Maine man who lost class ring while swimming in 1983 finds it in drained quarry
By APFriday, June 18, 2010
Maine man finds lost class ring 27 years later
HALLOWELL, Maine — A Maine man who lost his high school class ring 27 years ago while swimming in a quarry found it right where he thought it was all along.
The owner of the Granite Hill quarry in Hallowell is draining it to restart mining.
When Jason Cottle saw a picture in the Kennebec Journal in Augusta of the draining, he decided to go look for his ring.
The 45-year-old carpenter from Gardiner found it Thursday on a ledge that would have been 35 feet under the waterline — right where he and his friends used to swim.
He also found other jewelry, clothing, keys, four pairs of glasses, unexploded blasting caps, $3 in change and a safe with a hole cut in the side.
Cottle says he also found the diving mask he lost when he went looking for the ring back in 1983.
Information from: Kennebec Journal, www.kjonline.com/
