Posted: under Jewellery Rescue Australia, Sydney Rescue's, Uplifting.
Tags: clothes, diamond, Maroubra, metal detector hire, platinum
Well this story is one of the reasons I do a metal detecting hire service for Australia. Martin called me Sunday night about 9pm when I went to bed early for a change tied after a water job. I didn’t hear him call, SMS or email and my phone was on the bedside table, I normally am a night owl and have taken calls as late as 1:20am. So in the morning I returned Martins call to learn his fiance had brushed her hands on her clothes and sent the ring flying around a path and a garden further away than they first thought in this cooler weather as hands shrink. I arranged to meet Martin and her fiance at their place that night so they would not have another night with out their heartfelt engagment ring currently absent without leave.
Martin and Olivia recovered ring.
Greeted on arrival by Martin and Olivia we where soon looking at the search area where the ring was lost. The couple had allready visually searched hard by torch light and looked into a surface drain near their newly installed outdoor oven. I also admired the new look mondo grass with scissor trimmed short back and sides not some time you see every day, all good all search efforts to re-find the AWL platinum and diamond ring. Olivia and Martin at my search request swept up the clippings over the path and put them in plastic bag just in case the ring was amongst it. We detected some thing metal and turned the dogs washable bed into a make shift sorting table to find a nail. Well my main detector quickly found the steel in the path a few surface pegs and nails. So I switched down to a cute little detector i use in tight places amongst plants. and with in a few passes detected a signal that matched some thing platinum like. I peeked into the detection area in question and stepped back while talking to Martin and Olivia about some other interesting finds I made at other places for a minute or two as I do. I am not sure what Olivia was thinking but she said aren’t you going to check that signal? Smiling inwardly at anticipation of their impending find I held out the pinpointer and said who wants the honours? Looking at each other Martin took the pin pointer and found what I had all ready seen and kept quiet about bad boy me, their wayward engagement ring. He took the ring brushed it and placed back on her finger and said “it looks like the wedding is still on” with a bit of humour of his own. Thanks guys for the invite to your home to search for what will be a new family heirloom one day. I think you might agree Olivia’s smile tells you about the thanks this couple sincerely expressed. Not so lucky for the next person I searched for that night on Maroubra beach with two detectorists, at times, working till 3 am. Result a No Find, thats detecting some times sadly I hope our detailed exhaustive search gave them some closure on their loss.
Jul 26 2011
Posted: under Canberra Rescue, Jewellery Rescue Australia, Sydney Rescue's.
Tags: A.C.T., Canberra, diamond, gold, metal detector, Pendant
A young family from Canberra where ready to return home spending another last hour or two on Cronalla beach before heading inland again. It was here where Max’s wife had her Small diamond D letter shaped pendant fall of it’s chain in to the sand. They knew to within one meter of where it fell but visually searching proved hopeless and they had to start travelling home soon that day.
I arranged to meet Max and his family ASAP on the beach in approximatly an hours time to recover their wayward pendant for them. Once I meet the family and they showed me the small search area the quality metal detector made short work of finding small the 10mm tall D Pendant in the loose sand for them. A small item but deeply meaning full to the family. We where all happy they will be taking it home with them not left unsearched for on the beach.
Jun 04 2011
Posted: under Sydney Rescue's.
Tags: detector, diamond, hire, matal, metal detector hire, Rydalmere, solitaire
Met Kim, Craig and their lovely Daughter doing some very nice home improvements. Kim stopped for a break and was playing ball with her daughter when her wedding ring with a sizable solitaire diamond flung off her finger with the ball toss. The ring quickly vanished into the garden or the mowen grass seemingly with out a trace. Kim called me after searching manually and after considering renting a detector a wise decision for the sake of saving approx $50 you get experienced operators, search knowledge, and best equipment over a bare bones rental. In fact I loaned a good spare detector to Kim and Craig to search ahead of me for their ring. The detector was wildly beeping at many buried metal items and nails in the timber garden frame.
