When I was at the beach a few weeks ago metal detecting, there were two other people learning to metal detect. After a while, I started talking to them. They were Marines and said a fellow Marine lost a ring while conducting physical training. The two had gone out trying to locate the ring, but could not find it. The owner of the ring had placed a three hundred dollar reward on the ring. They knew it was lost in a working construction pit where fill dirt was being removed. The Marine had been low-crawling through the mud and water when the ring slipped off his finger. I gave the two Marines my name and phone number and asked them to give it to the person that had lost the ring.

A few days later I received a message on our answering machine from the wife of the owner, but we played phone tag for another two weeks or so before we were able to talk to each other. Finally we met Saturday afternoon where the ring was lost. Both Sarah and her husband Mike the ring’s owner, met me although her husband was feeling sick with a bad headache.

I got out my White’s DFX and went down to the pit. The pit was so sticky that the mud was sucking my rubber boots off my feet so I left them on the side and continued looking for the ring. I only heard one faint signal that was about eight inches down. I suddenly realized I had left my scoop at my vehicle so Mike went to retrieve it for me. At first I dismissed the faint signal thinking it wasn’t loud or strong enough, but marked the general area. I kept going down the path they had taken sinking up past my knees in the mud. At the end where they had gotten out, I turned around and went back the way I had come. When I arrived at the weak signal again, I dug down about eight inches in the mud. I dumped the mud from the scoop and checked the hole again. The signal was gone. I checked the material from the scoop and got a stronger signal. Moving some of the mud, Mike checked it. Seeing the shape of a ring I picked it up and walked toward Sarah and handed it to her.

She could not believe her husband’s wedding ring was found. The ring was a white gold band with a diamond in the middle of two sapphires, a very nice ring. Sarah offered different rewards numerous times which I refused. The reward for me was to see the joy on their faces when he had his wedding band safely back in his hand.

I could not have found and returned this wedding ring to its owner without the White’s DFX. Thanks White’s for making a superior machine! In the ten years or more that I’ve been dealing with White’s, you have always stood behind your product. Remember to always check those weak signals. You never know - you may be passing up a beautiful ring.

Semper Fidelis

James H