Dunedin Ring Finder, Dunedin, FL (2026)

05/28/2026

Matt was enjoying some time in the water near Pet Beach at Honeymoon Island State Park on Memorial Day Monday when he felt his tungsten wedding band come off of his finger. As soon as he could he posted the loss on the Honeymoon Island State Park Friends page. My friend and fellow “ring finder” Brandon Carmichael who administers a group called Pinellas Ring Recovery (that I am proud to be a member of) posted the loss in our chat group. I was out of town but a member of our group Scott Carlson agreed to look Monday evening. Scott was unable to locate the ring so I planned to look Tuesday morning. On Tuesday another trusted member of our group named Jason Connolly who is like me a member of the Ring Finders for the Tampa area joined me in the search. After about an hour Jason got a strong, promising signal on his metal detector and scooped Matt’s ring out of the water! As the pictures show, Jason and Matt were pretty happy about that!
Team effort! ✝️🙏🙌😎

05/24/2026

Hayley and husband Ellis had family members visiting over the Memorial Day holiday and in town for their daughter’s high school graduation. Hayley and some other family members decided to have a beach day at Honeymoon Island on Friday. While Hayley was in about waist deep water she felt the engagement/wedding ring set that she had been wearing about 20 years slip off of her finger. Hayley was so distraught that she left the beach almost immediately and went home. Ellis suggested that she post the loss of the ring on several local social media pages and one of those was Honeymoon Island State Park Friends. My wife Janet saw the post and pointed it out to me and several members of the page also recommended me. Hayley reached out to me and after she sent me some maps and other information regarding the loss location, I searched in the water about 2 hours until sunset Friday evening with no luck. I spoke with new park manager Kyle Easley before I left and told him I would be back first thing Saturday morning. I texted Hayley with the bad news but promised her that I would return and that if I found her ring it would be returned to her. The next morning I began to search again and my detecting buddy Jim Facinelli joined me to help expand the search area. Hayley had told me she thought the water was about waist deep when she lost the ring but I decided to go a little deeper and a little closer to the rock jetty while Jim moved a little further south. When I say “decided”, what I mean is that I ask the Good Lord to guide me for the search because no matter how good my equipment is or how much time I search especially in water I have to pass within a foot or two of the target to detect it. It wasn’t long after I moved deeper and about two hours after I began the search Saturday morning that I received a strong, promising signal and after two scoops into the sand I had Hayley’s ring in my hand. Amen!! I forwarded a photo of the recovered ring to Hayley and she was obviously elated! She and Ellis had just been discussing and preparing for the possibility of never seeing the ring again when they received my text! Needless to say the graduation festivities on Saturday were much more enjoyable! I returned the ring to Hayley and Ellis Saturday evening and we celebrated God’s blessings!
Hayley and Ellis, it was my pleasure to meet you both and be able to return Hayley’s wedding ring set. Thank you so much for the very generous reward; it will be put to very good use! God bless and Godspeed to you and your family!🙏✝️😎

05/09/2026

Sam was at Honeymoon Island State Park several weeks ago with his wife Maria and a group of friends. As he was catching a football in almost waist deep water, he felt the wedding ring he had had on his finger for about 5 years slip off into the water. Sam and his friends searched unsuccessfully for the ring and he had to leave the beach without it. A couple of days later, Sam called the park office to see if anyone had found his ring and turned it in. Park personnel had not seen the ring but gave Sam my contact information. Sam lived over an hour away so he could not meet me for a search but provided an excellent Google map pin and a description of the loss location. He also helped to confirm the loss location through pictures I sent him after I arrived. I began my search in the wet sand before moving out into the water and found a ring that I knew was not Sam’s. After detecting for about 45 minutes and in about knee deep water, I hit a promising target with my detector. When I shook the sand out of my scoop Sam’s wedding ring appeared at the bottom! I sent Sam several photos from the beach with the good news and a couple of days later returned his wedding ring to him. Once again, the smile says it all!

05/01/2026

Josephine had traveled from her home in Belgium and was visiting her sister in Trinity. The two sisters decided to spend the day at Fred Howard Park beach as they had done a number of times before. Josephine took off her wedding ring set and placed them in her chair cup holder to apply sunscreen. When she and her sister packed up to leave the beach a few hours later, the rings fell out of the cup holder into the sand and Josephine realized the rings were missing when they got to their car. They retraced their steps back to where they had their chairs but were unable to find the ring set. When Josephine returned home and did some research, she found my web page lostringdunedin.com and thirty minutes later, Josephine and I met at Fred Howard Park beach. I detected the sand from the parking lot up to where Josephine and her sister had their chairs on the beach with no luck. I then searched the chair area and hit a promising target. I dug into the sand with my beach scoop and exposed one of the two rings which Josephine joyfully scooped up out of the sand! I scanned the spot again with my detector and knew that I had the other ring in my scoop so I slowly sifted the sand out until the second ring was exposed and handed it to Josephine. Needless to say we were both elated! Josephine later told me that it would so very sad to have bad memories of Fred Howard Park because that was where her husband proposed to her!

