Surfer Reunited With Lost Gold Ring After 35 Years

Never wear jewelry to the beach. But, if you do, maybe Larry Feurzeig will find what you lost.

It just might take him a while. Like, 35 years.

It was in 1979 that 17-year-old Robert Fowler went surfing in the Pacific Ocean off Bolinas, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. When he marched back to the shore, he was short one piece of jewelry: his gold class ring from Mount Tamalpais School.

Fowler had long since written off the ring when Feurzeig happened along, using a metal detector on the beach at low tide. He heard a beep – or "more like a ding," he told the newspaper – and discovered a gold ring with the initials MTS and RF.

That was enough for Feurzeig to locate Fowler, to whom he delivered the ring recently in exchange for a bottle of Champagne for the happy ring-bearer from its rightful owner, now 52.

Feurzeig told the newspaper that this was not an act of generosity per se: it's part of the code of treasure hunters, who are exhorted to return found items to their rightful owners if they can be found.

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