It was May 1969 when Al DiStefano stood on a dock on Long Island, New York, watching the sunset.
“I was leaning over the railing,” DiStefano said, “and the ring just slipped off my finger, and I watched it go down into the darkness. And I said, ‘Well, that’s gone. I’m never going to get that back.'”
That class ring was set with a red garnet and engraved with the seal of Fordham University — from which DiStefano was graduating — as well as his name and the year 1969.
It rested underwater for over five decades until earlier this summer, when an electrician named David Orlowski took his metal detector to Cedar Beach in Mt. Sinai, New York…