Francesca Teal was tossing a football with her husband at North Beach in Hampton, N.H., when the ring that once belonged to her great-grandmother slipped off her finger. The couple searched for hours but couldn’t find the ring. In despair, Teal posted about the ordeal on Facebook and asked anyone who might frequent the beach with a metal detector to be on the lookout. Her post was shared thousands of times and got the attention of a man named Lou Asci, 60 of Marshfield, Mass. Asci put on a wetsuit and headlamp and went into the water searching for the ring with his metal detector. The first two days he had no luck. “I don’t take failure all too well,” Asci told the Boston Globe. “I wanted to go back and give it one last shot.” The third day was the charm. He found the ring buried under sand on the ocean floor, he said. He sent Teal a picture, writing in a message: “Please tell me this is the ring so I can finally get off this beach.” It was indeed the missing ring and has been returned to its owner. Asci’s back on dry land too.
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