奇速英语

订婚戒指遗失在英国最大的湖底，自由潜水员在20分钟内帮忙找到

Viki Patel brought out the question to fiancée(未婚妻) Rebecca Chaukria during a trip to the Lake District. Two days later, the ring slipped off Rebecca’s finger while standing on a pier(码头). “We got up and her hand went forward a bit and the ring completely slipped off into the lake about two metres ahead,” Patel said.

He ran back to the hotel to get shorts and stopped by a water sports place to buy some goggles(护目镜). “When I explained the situation to them, they told me about Lake District Diving and Angus and Declan,” said Patel. Believing time was of the key, Patel went into the “absolutely freezing” water to search for the ring himself. “I lost all hope once I saw how the bottom was all mushy,” he said.

He contacted Angus Hosking, a volunteer at Lake District Diving, who brought along an underwater metal detector. “He was searching around for a while, and I was starting to get worried then he emerged from the water with a smile, saying ‘I think we have it’,” Patel said.

“Fortunately we had a rough idea of where it was,” Hosking said. “If it had been in the middle of the lake, it wouldn’t have been like a needle in a haystack(干草堆), but a needle in the world.”