04/25/2026

Alexis was visiting Clearwater Beach with husband Brad, their children and some friends, enjoying the great weather and playing beach volleyball behind Crabby’s Beachside Pavilion. She had placed her wedding ring in a zippered pocket of her backpack for safekeeping. The family left the beach after a few hours and later Alexis realized that her ring was no longer in the pocket! She returned later to search the area including the parking lot but could not find the ring. Alexis found me through social media and gave me the details. She thought it was most likely that the ring fell out of the pocket when she pulled the children’s sunscreen out on the way to the beach but it could have been lost further out towards the water where they had set up their canopy. Alexis sent me a map of the loss area and also agreed to meet me on site the next morning to help pinpoint the location. I arrived first and began grid searching in front of the restaurant. Alexis arrived a little later to assist but had to leave shortly thereafter to prepare for a trip out of town. I was unable to find the ring in the area where the canopy was and the volleyball took place so I began to search the beach access area where the family had entered the beach. I soon hit a promising target with my detector and scooped Alexis’s ring out of the sand! She and her husband were in the process of making a flight so I returned the ring to Alexis when they returned a few days later. The smile says it all!

04/21/2026

Sandy and her daughter Kaley were enjoying a vacation at Clearwater Beach as Kaley had flown in from San Diego to spend time with her mother who lives in Lutz. They had not been on the beach long before Sandy realized that one of her gold diamond and pearl earrings was missing. Sandy and Kaley looked around their chairs and umbrella and Sandy retraced her steps back to the restroom where she did find the earring back in the walkway but not the earring. Kaley found out about my services from Amanda at the Hampton Inn and contacted me to give me the details. When I arrived, Sandy told me she thought the earring probably came off when she removed her beach cover-up. After getting a reading for my detector from the other earring, I began my search at the restrooms and searched the sand towards their chairs. Sandy and Kaley then moved their chairs and I found the earring near the umbrella! We were all happy to see the earring back in her ear where it belonged!

04/16/2026

Pamela contacted me after she saw an article about my metal detecting services in the local newspaper. Her husband Tom had lost a 2 carat diamond earring that he had worn for years. They thought that the earring had come off while Tom was sleeping as they later found the earring back bedside the bed. Pamela had taken the sheets off the bed to wash them that day so the theory was that the earring itself had somehow been wrapped up in the sheets and made it into the washer. There was nothing to be found in the washer but the dryer had started to make a strange rattling noise after the earring loss. Obviously my metal detectors would not be effective in that setting but I do have an endoscope that I can use to check out hard to see places so I agreed to come by to see if I could help. After I arrived I took a quick look at the washer and dryer and decided that I might be best to start in the bedroom to see if the earring could still be hidden somewhere. I looked under and behind the nightstand, between the mattress and the frame, and then looked under the bed. With my light, I noticed a small glimmer at the edge of one of the mattress frame supports, reached my hand behind the support and pulled out Tom’s earring! It had been almost completely out of sight behind the support! This is at least the third item I have recovered without using my metal detector.

04/03/2026

Dr. Dave was playing a round at Tarpon Springs Golf Course when he hit a ball that rolled onto the rocks that border the pond on hole 13. As he attempted to reach down to retrieve his ball he lost his balance and fell into the pond. After he climbed out of the pond, Dr. Dave realized that his gold bracelet given to him by wife Susan a few years before for their 50th wedding anniversary was missing from his wrist! After an unsuccessful attempt to locate the bracelet using a metal detector, Dr. Dave found out about me from an acquaintance and contacted me to see if I could help him. Thanks to Jamie, Tommy and Amy with the City of Tarpon Springs as well as Howard and Jim from Tarpon Springs Golf Course, I was able to quickly receive permission to search for the bracelet after signing a release. With Dr. Dave and golf pro Jim watching (for gators!) I worked my way down into the waist deep water and after only a couple of minutes searching, my detector registered a promising signal about three feet down. I couldn’t use my scoop because of the rocks so I was able to reach down and grab the target which turned out to be Dr. Dave’s anniversary bracelet! And then there were smiles…

02/12/2026

Nancy’s husband Eddie had sadly passed away only a few months before and Nancy wore his wedding ring on her thumb. Recently, she worked in her back yard to cover several plants to protect them from an expected freeze and afterwards she drove to the beach to take a few pictures of the crashing waves. When she returned home, Nancy realized that the ring was no longer on her thumb! Fortunately, Nancy reported the loss on local social media in case the ring had been found at the beach and several people referred Nancy to me. We set up a search beginning with Nancy’s yard near the plants she had covered and after about a 30 minute search, I located the ring hidden in the grass! Needless to say, Nancy was thrilled to have her late husband’s ring back where it belonged!

02/03/2026

Amy took a short walk on Sand Key and after she returned to her car she realized that her bracelet was no longer on her wrist. The bracelet was very precious to her as it contained some of her late father’s ashes and he had passed away about 10 years ago. Amy searched for the bracelet in the sand with the help of a law enforcement officer but she was unable to find it. She later posted the loss on a local social media page called Seminole Happenings and several people tagged me. I reached out to Amy for the specifics, drove over to Sand Key the next morning, and found the bracelet after about a 30 minute search partially buried in the sand! Very blessed to have been able to get the precious bracelet back where it belonged!

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