Lost a ring or other jewelry in the United States

The search is done by an experienced detectorist who knows the area. When you message us, we choose an experienced detectorist who knows the place where you lost it and brief them with your map and photos. If nobody suitable can get there, or the odds are poor, we tell you before anything is booked.

Often, if it came off at wading depth and you can say roughly where. A ring in the surf sinks lower each time a wave stirs the sand, so the time of the loss matters because it tells us where the waterline was. A ring or phone dropped off a pier or boat into deep water is a much harder case, and we will say so.

Both are metal, so a detector picks them up. A lost Oura ring gives a signal much like a plain band, and a lost wedding ring in dry sand often stays close to where it fell. What decides it is how well you can mark the spot and how much the tide and surf have moved the sand since.

Where and when it happened, what you were doing, and a photo of the ring or item. Once we go ahead, a pin on a map and photos taken from where you stood, lined up with something that does not move such as a lifeguard tower, a set of stairs or a tree, help the detectorist start in the right place.

You can, but mark the spot and take photos before you start. A metal detector for a lost ring works best in careful hands, because on a busy beach a borrowed machine mostly finds bottle caps and ring pulls, and repeated digging can push a ring deeper. Plastic sunglasses never show on a detector; those are found by eye or by a diver.

We explain the costs before any search is booked. They depend on the place and who can reach it, so we talk them through once we know where and when it happened. Nothing goes ahead until you have agreed.