Lovely Ring
I was scanning the wider grass area in the failing light donning a headlight to see. Kim and Craig did a top job finding all sorts of metal items, they would make great detectorists. However it turns out they where tricked by nails in the near by wood work masking the ring from their detection as they moved on. I moved in on that area and detected the immediate grass area , the potted plants on the garden edge with no ring signals for starters. Next was a slow scan along the lawn edge along a timber edge with the dreaded numerous nails at intervals. Like Kim and Craig I also was given a distorted signals from the multiple targets but experience had me check one specific signal manually with a Pro pinpointer we use for surface targets. With out to much delay out popped Kim’s lovely diamond solitaire ring with some coaxing from my finger, deep out of the thick spongy buffalo grass roots. I never get tired of seeing rings come to light and peoples faces lighting up. This job took approx twenty minutes so tonight they wont be stressed out about a missing ring with the fairies in the bottom of their garden. I thank Craig and Kim for their trust to do the job right for them and invitation to their home.
May 26 2011
Posted: under Jewellery Rescue Australia, Stunning, Sydney Rescue's, Uplifting.
Tags: chipping norton, diamond, found, gold, gold ring, heirloom, liverpool, lost, metal detector, metal detector hire
It was 3pm - I arrived to metal detector hire search a 1.2km looped running track that Bianca jogs frequently. The target was a beautiful 36 diamond 25 mm pendant that has a matching ring of equal distinctive qualities. As it turned out, the emotional value of this ring far outweighed any dollar value countless times over. A few days prior to my call from Bianca, she had discovered much to her dismay, the clasp of her strong pendant chain impossibly had opened snagged on her top, while jogging that day. Her mother’s irreplaceable pendant was missing. This isn’t just any pendant. It was the one her mother gave to her and formed an emotional connection between them regardless of distance apart. I heard how Bianca’s loving family diligently searched the path numerous times to try and recover it over several days as the path was frequented by many people on walks. Bianca’s Husband wisely put up a few reward posters as many honest people still exist and look for clues as to the real owner. I also added my own reward posters with my own phone number as I can shield people and lady owners from nuisance calls and preserve their privacy. After Bianca and I surveyed the route she took around the jogging track in Chipping Norton, I started metal detecting as fast as I could go without missing items. Many people frequented the path and hope of finding such a distinctive item was diminishing with time. Night was falling, Bianca’s son stopped by to warn me that some drug users frequent the area at night. I thanked him for his advice but stayed detecting and making sure the first leg of the path was completely search both sides before I left. I informed Bianca via sms of a nil result. I would have to return fresh the next day. The following day was glorious and I started out in good spirits to finish off the 1.2km track, (both sides that are 2.2km of detecting). I started where I left off the night before with the highest of level of focus I could muster a kilometre of search area to go. I found over 250 metal junk items. I detected no fewer than two swampy foot bridges until it was the 11th hour and I was on the last 50 metre leg of the path I could see the path end in sight yet giving up wasn’t an option until last 1mm is searched. Another signal, like so many before but this time sitting on its edge, nearly invisible under a small sapling gum tree, a sight to behold when Bianca’s mother’s pendant flipped face up into my hand sparkling brilliantly in the sun. It was like holding a piece of the sun in my hand; I was so pleased it was found. A weight lifted as I had fathomed its emotional importance to Bianca, of whom I later found out, had been so worried and upset that she hadn’t eaten or slept properly since its loss which effects most people this way. When I told her it was found over the phone she needed time to let her feelings to change from that of deep loss to restoration and beyond. I gave the pendant to her son who was at home so he could reassure his mother it was indeed found and safe once more home where it belonged. I was invited back later that day to a very warm smiling family.(Found pendant on the right hand side of photo.)
Reunited jewellery
In Hindu tradition when people save people from ordeals and bring peace of mind, Bianca whole heartedly called Jewellery Rescue and “myself , a god for the day”. Well this was a compliment which touched me – that my efforts were appreciated so. I even today let that positive compliment amongst others good will power my search efforts in the most toughest detecting conditions to support new search efforts near or far. But reality remains constant I can’t always overcome all adversities and recover all people’s jewellery no matter how hard we want, will it or search. We care at Jewellery Rescue on all of our metal detector hire jobs that much we can guarantee. My thanks to Bianca and her family her hospitality, the generous reward has enabled me to do my brand of positive good in the elsewhere.
Nov 14 2010
Posted: under Greater QLD Rescue, Jewellery Rescue Australia.
