Girl, 6, finds lost wedding ring in pile of seaweed using toy metal detector
At age six, most of us were learning not to pick our nose in public and how to tie our shoelaces.
Little Katie Spence has raised the bar high for parents bragging about their child’s achievements after unearthing a lost wedding ring using her toy metal detector.
Her dad Scott had bought the device in 2012 after his wife, Maria, misplaced her wedding ring during their honeymoon in Corsica.
After failing to locate the missing ring, the couple stored the metal detector in the garage until their daughter got her hands on it.
Scott got a call from his schoolfriend Neil Sneddon who had lost his band in the Aberdour harbour, in Fife, on Sunday.
The white gold ring slipped off his finger when the trainee NDT technician was pulling a boat in.
This is where ‘hero’ Katie stepped in. Using her device, the girl unearthed the ring under a pile of seaweed.
Her dad compared this with finding ‘a needle in a haystack.’ Scott said: ‘Neil called me in a bit of a panic, asking if I could give him a hand.
‘We agreed that it would have to wait till the tide went back out, and I went down with my daughter. She has this wee metal detector that I bought ten years ago.
‘My daughter’s only six so it was before she was born, but when we went on our honeymoon to Corsica, we used it to try and find my wife’s wedding ring she lost on the beach – but we never found it.
’10 years later it’s found a ring but it’s not my wife’s. When the tide went out, we spent quite a long time looking for Neil’s ring and just when we were about to pack up, Katie started shouting “it’s beeping, it’s beeping”.
‘She had got her wee metal detector over the top of it and located it. It was great she found it, it was under a pile of seaweed. I thought it was a really slim chance of finding it. She’s a wee hero.’
Katie was given a cash reward for her efforts, and was so happy she did a little dance on the beach.
Neil, who had spent about three hours looking for his ring, said he could barely believe his eyes.
He added: ‘Katie was overjoyed when it started beeping. We were searching for about an hour and a half with metal detectors but I was looking for around an hour before they arrived.
‘It was a great moment, I couldn’t believe it.’
Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.
For more stories like this, check our news page.