text: Brigham Young UniversityArchive-It Partner Since: Feb, 2013Organization Type: Colleges & UniversitiesOrganization URL: http://lib.byu.edu The L. Tom Perry Special Collections Web Archive at Brigham Young University seeks to enhance scholarship and learning by documenting, providing access to, and persevering the state of Mormonism in all of its variations, as they exist online. The Mormon experience made manifest through culture, expression, history, philosophy, ideology, society, and theology is the main emphasis of this collection. Secondary focus is given to areas of interest such areas as business, education, politics, activism, and philanthropy. ||||| See more of Seth Dixon on Facebook ||||| A Good Samaritan with a heart of gold and a metal detector came to the rescue of a couple that dropped their ring into Loose Park Pond! 
   
   Michael Long heard the story of Seth Dixon and his "splash" proposal to girlfriend Ruth Salas online. 
   
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   Seth had attempted to propose to Ruth on a bridge at Loose Park earlier this month when he dropped the ring onto the bridge, and it fell through into the murky water below. 
   
   "I had a metal detector. I just thought it would just be nice to get up there, help a random couple out and find the ring before someone else found it," said Long. 
   
   
   
   It took him two separate days and hours in the water - but on Saturday - he struck gold - quite literally. 
   
   Using nothing but his metal detector, and a bucket of rocks to hold him down - Long combed the bottom of Loose Park Pond. 
   
   He found around 25 nails, a toy car, and finally, after three hours of searching, he found the ring. 
   
   Long said he just wanted to make an adventure of it - and help someone out at the same time. 
   
   "I knew once I got there the first time it was a lot more challenging than I thought," said Long. "On my second trip I was determined and confident I was within feet of it." 
   
   Long was able to verify that it was Seth and Ruth's ring - and he gave it to a friend of the couple's for safekeeping Tuesday. 
   
   Seth and Ruth excitedly posted about the event Wednesday before their flight back to Kansas City from California. 
   
   In a surprise move - the couple was on Jimmy Kimmel Tuesday night - and Kimmel also gave them a new ring. 
   
   No word yet on what their plans are for the old one. ||||| Loose Park proposal falls through the cracks 
   
   Dating for four years, Kansas City couple Seth Dixon and Ruth Salas were ready to take the plunge into marriage. They just never anticipated having to literally go diving for the engagement ring. Video courtesy of Staci Dabney Photography.
target: – It was the "little plop" heard 'round the world. Seth Dixon and Ruth Salas likely thought they'd never find Salas' $3,000 engagement ring again after Dixon accidentally dropped it off a wooden footbridge and into a pond while proposing in Kansas City earlier this month. But thanks to a man WMUR calls a "Good Samaritan with a heart of gold," the couple now has the ring back—and an extra ring from Jimmy Kimmel to boot. That Good Samaritan, Michael Long, also has a metal detector, and so when he heard about the lost ring, he "thought it would just be nice to get up there, help a random couple out, and find the ring before someone else found it." Long says it took him hours, spread out over two days, to find the ring in Loose Park Pond, pulling up a couple dozen nails and a toy car before he unearthed what he was looking for on Saturday. Per the Kansas City Star, the ring had already been found when Dixon and Salas appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, where they re-created the ill-fated proposal, then accepted a brand-new diamond ring from Kimmel to replace their lost one. (Long says he got in touch with Dixon in California on Monday.) Dixon said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that they alerted Kimmel's staff about Long's discovery once they found out about it—he noted the ring was found while "Ruth and I have been in Los Angeles"—and that "we have been completely honest ... during this entire process." He also notes Kimmel and Co. still insisted they keep the ring. "Now for the next adventure to get married on October 21, 2017!!!!" Dixon wrote.