Who lost a diamond ring in the Gulf?

[Teresa]

Thanks Heather for sending us this info. We hope the owner is found!

Contact Heather at diamondinthegulf@yahoo.com.

nwfdailynews.com

When Heather Tate first discovered the diamond ring floating in the Gulf of Mexico, she thought it was a prank.

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She was paddle boarding out past the second sandbar Sunday afternoon when she noticed what she thought was a piece of trash in the water. She retrieved it to find a diamond ring in a jeweler’s box sealed in a Ziploc bag.

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“I thought, ‘Am I being punked right now?’ ” she remembers thinking. “It was so bizarre. It felt like something out of a movie; very surreal.”

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Tate, who lives in Miramar Beach, has spent the last few days searching for clues about the ring owner’s identity.​

Through Facebook she found a clerk at a local grocery store who sold a cake to a man who told her about losing a ring on his girlfriend’s birthday.

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She has traced the ring back to a local jewelry store and is working with employees to try to find the purchase record.​

Tate says she can’t stop imagining some poor guy out on a kayak or personal watercraft planning to propose, only to reach into his pocket and find he’s lost the ring.

“I’m a hopeless romantic,” she says. “I just can’t get this couple out of my head.

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“I feel like I almost found it for a reason.”​