WASATCH COUNTY, Utah – A Utah woman is grateful after local divers recovered her wedding ring, which she lost two weeks ago at a reservoir.
Lindsay Bowen said she lost the family heirloom while playing on a floating obstacle course at Deer Creek Reservoir, KSTU reported.
Monday, she was rejoicing after volunteers found the ring at the bottom of the reservoir.
“Here it is!” Lindsay Bowen told KSTU, holding up her left hand. “To have it on my finger again felt so good.”
The diamond on the ring belonged to Bowen’s grandmother and was designed by her husband. Bowen said she was afraid someone would keep it after finding the heirloom.
“I’ve had my ring for 18 years,” Bowen told the television station. “It’s my grandmother’s diamond and my husband designed it, I realized it held all of my babies and I was just so sad it was gone, I didn’t realize how much I loved it.”
Bowen said her husband made several failed attempts to find the ring, which settled 15 to 20 feet beneath the surface of the reservoir. When those efforts failed, Bowen made an appeal on a Facebook community page.
“If anyone has the equipment, if anyone can go down, I’ll pay you a hundred dollars,” Bowen wrote on social media.
Members of the Wasatch County Search and Rescue’s dive team volunteered.
“They went out for two hours and dove on their own time,” Bowen told KSTU. “They’re volunteers, and they just dove and dove and they couldn’t find it.”
After eight days and two dives, a metal detector and a golf ball helped the divers recover the ring. The divers dropped the ball where the ring was supposedly lost, then used the metal detector to find the ball. And eventually, the ring.
“I started crying,” Bowen told the television station. “(The diver) came up and it was on his pinky finger and he was so excited!”
Bowen said the divers would not accept the reward money.
“They were just happy to help and I was just so happy to be in a community that takes care of each other like that,” Bowen told KSTU. “That memory for me, of people doing good and being recognized for good, I think that’s my favorite part.”
