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Lost Wedding Ring Recovered After Falling Into Ocean Off NJ Shores

POINT PLEASANT, N.J. (CBSNewYork) --   It may just be a Christmas miracle.

Meagan Bradford, of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, is a newlywed who got her fisherman husband, Jay, an indestructible tungsten wedding band that she said was even more expensive than her own diamond ring.

As CBS2's Brian Conybeare reported, Jay was working on this charter boat off the Jersey Shore just four days before Christmas when the ring suddenly went overboard.

"That was what I put on his finger as we said 'I do' and just to know that it was gone so quickly was a little devastating," Bradford said.

"The ring came up over my knuckle, when I pulled on the ring it slid off, hit the bow rail and went right into the water," Jay Bradford said.

Instead of simply buying a replacement wedding ring, the couple decided to go back out in this boat with their friend, a diver, to search the ocean floor.

Using GPS technology, Jay and his friend went back to the exact spot off the shores of Long Branch.

Once they arrived, they dropped the anchor, and the diver dropped metal washers into the 33-foot-deep water.

"Miraculously, the washers fell directly in line with the ring, so as he was collecting the washers, he stumbled right across the ring," Bradford said.

Meagan Bradford said the whole ordeal only took about 10 minutes.

"He said it was just sitting on top of the rocks, almost untouched," she said. "A Christmas miracle."

 

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