Pictured: Becks Martin surfaces holding the dear ring
A BSAC membership in Bedfordshire got here to assistance from a distressed paddleboarder – by discovering his misplaced marriage ceremony ring in an area river!
On Friday 26th July Bedford Scuba Divers obtained a name from Ant Crocker, a 34-year-old firefighter with an issue.
Ant had been paddleboarding down the river Nice Ouse close to Bedford, ending up at Priory Nation Park, the place he and a buddy determined to take a cooling-off swim.
Sensing one thing was rubbing in opposition to his finger, Ant shook his hand earlier than realising the feeling was really his marriage ceremony ring slipping off. Lifting his hand out of the water, a lot to his anguish Ant found the ring had certainly gone to the underside.
A fast sprint residence to seize swimming goggles led to a fruitless try at duck diving right down to search for the ring. At this level Ant started to surprise what he was going to say to spouse Danielle, to whom he had solely been married simply over a yr.
His final resort was a plea for assist by way of WhatsApp to Bedford Scuba Divers. Diving Officer Mags Martin answered the decision, collectively together with her daughter Becks, Tony Pugh, and Tracy Humphries offering shore cowl.
The duo splashed in to 2.5m deep water, with loads of patchy sediment and many little rocks on the underside. Visibility in locations was lower than one centimetre, but inside lower than quarter-hour Becks had discovered the ring, glinting and lodged between two rocks!
[L]: Divers enter the water on the ring search and restoration mission; [R] Left-to-right – Becks Martin, Ant Crocker and Tony Pugh
Becks Martin stated:
That is the third time Bedford Scuba Divers have obtained a request for assist like this – we’ve obtained a 100% success price with marriage ceremony ring restoration! Members of the membership are starting to name me the queen of the ring.
The much-relieved Ant, along with Danielle, took the dive staff for a post-dive drink to say thanks.
Publish-script: with out realising, Becks had dropped her automobile keys on the stroll over to the dive website and solely realised after her return. Fortunately, an area passer-by had discovered them and left them together with her automobile.
That’s karma!
