Fishing Captain Loses $25K Gold Chain from His Dad. 2 Local Divers Find It on the Ocean Floor

A Tampa, Fla., sportfishing skipper initially thought a sentimental golden bracelet fixed to him by his begetter was mislaid everlastingly erstwhile it came disconnected his wrist and fell into nan h2o during an excursion past week — until 2 divers were capable to retrieve it from nan water floor. 

“It was conscionable an ecstatic moment, man,” Tyler Feijoo, nan captain, told CBS affiliate WTSP, saying of nan divers, “I beryllium them lifetime." 

On Thursday, Aug. 14, Feijoo and his first mate Ty Colby — some of whom run sportfishing charter company Keep connected Reeling — were connected their alloy scouting locations erstwhile they came crossed immoderate mahi, WTSP and The Miami Herald reported. That was erstwhile Feijoo started throwing bait. 

"When I did it, I conscionable watched nan bracelet do a cleanable circle and conscionable spell consecutive successful nan h2o astir 70 miles out,” Feijoo recalled to WTSP. 

“He was instantly distraught and turns shade white,” Colby told nan Herald of nan infinitesimal Feijoo mislaid nan bracelet — described arsenic an 18K golden Cuban nexus concatenation pinch diamonds that weighed astir 10 ounces. “We benignant of sat location for a while successful silence.”

Feijoo told WTSP that he wore nan bracelet, a family heirloom, each day. Despite losing nan item, he instantly recorded wherever nan bracelet fell into nan h2o connected his GPS successful nan hopes that it mightiness later beryllium recovered. 

On Facebook, arsenic nan Herald reported, Feijhoo put retired a telephone for help: “Need master divers. I mislaid a very sentimental point coming offshore and connection a $5,000 reward if found. I person it marked and should beryllium a easy find!! 160 ft is nan extent I will salary for your clip and expenses if you’re capable to try!”

The station caught nan attraction of divers Chad Tripp and Dalton Conrad. On Friday, Aug. 15, nan group ventured retired to nan marked location 70 miles offshore and 170 feet deep, WTSP reported. 

“We dropped down a marker shot and Tripp went down first. He came up pinch a large Hogball he said was lying successful nan sand, which meant to him nan bracelet should besides beryllium exposed successful nan soil and not nether it,” Colby told nan Herald. 

Later, aft nan vessel was repositioned, Conrad went successful adjacent pinch an underwater scooter. Forty-five seconds later, he resurfaced. Colby recalled, “He past pulled up his sleeve and said, ‘You guys looking for this?’ We went nuts!”

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Aside from emotion ecstatic upon nan betterment of nan bracelet, Feijoo told WTSP that nan group proceeded to person nosy fishing. He besides said that he will ne'er deterioration jewelry while retired sportfishing again. 

“They made it look easy,” Colby said of Tripp and Conrad’s efforts, per nan Herald.  

PEOPLE contacted Feijoo for further remark connected Thursday, Aug. 21.