This might be the only good thing to come out of Superstorm Sandy.
Jim Keelen, 68, of Warren, NJ, lost his high school class ring down the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1972.
Keelen had graduated Watchung Hills Regional High School and gone with friends to enjoy the sun and surf at a house on the beach in Point Pleasant Beach.
“We did what young kids do and I lost my ring that weekend,” Keelen told NJ Patch. “I figured if it was lost on the beach it was toast. I considered it was gone all these years.”
A half century later, Anthony DiMaria-Sadorski “miraculously” found the lost keepsake near his family’s Point Pleasant home during an April walk.
“There’s a spot near my house by a creek where the sunset just looks awesome,” DiMaria-Sadorski, 21, told The Post. “I was walking home and the orange stone caught the glimpse of the sunset — so that’s what caught my eye. It was on the side of the road.”
The ring was near the creek opening and he guessed the jewelry came in on the tide.
But how did it get 26 miles inland from beach in the first place?
Keelen theorized Superstorm Sandy washed it in.
DiMaria-Sadorski scooped up the ring in and put it on his desk — and “forgot all about it” until he was cleaning his room last week.
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“I was like, Oh my gosh, I have to post this,” he said.
DiMaria-Sadorski saw the initials on the inside of the ring and posted his find on Facebook June 8.
“Within hours” the post was shared about “30-35” times — most notably to the Watchung Hills Regional High School alumni group.
One of the group members reached out to Keelen, who verified the band was his and had been lost for 51 years.
“I messaged him [Keelen] on Facebook and he gave me his address. And I just shipped it [the ring] to him and he received it on Monday,” DiMaria-Sadorski said.
The 21-year-old, who graduated last month from Georgian Court University in Lakewood, N.J., doesn’t have a HS class ring himself.
Keelen reportedly brought his recovered but dented treasure to a jeweler to polish the stone and resize it.
DiMaria-Sadorski said the idea of keeping or selling the ring never crossed his mind.
“Treat others the way you want to be treated,” he said.
