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A Fish Is Spotted Wearing Man’s Missing Wedding Ring

today17 May 2021

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Man, this is as surreal as it is heartbreaking. 

 

A snorkeler, Susan Prior, made an extraordinary discovery when she spotted a fish with a wedding band wrapped around its neck while she was swimming in the waters of Norfolk Island, off the east coast of Australia. The ring, however, belonged to Nathan Reeves who lost the piece of jewellery while swimming with his wife Suzie Quintal. 

 

In a bid to track down the owner, Prior took to her local Norfolk Island Community Classifieds page. 

 

Prior said, 

 

“I recalled that someone had posted on our local community social media pages about a large man’s wedding ring that had gone missing in the bay earlier this year, so I decided to see if I could find the possible owner.” 

 

Susan Prior

 

She added,

 

 “It didn’t take long for my suspicion to be confirmed; we now have a poor mullet weighed down with someone’s (expensive) gold wedding ring.”

 

Mrs Quintal is quoted as saying, 

 

“I just couldn’t believe it. I’ve got a few friends on the island and they’re pretty adamant that they’ll find it.”

 

The diver theorised that the fish most likely got caught while feeding on the ocean floor. 

 

“Sand mullets feed by snuffling through sandy bottoms,” she explained. “So a ring, plastic or otherwise would just flip over its head and lodge there.”

 

For the sake of the poor fish, Prior hopes to be able to catch it with a net and in order to remove the ring and hand it over to the couple. 

 

Susan Prior

 

“It is very skittish and keeps on the edge of the school,” she said. “We need to get quite a few of us in there to corral it and then use a throw net to try and catch it. It really is going to be difficult.”

 

She wrote on a website, 

 

“Most of the rings that get caught by these fish are the plastic ones that go around the tops of juice and other liquids that come in plastic bottles. You have to prise them off the neck of the bottle and then snip them to prevent stray ones from ending up like this. Sadly, those of us who swim regularly see this far too often.”

 

*Cover image via Susan Prior 

Written by: Farah Qistina

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