Needham Woman Watches Engagement Ring Fall into Ocean Before Proposal

A $9,000 engagement ring has been lost at sea after an engagement attempt involving a Needham woman, reports the Cape Cod Times.

Matt Cawley of Dedham had taken to Bass River Beach in S. Yarmouth to propose to his girlfriend, 31-year-old Stacey Scanlon of Needham, when the diamond engagement ring he was holding slipped from his hand and dropped through the cracks of the jetty beneath the couples' feet.

"Before I could even ask, 'Will you marry me?' The ring fell in between these cracks," Cawley told the Cape Cod newspaper.

The couple has since put the incident in perspective, though, and is focused on "making a family together." The ring was also reportedly insured by Cawley's mother last week.