Hire Jewellery Rescue Metal Detector Hire

It was 4.30 pm on Maroubra Beach after a detector hire near the Rubicks cube north end of the beach where I failed to help  find  Mr Lee’s car keys even after much searching and fruitless digging metal detector search.  I had a sheen of perspiration on my forehead from the last job and the bitter taste of failure even though I shouldn’t beat myself up as some jobs can be mission impossible before they start. Not that we are ever to know that before we start a search.   To take debatable positive action I took a beach found gold coin and threw it out to sea for luck.  Not that I am superstitious. Well it cant hurt right?  Unless you happen to be swimming  along and a coin hits you in the back of the head out of the blue. Just kidding – I was aiming out  to sea.  Then it was back to business once again. In my hand I had Mr Stephane’s excellent treasure map of where he and his family had visited the beach and  unintentionally lost his wedding band. The prefect treasure map was a satellite image of the beach copied  from google maps and pasted into a basic  Windows picture editor like  Paint (in windows xp) there was added red rectangles  precisely locating the search area to within 5 meters.  

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The afternoon started at 12.30pm when I was on my way to  search for Mr Stephane’s wedding  band which  slipped off his finger while  enjoying  a beach visit at the lovely Maroubra Beach. I arranged to meet  Stephane later that day.  As luck and good friends would have it, Brad - another skilled metal detector from www.metaldetectorhire.com.au  phoned to ask if I was available to cover a  metal detecting job for him. (Brad and I work well together to put customers needs ahead of our own. ) Brad told me of Mr Lee’s story – how the night before he coincidentally lost his hire car key on the same beach as Mr Stephane’s  while he was travelling from Melbourne to Brisbane stopping in Sydney to visit friends. 

Beach eats hire car key.

 I meet  Mr Lee on the north end of the beach next to the giant rubics cube sculpture.  I also noted  while crossing the beach the tell tale tracks of the beach sweeping machine from earlier that morning and started to become worried.  Mr Lee told me if the key wasn’t found he would be stranded in Sydney for at least two more  days  in a motel waiting for a spare  set of car keys to be posted up to Sydney to enable him to continue his  journey.  Mr  Lee also said he had to call the NMRA out to unlock the car to get kids clothes out for the night. This was disastrous  news to  my mind and made me very determined to break this run of bad luck for this family and to find those lost keys. I had car trouble travelling in  New Zealand so I know what it is like having rental car troubles. Ours was broken into with a smashed window we had to wait for the window  to be replaced.  But sometimes the hardest work and best intentions can’t cancel stop the run of bad luck.   I searched hard in vain digging every metal target and there was lots of metal rubbish for three and a half hours. The search covered all the  area the family  had walked over and  played on.  The keys had to be there… or were they?   Mr Lees ‘s Sydney friend had joined us on dusk and we all basically reached the same conclusion. We where starting to think, that the key had indeed been swept up and taken away to a rubbish tip as the key is large with a hire car tag and easy to be swept up in the machine.   Mr Lee thanked me for my hard work and search efforts and paid me the a key search. I just hope Mr Lee had travellers insurance which covers these sort of out of pocket expenses while travelling.  From here it  was a 700 meter walk down the  beach walk to my original search job finding the gold wedding  band for Mr Stephane. I am not  really a superstitious person but I threw a  small hand full of coins I found on the beach into the ocean to try buy some good karma for the next job. Hope it works.

Tony  Jewellery Rescue.

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