LAKE NORMAN, N.C. (WJZY) — A Lincoln County man is thanking his lucky stars that he knew the right person to call when he lost his wedding ring in Lake Norman.

Rob Cartwright was on the water with his kids this weekend when it slipped off his finger while he was pulling his son up by the life jacket.

"My wife's going to kill me," he says he thought. "Maybe."

Cartwright called Philipp Stahala, also known as the Lake Norman Diver.

Stahala has been diving in the lake for 25 years.

He says he's always found all sorts of things below the surface, so he decided to start a small side business out of it.

"[If] people lose anything off their dock, I'll go retrieve it for them and hopefully reunite them with whatever they lost," Stahala said.

The morning after Cartwright called, Stahala was o

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