Tags: detector hire, diamond, engagment, gold, metal detector, rockhampton, white gold
Dianne a bride to be didnt ever think she would need to hire Jewellery Rescue metal detector hire service to get married. 
As it turns out she was ready to leave the beach with her friends and stood up brushing the sand from clothes when off came her very nice engagment ring. It was 14k white gold, set with varing size diamonds to a peak visualy unique. The sand just covered it up with out trace. Dianne said she had at least 20 people sifting the sand with their hands to no avail for the ring after they saw her trying to find it herself. She phoned her brother who used the internet to find our company Jewellery Rescue. I contacted Brian our local detectorist in the area who in this case was able to come down to the beach straight away. To his credit he had found the ring in less the 60 seconds detecting time. Also to
Dianna’s credit too as she marked the beach exactly where she lost the ring giving us a precise search area. Dianna also confessed in relief after we recovered the ring she was very nervous to have to tell her currently overseas fionce that she lost the ring he gave her. Well at least now she can tell him and have a positive outcome. Other Guys and girls out there please try to forgive each other for any lost rings out there it happens to both sexes all to often keeping in mind it dose take a bit of cooling off when a hard earned $$$ ring is lost providing a detector hire dosnt recover it for you..
Oct 23 2010
Posted: under Jewellery Rescue Australia, Sydney Rescue's.
Tags: diamond, Grandmother, heirloom, hire, metal detector, metal detector hire, Narroweena, North shore, ring, treasure
Saved by a hire service. A miraculous metal detector hire true story at Narroweena in Sydneys Northern shore. The finding of Jan’s Grandmother’s, engagement diamond ring. It was 7.30 am I had been up early that morning searching local beaches for new treasures given up by the stormy ocean’s waves and currents but that’s another story. Jan’s story began when she was standing on the balcony overlooking their yard. She tossed a stick for their bouncing boxer dog but right at the point of release she felt and saw both the stick and diamond ring leave her hand and sail across the yard into a lovely garden of huge waist high birds nest ferns. They searched the garden intensively by hand and sight even over the fence at the neighbour’s yard as a remote possibility. The ring was an irreplaceable golden heirloom lovingly entwined with the family’s historical love stories. A new ring could never take its place.
- Diamond ring 2 Meters in the sky.
So the search began where Jan best thought she saw the ring hit the fronds of a particularly large birds nest fern. The search area wasn’t particularly big but moving the metal detector search coil through brush is a tricky task at times. I moved the metal detector around, inside and up the fronds of the huge ferns. As they are designed to catch leaaves why not rings I reasoned. But not this time. About 30 minutes into the search I had pretty much covered the ground twice and apart from the normal assortment of non gold metal items found, there was no sign of the Diamond ring. Standing in the middle of the garden looking back at the balcony I was thinking that there were a couple of trees in the possible rings flight path which had lovely ferns growing in the forks of the branches. Ferns were also tied on the sides of the trees. So on a hunch, I started waving my metal detector in the air up and down the trees over my head. The look on Dennis’s face watching my unexpected tree search was basically one of disbelief . lol 
At first the metal detector picked up the metal wire holding the ferns in place on the tree, but then at extreme range there was a second beep, this beep was a strong and very positive gold reading. I asked Dennis if he had a ladder, I think he found me the ladder just to humor me somewhat. So there I was waving the detector all around a tree Approx 2 meters above the ground. While waiting for the ladder, I targeted the gold signal somewhere in the fork of the tree. I swapped the metal detector for the pinpointer close work and ease of climbing the ladder to find the source of the signal. Now up the ladder looking down on the tree fern in the tree fork I didn’t need the pinpointer. There in plain sight, was the ring. Sitting sparkling in the sun nestled in the fern. Handing the engagement ring down to Dennis was a great feeling and hearing him call out to Jan “he found it” - ”Tony found it in the tree”. Jan who was on the balcony replied “what!! no! I dont believe it.” If I hadn’t been there I might not have believed it either. This is the sort of story parents will tell their children if they want them to grow up to be expert metal detectorists. The moral of this story is if you see me searching for your lost jewellery away from the “target area “ humour me as I will go the extra lengths to find your jewellery too. Dennis and Jan thank you for making me welcome in your home.
Aug 03 2009
