Lost £250 wedding ring retrieved after the eight million gallon lake was drained

A husband who had lost his £250 wedding ring while swimming in a lake has got it back after the lake was drained of eight million gallons of water to allow metal detectors to find it. The lucky husband is 47-year-old Matt Walker and he was swimming in Marine Lake, Clevedon, in August when he lost it in the 250m long, 100m wide murky lake.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 October 2016.

The incident happened a few days before his 13th wedding anniversary and he was determined to locate it. He, therefore, contacted a metal detecting club who used their equipment to search the lake when it was drained of eight million gallons of water last week. A team of five volunteers from the 'Somerset Artifact Seekers' agreed to scour the muddy lake for the £250 ring.
In the initial stages they got plenty of bleeps but found only bottle tops, loose change and other bits of metallic junk. Finally, two hours into their search one of the volunteers found it. It was buried about a foot deep in really deep, clay-like mud.
Mr Walker, a father-of-two, from Backwell, was 'delighted' to have his wedding ring back.


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