Engagement ring lost in the sea is found six days later
When you lose your engagement ring in the sea, there is a fear it will be gone forever. Not for this lucky wife! After 6 days, a lot of tracking low tide, mapping out sea levels, extensive metal detecting and a whole community coming together, the engagement ring was found buried within the shingle just underneath the water! This shows determination and perseverance pays off!
On the 27th of August, a lovely sunny day, Luisa went and met her family for a lunch break swim down by the coffee cup. This swim was far from her usual lunch swim, as she was stood in the water and felt her engagement ring slip off! Luisa says 'I will never forget the emotion that I felt, looking down, the water wavey and cloudy thinking, has this just happened!'
In panic, Luisa got as many people as possible with goggles to search but no luck.
We let the lifeguards know, and they said they'd spotted a man metal detectoring near by. My mum and I ran over. What a lovely person he was, with the tides against us, later that evening I went and borrowed equipment from him!
The search began at 12am that evening. The first of low tide since the incident. It was a family affair, brothers, uncle, dad, husband all searching with head torches. Two hours later no luck.
This continued, the next morning, the second low tide, same place, same search but the tides just not quite low enough. Sadly no luck. Each day went by, more searching no luck. I was determined not to give up, and had feeling it would be found. After reading articles on lost rings, many experts said it would fall and bury in the sand where it fell off. This gave Luisa hope. Beach walks with friends soon became metal detecting walks.
Many Facebook posts, communities coming together, people offering to help.
Fast forward to Sunday, 1st of September. Mapping of tides, re-enacting the exact sea height that I walked into the sea, estimating where I was, dropping a bucket to mark my place. We waited for the tide to go down.
Another hour of detecting no luck, the tide is now at it's lowest. Hope began to fade and just one last search on the edge of the water and in the water before we call it a day and the sea starts to rise again. And then suddenly a strong noise from the metal detector. BEEP! Was this the ring? We quickly went to dig up the shingle under the water, first dig, nope no luck, but still a strong noise. Second dig, we pour the shingle on the to sea and suddenly I hear my dad say 'TaDa!!!' and the ring was found.
There was a lot of screaming, running, jumping and family hugs and tears!
We could not believe it! The ring has been found 6 days later, right near to where it slid off, buried in the sea, beneath the shingle.
A day Luisa and her Husband, along with all the family and friends will never forget!