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A man from Nova Scotia, found something he did not expect when he was about to kitesurf: a message in a bottle accompanied by a diamond ring.
Sebastien Allain said he was kitesurfing in Nova Scotia’s Chezzetcook Bay when a strong gust of wind came to “change the experience.”
“There was a strong gust that threw the kite into the water, the wind carried the kite into the sea,” Allain told CTV News.
As explained, Allain investigated the tides and winds and determined that the kite may have ended up on one of several small islands nearby. He finally found it after about four hours of swimming and searching, and while returning to shore he found a bottle floating in the water .
He uncorked the bottle once he got home and discovered a three-page note and a small diamond ring.
“It’s crazy to find a bottle and a diamond ring inside. The funniest thing of all is that I proposed to my fiancee last week “, Allain told the aforementioned media.
The note was written by a man of about 70 years, which revealed that he had been throwing messages in bottles for about 30 years. The man wrote that the attached ring had belonged to his mother, who died in 2018.
Allain and his partner visited the man’s house to bring him gifts and talk about his bottled messages.
“We brought him a box of chocolates and so on,” Allain said.
The man told them that some of his bottles had been found over the years, including one that was discovered by a teacher and that received multiple Christmas cards from the students.