The sea gives and the sea takes away. For 8-year-old Miriam Schmidt, the Mediterranean Sea is a giver.

"She saw something shiny in the water and she dove down and picked up a gold ring," said Martin Schmidt, Miriam Schmidt's dad. Advertisement

The family was on vacation in Greece from Germany, and he knew just how to handle that "look what I found," joy.

"We told her to stop yelling, because when we hold up a gold ring and say, 'Who lost this ring?' Everybody shouts, 'Yes, here,'" Martin Schmidt said.

Martin Schmidt took a picture and turned into a detective, helping solve a mystery that took more than a year and spanned an entire ocean.

"We looked up the picture with Google's picture search, and we quickly found out that it is connected to the Notre Dame Prep School," Martin Schmidt

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