Lost Wedding Rings. Please Help.

[rke1530]

My wife lost her wedding rings at Lake Monticello. She lost it on Saturday, May 11th.

We are offering a $300 reward for anyone who is willing to help us. We tried to locate an underwater metal detector to rent, but were not successful. My depth finder showed us to be in 10ft of water. If you are not familiar with this lake, when you pass the first bridge, going to this location, under water stumps will appear. Drive with caution.

We were on the north side of the power line tower and even with the first two bridge pillars
My estimated location from Google Maps is Latitude 33.117119, Longitude -95.07872.

I appreciate any help! And good luck if you try to search for them.

Thanks!!

 

[DandyDon]

How unfortunate! Is that in Viginia or Texas, or is there another Lake Monticello...?

 

[ibj40]

How unfortunate! Is that in Viginia or Texas, or is there another Lake Monticello...?

Lake Monticello

In East Texas, Dono, way out of your geographic locale. From my research, not sure why you'd dive there, but obviously they did.

 

[DandyDon]

Well, there is one in Virginia, but maybe you recognized the description? I could not make anything out of the latitude & longitude.

 

[rke1530]

Lake Monticello

In East Texas, Dono, way out of your geographic locale. From my research, not sure why you'd dive there, but obviously they did.

Yes, Lake Monticello in East Texas. And actually, we were bass fishing. We are not divers.

 

[lowviz]

put this: 33.117119 N 95.07872 W into Google Earth...

 

[DandyDon]

put this: 33.117119 N 95.07872 W into Google Earth...

Ah, that works better in G-Earth or G-maps. I figured I was missing something. When I copied from post 1 and put that in Earth, it went to China. I'm not very experienced at such,

Hope you guys can help him out.

 

[Kharon]

You have a better idea where the ring was lost than anyone else. I would suggest that for a lot less than your offered reward ($300 vs $145) you could buy a Vibra-Tector 730 (Vibra-Tector 730 Pulse Induction Metal Detector For Sale - Kellyco Metal Detectors) and do the search & recovery yourself. The ring is worth (gold only without the vast marrital siginificance) way more than the $300 reward and your recovery would depend on someone being sentimental as opposed to greedy (pardon my cynicism - but experience ...). Personally I would get the detector and find the ring myself.

 

[DandyDon]

You have a better idea where the ring was lost than anyone else. I would suggest that for a lot less than your offered reward ($300 vs $145) you could buy a Vibra-Tector 730 (Vibra-Tector 730 Pulse Induction Metal Detector For Sale - Kellyco Metal Detectors) and do the search & recovery yourself. The ring is worth (gold only without the vast marrital siginificance) way more than the $300 reward and your recovery would depend on someone being sentimental as opposed to greedy (pardon my cynicism - but experience ...). Personally I would get the detector and find the ring myself.

It'd be good to get one, then ebay it later - but I'd hate to see an untrained free diver breath-hold diving to 10 feet in murky water, shallow water blackout, entanglement, etc. If I lived in the area, I'd love to try to help. It'd be fun to be the hero in the news story, and I just might take the reward too.

A good buddy team would still be recommended. A volunteer, solo scuba diver died in 14 foot deep lake waters in Georgia last week.

 

[halocline]

I bet there are divers in the area that would help out for quite a bit less than the $300 reward, but it's not going to be easy to find even with a metal detector. Unfortunately by posting the location you've inadvertently helped someone who might want to recover it for themselves. Hopefully you'll find a good neighbor that will help you.