Find a finger at the bottom of a pool

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When I was a lifeguard, I had to go underwater in the deep end to find a section of a kid's finger. He was going off the diving board and decided to try and do a handstand at the end of it (against the rules...blew my whistle at him but it was too late). His finger somehow got stuck under the end of the board. The finger stayed and his body went into the water. But then we couldn't find the finger on the board.

We called 911 and they told us to look for the section of the finger in the hopes that it would reattach. We skimmed with the net and no dice. It was too deep. As the manager, I had to strap on goggles and go underwater to look for it...latex gloves on of course, as if that was going to help. There was blood in the water, but it had dissipated by the time I entered from the opposite side of the pool...it wasn't enough to cause any kind of pathogen problem for me. So I found the finger at the bottom of the pool, brought it up, put it on ice, and gave it to the EMTs.

They were able to successfully reattach the finger, and the kid wrote me a thank-you letter with the funniest picture I've ever seen. I'll have to see if I can find it.

(Source: Reddit)