Man gets ring back, 20 years later

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two decades after his school ring fell overboard from a cruise ship, a central Florida man is expecting to have the high school treasure in his hands once again.

Tom Whitney says he's been contacted by an Ohio woman whose father-in-law found the ring using a metal detector along Daytona Beach. The woman later found Whitney's name on Facebook.

The 1989 graduate from West Orange High School near Orlando says the ring had fallen overboard from a Port Canaveral-based cruise ship the summer after he graduated.

He never expected to see the ring again.

Whitney, an engineer, is now waiting for the ring to arrive in the mail.