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A Jersey man is celebrating the season of “five golden rings” wearing the wedding band he feared had disappeared forever beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

Jay Bradford, 27, watched in horror as his ring slipped from his finger and into the water off Long Branch on Dec. 12 while working on his pal’s fishing boat.

He broke the news to his wife, Meagan, 29, by text.

“When I got the text, my stomach dropped,” Meagan said. “I didn’t think we would get it back from the bottom of the ocean.

“I had asked him how ­everything was going and he said, ‘The fishing is fine, but I lost my ring.’

“At first I asked him if he was kidding. I thought he was trying to be funny, but he assured me he wasn’t.”

The Point Pleasant man hadn’t taken off the tungsten ring since he and his wife tied the knot on Jun 19.

It went overboard as he was bringing in the anchor.

Jay and his fishing buddy decided to call a diver to find it.

“We knew it was a 50-50 shot and [Jay] asked me if I though it was worth it,” Meagan said. “I told him we would either have a really good story to tell or be back at square one.”

Meagan knew Jay wouldn’t rest until the bauble was freed from Davy Jones’ locker.

“He was really upset because he never took it off,” she explained.

Four days later, the diver used GPS coordinates to pinpoint the boat’s position when the ring dropped into the water. Then he threw iron rings into the 33-foot-deep ocean to see what the current would do.

When he reached bottom, he found a train of iron rings — which led him directly to the wedding band.

“I gave [the diver] the biggest hug I could,” Meagan said, adding that Jay has learned his lesson and has stopped wearing his ring while fishing and working.

“He wants to get the GPS coordinates of where he found it tattooed on his finger, that way he won’t have to go through this again,” she said.