Canadian kite-surfer Sebastien Allain accidentally lost his gear during a winter surfing trip, but the hours-long search to recover his possessions yielded an unexpected find: a message in a bottle, which happened to also contain a diamond ring. Allain tracked down the sender and learned this was not the first message he has sent, nor the first that was returned to him. Allain was surfing at Nova Scotia’s Chezzetcook Bay on Dec. 6, 2020, when a strong gust of wind flipped his kite into the water. As Allain later explained to CTV News, “[T]he wind was offshore, so it drove the kite out to sea.” He had borrowed the expensive equipment from a friend. Determined to retrieve it, the surfer mapped out the area and waited for the bad weather to die down before swimming through cold, choppy waters to a nearby island to conduct the search. After hours, Allain …