Stranger uses his metal detector to help man find ring lost at sea

A metal detector on the beach.
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While at the beach with his family earlier this week, Dan Cross made a sad discovery when he got out of the water: he had lost his wedding ring while diving in the waves.

Cross told BBC News he spent an hour trying to find the ring, and then looked online for help. Through a directory called Ring Finders, he contacted Richard Higham, who uses a metal detector to try to locate missing items. He met Cross at the beach in Bournemouth, England, on Tuesday, and moved quickly, as tides cause rings to move and go deeper until they are out of the metal detector's range.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.