$40K Diamond Ring Lost On Beach

[FL-Hunter]

Well guys, Hopefully I will have hit my big one tomorrow.

I had a person contact me that they lost a $40K diamond ring on a specific beach in FL. They know where they lost it and they told me that if I can find it, there is a $5,000 reward for it. They told me that it was not insured so they REALLY want to find this badly! I am heading out right now to that (UNDISCLOSED) location in FL. I will post my results tomorrow upon my return. I'm giving it all I got to find it. Hopefully no other MD'er got it before I will arrive, it's been sitting in there for a week now. It's quite a distance from where I am located as well and its not a very busy beach.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this one! I got my eye's set on a nice new detector if I find this baby!

Until tomorrow!!!!!

[fsdigital12]

Good Luck and god speed

[Lindz]

Good luck!!

[goofy]

Good luck and i hope you find it,,,,

[ChunkyMonkey]

Sounds like the ring I found earlier this week....

[doug2060]

Good luck!

[Bazetech]

Good Luck! That would be sweet! Dutch

[Wayson]

Good luck! $5,000 should buy a pretty fantastic new machine.

[Scubacat]

Just keep us informed.

[Hybrid]

Hell Yeah, good luck and keep us posted...

[tmlappraisals]

Sweet opportunity, may the detector gods be with you!

[floridabill]

Good luck

[hasrob]

Good luck, how did you get people to contact you like that?

[FL-Hunter]

Well, I went to sleep last night at midnight after working all day putting down a hardwood floor in my bedroom, woke up at 3am and left my house to arrive onsite at 4am. I found this to be a great travel time. Normally this would have taken me about 2 hours to get there, and made it in just under an hour. I wish the roads were like this all the time.

I met the client who furnished me with a complete description of the ring including photograph and inscription. We retraced their steps and I carefully staked out the area with some wooden stakes. (I made these yesterday out of 1x2 pieces of wood and painted them blue so they would stand out.) We covered an area about 50ft x 25ft and then I added about another 10ft out in each direction from his estimates.

Off I went MD'ing in a 3ft wide lanes in the grid, digging each and every target that gave me even the slightest signal. After covering all of his area, I went into my area which each time I covered it, I kept increasing it out in 10ft slices and covering that in 3 4ft sweeps overlapping about a foot. After a while of uncovering TONS of targets;

3 BB's
2 Staples
4 Bobby Pins
2 hair clips
2 Hypodermic Needles
1 Bottle of something the needles get inserted in
1 4ft long steel dowel
23 tent stakes
76 bottle caps
1 part of a zipper
3 very small pieces of unidentifiable iron
1 Nail
3 Screws
5 Pieces of foil
2 Metal Juice packets
1 Empty Cigarette Wrapper
1 Rock that contains metal (Looks like a piece of Slate)
1 Heart Pendant (Costume Jewelery with fake diamonds)
1 Nickel
3 Quarters
1 Screw Driver (Snap on, in perfect condition) Kept that
1 Hammer (Craftsman in perfect condition) Kept that
1 Small Change Purse (empty)
2 Pre-Paid phone cards next to a bottle cap (Already consumed, Tried them)
1 Set of keys
6 Energizer Alkaline batteries sealed in plastic but rusted inside
1 Motorola Cell phone (Dead and in bad shape)
1 HTC Cell Phone (Broken screen and dead) May have broke by the scoop hitting it, don't know
5 Misc pieces of wire
2 Fishing Hooks attached to a lot of line
1 Vibrator (Yes you heard right, and no I didn't pick it up, just scooped it up and dumped it in the trash.
1 Earring back (14K suspected) near worthless
1 Buck Knife (Rusted)
1 Dollar Bill found in the sand while digging a pull tab
4 Pull tabs
1 Match Box Car (Hummer to be exact)
8 Misc unidentifiable pieces of something connected to plastic (All Different)
3 Cigarette lighters
1 WWII Land Mine (just kidding here)

All that found on a very low traffic private beach. I hunted till 10:30am so I worked this beach hard for about 6 1/2 hours. I got 3 blisters on my hands from all the scoop digging I did and my back is about ready to call it a day. I spent all day yesterday till about 10pm putting down a wood floor in my house and now I have to finish it and get a few hours of sleep in before I have to get up for work at 3pm and work till 3am. Talk about A DAY!

So that was my day. The client, although sad that it was not able to be recovered, saw all the hard work I did and was amazed of all the stuff I dug out of the "BEAUTIFUL CLEAN BEACH" he thought it was. He rewarded me with $100 anyway for my efforts and travel and we left this case open. I have exact measurements of where I hunted and will be heading back to this location again in a few days. The client doesn't go back to him home country for 3 more weeks and has completely put his trust in me finding it if it was indeed lost on that beach near that location as I had proven to him without a doubt if it's there, I WILL find it. Until it is recovered, the location will remain (undisclosed).

Until next time when hopefully I have a Success Story to report. This is FL-Hunter's Report.

[botflyguy]

$40,000 ring and NOT insured? Not too bright, if'n ya ask me! Maybe you could sell them some 'prime' Florida real estate after you find the ring...

[FL-Hunter]

Originally Posted by hasrob

Good luck, how did you get people to contact you like that?

I have been putting the word out for a few years to everyone I know, that I do MD'ing as a hobby and am available for hire to recover lost items. I don't have people knocking down my door with calls but I do get quite a few and I do recover more than 1/2 of the items lost.

I'm convinced the reason I don't recover 100% of them is because sometimes, where they say the lost it they really didn't and other times, someone else may have located it before I got there. I'm confident though if it's where I swing my coil, I am 99.99999% certain, I will recover it.

[FL-Hunter]

Originally Posted by botflyguy

$40,000 ring and NOT insured? Not too bright, if'n ya ask me! Maybe you could sell them some 'prime' Florida real estate after you find the ring...

We talked about that, an apparently he is very wealthy and doesn't care much for the value of the ring, as much as what the ring stands for. The guy hand made the ring for his Wife and the diamond that was in there, he said he got while on a mining trip in Africa and had his best friend who died in a war (he didn't mention which one) cut that stone for him. It was a blue diamond which is very rare, he said not a very expensive one, but I guess each persons idea of expensive is different as to me, $5000 is expensive.

The guy doesn't believe in insurance is the bottom line. He says if he paid for insurance for everything in life, he would be poor like the rest of the world. I don't know what he does for a living, but he can afford to spend over $500 a night to stay at a fancy place so he must be doing something right. While doing all these, his Wife was out on the beach at his side and the masseuse came out looking for his Wife as she was late for her morning massage. Hmmm, must be nice.

He was not conceited though, he was very nice and friendly, he offered me breakfast in the hotel, his treat, however I declined because I was not exactly dressed for the occasion wearing a bathing suit, T-Shirt, Ball cap and sand all over my legs.

[burlbark]

Cool story.... I look forward to a happy ending.

[Sonny b]

Go go go!!!!!!! I hope you find it!! Don't forget your camera!! Good luck.

[D14Rocks]

That would be great if you find it and the man get's his ring back for his wife and you get $5,000 for a reward.

Good luck. I would bet if someone hasn't already found it, you have the best shot with the detectorl. Are they sure they lost it at the beach?