Diver Tony saves the day with successful hunt for wedding ring lost in Perthshire loch

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Perthshire diver jumped to the rescue when a newlywed lost his wedding ring on a New Year dook in Loch Tay. Belfast-based newly weds Sarah and Johnny Phillips were in Kenmore on New Year’s Day when traditionally many intrepid folk go for a dip in the loch.

Johnny jumped in with Sarah’s mum, dad, brother and friend.But to his horror, as he swam in the 3m water, he felt his wedding ring slip off his finger.

Unable to retrieve the ring, the couple posted an appeal on the Aberfeldy Community Notice Board on Facebook. This led them to semi-retired diver Tony May (60) who watched video footage of the dook to pin point the prized possession before taking to the loch in his scuba gear and finding it in 10 minutes.Sarah told the PA: “I was on the shore, videoing my crazy family braving the cold then I saw Johnny’s face fall and he came out, utterly gutted - he’d lost the gold wedding ring I’d given him just six months ago.“We had similar bands made and engraved with ‘Johnny and Sarah 10.07.21’, so this was an absolutely terrible thing to happen.” Sarah (25), a personal banker with Santander and Johnny (33), an engineer and part time soldier, got married in Amulree last July.

Aberfeldy-based photographer Iain Struthers snapped the happy day. Sarah had grown up at Ardeonaig on the south side of Loch Tay and her mum Adele is a classroom assistant at Kenmore Primary.