Bonaire Lost Engagement Ring.

[ggunn]

Clutchcargo once bubbled...
Yup, you don't have to tell me, I always tell her to please leave the ring in the room. One of the things I hate saying is "I told you so."

Not nearly as much as she will hate hearing it from you, and not even remotely as much as you will hate her reaction to your saying it to her. Take it from a guy who has survived 21 years of wedded bliss: suffer the loss along with her.

Don't replace the ring, though; you've done your part when you bought it, and there's no reason to throw yourselves beneath the wheels of an added financial burden you can't afford. It will hurt more than it helps in the long run.

Hopefully the value of having each other as soulmates far outstrips the worth of the lost ring. Tell her that (without the "hopefully" of course) soulfully, looking her in the eye, over a moderately expensive romantic dinner (before the third glass of wine), and get past this bump in the road.

 

[scubasean]

Buy her a new one for your tenth anniversary.

But mention it never more, until then....

 

[eggman131]

Buy her a new one for your tenth anniversary.

And when you do, buy the ring insurance . . . my wife could purposefully drop it off a bridge . . . and I could call and get the $$.

Of course, that would be fraud, but . . .

Man, that sux out loud. Sorry.

 

[caymaniac]

Replace that dang thing with Zirconian, would be a cheap way to get a least a ring back on the finger. No one will actually know but you two. My wife has a couple rings she likes to wear that are like that. All that gulldarn money spent on something real and she gets some Zircon because it looks nice :wacko: . At this point, I guess I really don't care what she wears .

Caymaniac

 

[TedJ]

Did you consider posting a reward and seeing if anyone would look at it as a treasure hunt? Just a thought, but sorry to hear of your loss.

 

[docmartin]

aaaargh. i feel for you. my wife lost hers twice. first time on the beach throwing a football. 15 people could not find it but someone called a friend with a metal detector. in 3 minutes he found the ring.
second time she threw it in the waste bin with a paper towel she had used. at the end of the day in a last ditch attempt to locate it she went through the trash and found it. i would not even have thought of that. needless to say i got it insured after the first incident. best of luck. if you post it some local with a metal detector will have a decent chance of finding it. however, without posting a reward the odds are slim that they would return it.
good luck. it is certainly a good test for a relationship.

 

[jadmcse]

I feel your pain. I lost mine about 9 months after I was married to my wife. To make things worse it was a custom made Neiman Marcus ring that my wife had designed just for me. Sucks to be me! My second ring is just a plain Jane round gold ring. Of course to this day I havent lost that beast. Why oh why couldnt I have lost this one? There are so few precious things in life and rings tend to be in that catagory. The bottom line though is even if you dont find it, you have to remeber that it is in no way a "sign" "omen" or any other damn thing. **** happens, rings get lost, houses burn down and bad things happen to good people. It means nothing. It espeicially doesnt mean that neither of you care about the other or no longer love the other. Yes, rings are symbols of marriage but, the marriage is what counts. The rings only signify the marriage and do not constitue the marriage itself. Sorry to hear it happened to you none the less but, dont let it ruin any portion of your life

 

[Big-t-2538]

Dude...ouch,...

X,XXX $$$ down the crapper....

Honestly, I hope you can replace it...On the other hand however, it can be a wonderufl story in a few years recalling what you liked most about you trip.

 

[sdwho]

So sorry about the ring mishap. Apart from the risk of a ring falling off, another reason not to wear one while diving is the possibility that the stone could get knocked out of the setting if you bang into something, particularly getting in/out of the water.

My wife and I (who got engaged while diving on a liveaboard, did a diving honeymoon, etc etc etc) dealt with the ring thing by purchasing a couple of cheap "hematite" (or whatever it is) bands that we wear on dive trips. Our "dive" rings. If one falls off or breaks, its no big deal. We just get another the next time we go diving.

Seth

 

[Keithflys]

I didn't know where else to post this "lost and found" post.
Here's my sob story.
We were diving in Bonaire last week 10/4 - 11. On Friday, October 10th, what should have been our last dive of the vacation, my fiancé lost her engagement ring after about 20 minutes into the dive. She knew approximately where she lost it so we briefly searched until we ran out of bottom time. We went back to the resort to get more bottles and after a brief surface interval the four of us went back to the search area. Two of our group left after running out of bottom time, but my fiancé and I continued to search. After watching the clock tick up quickly for our decompression stop, we had to abort the search with a 15 minute stop at 10-15'.
I'm still paying for the ring and can't run out and replace it right away. So here's the favor I ask of anybody heading to Bonaire. Please dive the Andrea II and go left. She lost it at about 80'. I know it's a long-shot and makes finding a needle in a haystack seem easy but $4000 doesn't come easy.
thx
Cjh

Found engagement ring in Bonaire. Can you describe?