I got a text from Jonathan, whose wife had dropped a ring over Labor Day weekend while standing in the water. Ironically, she was getting ready to go tubing and took her wedding and engagement rings off to hand them to someone in the boat for safekeeping. The engagement ring made it into the boat, but the wedding ring did not. Although the water was only about mid-thigh in depth, Falls Lake only has a foot or so of visibility even at its clearest, so spotting the ring visually was out of the question. Jonathan immediately dropped a pin on his phone to mark the spot and took pictures of the shoreline where they were. They felt around on the bottom to see if they could locate it, but the bottom was covered in sticks, leaves, mud, and small rocks, which made a “hand-search” all but impossible.
Jonathan contacted me and we made arrangements to ride over in his boat to the spot where the ring had been dropped. Although Falls Lake is relatively free of trash, it isn’t completely clean. After searching for more than an hour, I had three aluminum cans, three pull tabs, two bottle caps, a quarter, and a penny for my efforts. I felt like I had scoured the depth that Jonathan described pretty completely and decided to search a little shallower. At the new depth, I scooped up the ring in about 10 minutes. I thought Jonathan was amazed until he called his wife to tell her – she was over the moon! Definitely a happy ending to this story.
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