 They knew roughly where it might have fallen off her finger, but they were having no luck locating it until Eric used his metal detector to find it in the sand. Newsweek says once they had narrowed down the area where she had lost the ring, it took Eric only a couple of minutes to locate the lost item and reunite the woman with it. Of course, the couple couldn't thank Eric enough, but he told Newsweek it was also a great feeling for him to put his hobby to good use.