Merlin cadogan
New member
I am writting this because it has been bugging me for three weeks now!
I was searching the beach where I live with my surf master 2 three weekends ago. I was with my 2 kids, my dog and my friend and her 2 kids.
A lady came up to me and asked if I would look for her sons necklace that he had lost.
I was introduced to the unfortunate lad, and I asked him where he last had it.
We retraced his steps to a large bowl in the sand that he and his friends had been jumping in.
I search around the area for about 20 minutes, no signals anywhere! (the sand was really soft and deep as it had all just been blown up the beach in a massive storm from the area I was searching when the lady asked for help).
The lady was giving up hope and packing her families beach stuff up, but I wasn't ready to quit yet!!
I went right in to the bowl, and did an expanding circle search pattern, and up by the opposite side of the bowl I heard a clear signal! The son heard it to, and I dug my sand shovel in to the soft sand and rescanned the area. No signal!!
I shook out the sand in the scoop, and there in the s pop was a decent size 9k gold necklace and a solid 9k gold st. Christopher!
My daughter passed him the necklace and off the family shot!
The mum did say thanks, as she was leaving, but I felt a bit hard done by!
I had found their lost jewellery, but never really got properly thanked:- and no offer of a reward for my 30 minutes of searching.
I was help to help and it did feel good finding it for them, BUT,
Is there a protocol I should have followed before I searched for her? She approached me whilst I was hunting and asked for help, so I assumed she would offer me some sort of reward.
Anyone got any good ideas?
Has this happened to you?
I was searching the beach where I live with my surf master 2 three weekends ago. I was with my 2 kids, my dog and my friend and her 2 kids.
A lady came up to me and asked if I would look for her sons necklace that he had lost.
I was introduced to the unfortunate lad, and I asked him where he last had it.
We retraced his steps to a large bowl in the sand that he and his friends had been jumping in.
I search around the area for about 20 minutes, no signals anywhere! (the sand was really soft and deep as it had all just been blown up the beach in a massive storm from the area I was searching when the lady asked for help).
The lady was giving up hope and packing her families beach stuff up, but I wasn't ready to quit yet!!
I went right in to the bowl, and did an expanding circle search pattern, and up by the opposite side of the bowl I heard a clear signal! The son heard it to, and I dug my sand shovel in to the soft sand and rescanned the area. No signal!!
I shook out the sand in the scoop, and there in the s pop was a decent size 9k gold necklace and a solid 9k gold st. Christopher!
My daughter passed him the necklace and off the family shot!
The mum did say thanks, as she was leaving, but I felt a bit hard done by!
I had found their lost jewellery, but never really got properly thanked:- and no offer of a reward for my 30 minutes of searching.
I was help to help and it did feel good finding it for them, BUT,
Is there a protocol I should have followed before I searched for her? She approached me whilst I was hunting and asked for help, so I assumed she would offer me some sort of reward.
Anyone got any good ideas?
Has this happened to you?