as happy as Larry!

To top off the day, Ken told me that he had not told his daughter that he contacted me to find her lost ring, and that he was to present the ring back to Allison that night, prior to her leaving for home to Sydney!

Wow, how loving is that for a father to do for his daughter, that really is something beautiful and no doubt both Ken and his daughter Allison will remember for ever… that certainly is a fathers devotion to his daughter!

Allison had thought that she had lost her ring forever, but that night she was reunited with the ring by her father Ken!

I shook hands with Ken, and we wished eachother all the best for the future…. I left Rockingham for my next ring search, to find a couple of gold and diamond rings lost in a playground near Karrinyup… thats my next story!

Metal Detecting Tip

Make sure you do your grid searchs thoroughly…. I thought I had searched the area properly where Ken asked me to search again, then I found the lost ring…. I must have been a few centimetres out the first few times, just goes to show, that it is so easy to miss a lost ring … always double and triple check your griud searches! Mind you it is hard search in water, due to the tidal and current movement… my excuse!

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