Can I swim/go underwater with my ring? Also, other questions about when not to wear my ring/precautions?

The safest place to keep your ring is typically on your finger. However, there are a few situations where it makes sense not to wear your ring.While swimming: The cooler temperature of the water will make it more likely that your ring can slip off. Long term chlorine exposure from the treated pool water may embrittle even higher carat gold and will attack the copper in lower carat gold alloys more quickly.At the gym or when working with machinery and in manual labor. You are at much higher risk of the ring catching on something and causing damage.