Name: Elisabeth

Type of object lost: Ring

How long ago was item lost? last night 12/2/24

Message and comments: The ring was lost by a client at an addiction treatment facility located in Lockhart Texas. The owner of the ring is extremely distraught. She was sitting down by a pond when she realized she had ants crawling on her. She stood up and tried to shake the ants off and, in the process, the ring slipped from her finger and fell into the water. The pond is pretty murky and while many have stuck their hand down in it and felt around it, it has not been found. The client is talking about wanting to buy a heavy-duty metal detector to find it, but I am hoping there is someone who already has one that would be willing to be paid to find it.

Search team leader announcement: December #2
Location is north of Lockhart. Ring is yellow gold wedding ring with diamonds. Someone tried with a detector but did not submerge the coil in the water. The water could be 1-2 feet deep. I asked that no one enter the water to prevent stepping on ring and pushing it deeper. If anyone is interested, please reply-all. Communication with Elisabeth is best via text message.
Thanks, Scott

December 9, 2024: Paul Krugler and Andrew Phillips attempt the search.

Search result: After about an hour and a half onsite, and hopes dimming, SUCCESS!

We had searched the shoreline and gone as far as we could out into the water, which had some troublesome moss and almost knee deep mud. We were considering dragging moss from beyond Detector reach in closer so we could check farther out in that way. But before we went to that effort, Andrew and I decided to expand our search a little bit in shallower water. On my side, I had stopped where a log was in the water. Fairly quickly I got a junk sounding signal on the other side of the log. My AT pro numbers were inconsistent between 50 and low 70s. And I was having trouble getting a good location fix with my larger coil. Andrew came over with his Minelab and small coil. In seconds he determined that there was a target pretty well up against the log. We still weren't optimistic, but up came the ring on Andrew's second pin-pointer grab! It was a WOW ring.

Elisabeth, the rehab center employee who contacted us, was with us and we all celebrated together. She was pretty emotional, saying how much this was going to mean for the client who had lost the ring. I was impressed by how much she truly cared for the client. She said she would personally make a donation to the club even after we explained that no donation is expected. Elisabeth asked permission to give our contact information to the client, which was fine with us. It will be neat if the client does call.

This ring is likely the most valuable item I have ever been involved in finding - wide gold bands fused together with multiple large diamonds plus smaller ones.

Paul