Missing ring found but not mine!!!

Luis even took a picture of his daughter's boyfriend, Robert Corbo, diving for the ring!

Some of you may remember reading the article I wrote all about my honeymoon in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In it, I described many of the great activities there are to do in the islands… shopping, boating, off-road tours, snorkeling the reefs…

Of course, one of the most memorable moments of the trip was when my husband, Andy, lost his brand new wedding band while snorkeling off Buck Island.

I posted that article on my blog in March (blog.newsok.com/ofinterest). Recently, I received a comment on that posting.

“We found a wedding band while snorkeling off Buck Island this past weekend…Can you provide a description of it and the inscription?” from a reader named Luis.

Ok, I asked myself, what are the odds? This guy is probably just pulling my leg, looking for reward money or something.

But I emailed him anyway, saying that the ring was a shiny dark metallic Tungsten with no inscription other than the manufacturer’s stamp on the inside.

He wrote back saying that he had been on a cruise when some passengers with “flu-like” symptoms meant the ship would have to abandon its planned course to Antigua and dock, instead, in the United States Virgin Islands.

He went on to say that his daughter’s boyfriend had been snorkeling when he found the ring. He even snapped an underwater picture of the find! But this ring, he said, had a personalized inscription that would be meaningful to the rightful owners.

Well, I had figured the odds were against it being our ring. But the incident made me think. First off, how many men’s wedding rings could there be, buried in the sand at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea? Apparently, more than I thought. But maybe, one day, our ring will turn up!

Even more interesting is how the Internet makes the world a much smaller place. Luis lives in Miami. He just Googled some key terms — lost wedding ring, Virgin Islands — and found my little story on my random blog.

Here’s an idea for some entrepreneur out there — a giant, world wide lost and found web site. Another money-making possibility: underwater metal detecting off the coast of Buck Island!