Numerous citizens of Southport, North Carolina, banded together to help a man whose engagement ring fell into the ocean just before he was going to propose, WECT reports. Matthew Picca, 25, was trying to propose to his girlfriend Kayla Harrity, 24, while they were on vacation with her family at the restaurant Old American Fish.
Harrity says her boyfriend got on one knee, opened the ring box, and the ring immediately fell through the cracks on the deck and disappeared into the water before she even got a chance to look at it or hear him propose. “I covered my face and began to cry because I knew my boyfriend was devastated,” Harrity says.Fortunately for her, a bunch of people quickly jumped into the water to look for it, including Kayla’s brother-in-law, her sister, and Picca. Several men drinking outside who saw the whole thing go down also joined them in jumping in to search for it. People also came out of the woodwork to hand them flashlights and one stranger ran home to get some goggles they could use.
Kalya says it only took “ten flashlights, and five pairs of goggles and over 1.5 hours of searching in the water,” but a man named Kyle Blusher finally found the ring, much to the surprise of everyone. The town locals, who were now basically a part of their proposal, cheered for them to finally propose properly, which he then did, and then went upstairs and bought the men who helped a round of shots.
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