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I have a story to relate about an experience I had today.
I got an email from the local Whites dealer asking if I were interested in helping a couple who had lost a very sentimental and special ring in the surf. They had lost it last week (just before the 4th of July). The wife was crushed that she had lost the ring, and they had driven an hour each way from their home each day since at 4AM to try to recover the ring. They had also asked numerous other detectorists in the area to help in finding the ring and they had all come up dry.
I met them at the beach this morning at low tide. By now it was a week since the time they had lost the ring and they pointed out where the ring was lost and it was right in the middle of the surfzone. I thought if we find this ring it's going to be a true miracle.
I started out sweeping an intense grid pattern on the 60x60 foot square where we thought the ring was to be. After digging every single whisper I heard on the sovereign we found nothing put pulltabs, nails and a nickel that was down about 12 inches. I got to the top of the beach and decided to switch detectors to the Deepstar that I had been carrying on my back.
I worked the grid at a 90 degree angle down to the water and back up the beach, back and forth. In the middle I hid a loud target. It sounded like a surface target it was so loud and I wondered how I could have missed it with the Sovereign. I scooped two small scoops of sand and rescanned the hole. The target was gone, so I scanned my pile of sand and heard the target and rescooped. I then heard the thunk as something heavy hit the bottom of the scoop. Sifting the sand and I saw the ring, lots of gold and a big sapphire. By then the wife and husband who lost the ring had come over (they came over and met me on the beach at 6AM this morning to help me find the right spot to hunt) and I handed her the ring. She jumped, screamed and was so excited I thought she was going to have a heart attack <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="
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The moral of the story, Deepstar found gold where other detectors did not, and found it easily. I went over this exact spot with the Sovereign and so have numerous other detectorists. This ring has been in the surf for a week and to think we found it in about 3 hours is truly amazing to me.
Eric, there's a husband and wife out there that are *extremely* happy that you make such a killer machine! <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="">
-Jeff
I got an email from the local Whites dealer asking if I were interested in helping a couple who had lost a very sentimental and special ring in the surf. They had lost it last week (just before the 4th of July). The wife was crushed that she had lost the ring, and they had driven an hour each way from their home each day since at 4AM to try to recover the ring. They had also asked numerous other detectorists in the area to help in finding the ring and they had all come up dry.
I met them at the beach this morning at low tide. By now it was a week since the time they had lost the ring and they pointed out where the ring was lost and it was right in the middle of the surfzone. I thought if we find this ring it's going to be a true miracle.
I started out sweeping an intense grid pattern on the 60x60 foot square where we thought the ring was to be. After digging every single whisper I heard on the sovereign we found nothing put pulltabs, nails and a nickel that was down about 12 inches. I got to the top of the beach and decided to switch detectors to the Deepstar that I had been carrying on my back.
I worked the grid at a 90 degree angle down to the water and back up the beach, back and forth. In the middle I hid a loud target. It sounded like a surface target it was so loud and I wondered how I could have missed it with the Sovereign. I scooped two small scoops of sand and rescanned the hole. The target was gone, so I scanned my pile of sand and heard the target and rescooped. I then heard the thunk as something heavy hit the bottom of the scoop. Sifting the sand and I saw the ring, lots of gold and a big sapphire. By then the wife and husband who lost the ring had come over (they came over and met me on the beach at 6AM this morning to help me find the right spot to hunt) and I handed her the ring. She jumped, screamed and was so excited I thought she was going to have a heart attack <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="
">The moral of the story, Deepstar found gold where other detectors did not, and found it easily. I went over this exact spot with the Sovereign and so have numerous other detectorists. This ring has been in the surf for a week and to think we found it in about 3 hours is truly amazing to me.
Eric, there's a husband and wife out there that are *extremely* happy that you make such a killer machine! <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="
">-Jeff