. >> anna of florida handed it to her husband, brian, when she got into the shower. brian had some trash in his hand. in a thoughtless moment, walked owe over and threw the trash and the ring into the trash can. >> the look of horror in my wife's eyes, my heart sunk. >> don't you go through the trash and get it back out? >> you would, but brian had taken the trash out to the dumpster. >> oh, my goodness. >> you jump in the dumpster and go through the dumpster trash. >> he would have dumpster-defense, but the trash man had already come. >> oh! >> they missed the dumpster by ten minutes. >> this is like something from a sitcom or something. >> and guess where brian went next? >> the dump. >> the dump. >> i was lifting chairs out of the way, broken glass, other sanitary items i don't want to get into. but it was -- horrific to say the least. >> he said he puked a little because of the smell. but he eventually came upon the ring. >> how do you find it in a trash dump? if osama bin laden hadn't have been captured, i would have sent this guy. >> i would have worked close t

florida. >> the husband found his wife's lost engagement ring. but the search involved digging through tons of garbage. here's kelly butler of our miami station, wplv. >> reporter: brian and annaand smiles now. but they weren't when he accidentally threw her $10,000 engagement ring in the garbage. >> i remember her giving it to me after the -- in the shower with my disposable razor. and i knew i pitched it in. >> reporter: what brian did next, was true love. after tracking down the garbage truck that picked up for their neighborhood, he headed here, the dump. >> it carries nearly 9 tons of garbage. if you think about that, that's more than a need until a haystack. >> reporter: before brian headed inside the dump site, he was given some items to keep him safe, like this protective white suit, some goggles, a hard hat, a mask. but nothing to protect him from the stench. >> when i walked in, i got ill. >> reporter: still, brian persevered, knowing his wife of five years would be crushed if he came home empty-handed. incredibly, after about an hour, he found his garbage bag. he then took off his gloves and rooted around in the sludge. >> i pulled it out. and let out the biggest, h

florida is ordering a ban on fishing for certain sharks and it turns out they're disappearing all over the gulf. we sent anna werner out to sea on the trail ofhing sharks of texas. >> reporter: five miles east of south padre island this game warden stretches a crime scene stretching over 3,000 square miles looking for leads. >> looking for anything floating on the surface. coke bottle, milk jug, any type of styrofoam. >> reporter: this jug is a makeshift buoy for gill nets set by mexican fishermen who come into u.s. waters illegally to catch red snapper and sharks. the nets they use are banned in texas. why are they so bad. >> nets indiscriminately catch anything. if a fish swims into a gill net, it's going to die. >> reporter: in september, dunks found a gill net nearly three miles long filled with dead sharks. >> it was almost impossible to count. >> reporter: this one net held 3,000 juvenile sharks-- an entire generation. >> i've never seen that much devastation in one piece of net. >> reporter: it's the use of those nets that is decimating fish stocks in mexican waters. >> we have caught some of these fishermen from south of the border i