Casey Brooks lost a virtual needle in a haystack this week after his oversized wedding band fell off in the Atlantic Ocean and no amount of sifting in the water could keep the waves from swallowing up the gold band.

About four hours later, he and his wife were walking at low tide when they saw a woman on the beach with a metal detector. They asked if she had found a wedding ring, but, unfortunately, she had not.

But this woman had successfully helped others in the past so she asked if they knew where they'd lost it. She volunteered to follow them to the location and soon after she went in ankle-deep water she got pinged by her machine.

After a minute or two of digging, miracle of miracles, they found the ring.

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