HAMILTON, New Zealand, July 22 (UPI) -- New Zealand rowing officials said a news boat recording footage of the country's Olympic team sank, dropping its load of expensive equipment into the water.

Rowing NZ spokesman Richard Gee said the photo op at Lake Karapiro went horribly wrong when the press boat, which was carrying seven journalists representing both newspapers and TV, began taking on water and sank, Stuff.co.nz reported Tuesday.

Gee said the seven journalists and the boat's pilot were fished out of the water by rowing captains without injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars in media equipment was lost to the lake.

He said investigators do not yet know why the boat sank, as nothing previously appeared out of the ordinary and conditions were not adverse.

"We are just relieved. The water is very cold out there at this time of the year. Equipment is replaceable but the people aren't," Gee said.

Gee said an investigation is ongoing.

Super Bowl ring auction finds score error

PITTSBURGH, July 22 (UPI) -- An eBay auction of two Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl rings from 1975 and 1976 has uncovered a factual error on one of the rings, officials said.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said a die-hard Steelers fan read an article in the newspaper about the auction July 11. The story was accompanied by photographs of the rings and the fan alerted the newspaper that the Super Bowl IX ring, which commemorated the Steelers' 16-6 victory over the Minnesota Vikings, bore an incorrect final score for the divisional game, the Post-Gazette reported Tuesday.

The ring read: "Steelers 32, Bills 6" but the actual final score of the divisional game was Steelers 32, Bills 14.

Minneapolis-based jeweler Jostens said it checked the original ring molds, which are stored by the company in a vault, and found they do indeed bear the incorrect score.

Steelers officials said they were shocked to learn of the error and were surprised no one had noticed the mistake in the more than 30 years since the game.

"I'll be damned," said Joe Gordon, who headed the Steelers public relations and marketing from 1969 to 1998. "I find it almost impossible to believe because so many of us checked it."

Both rings up for auction were purchased by an unknown buyer for more than $66,000.

ACLU may take on cops' saggy pants policy

FLINT, Mich., July 22 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union said it may file suit to challenge a Flint, Mich., police policy of charging wearers of saggy pants with indecent exposure.

The ACLU's Michigan chapter said it is seeking to speak to those targeted by the policy after Flint Police Chief David Dicks said he will not back down from his plan to charge those whose saggy pants expose too much underwear or bare bottoms with indecent exposure, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.

"We are confident that young men in Flint will contact us now that the chief has announced that he won't budge," said Michael Steinberg, legal director of the Michigan ACLU. "If they do, we'll sue. We may have the dubious distinction of being the first saggy pants lawsuit in the country."

The ACLU said Monday was the deadline for Dicks to abandon the policy and they are now seeking to fight it.

However, Dicks said he will not be discouraged by the threat of an ACLU lawsuit. He said Flint police are "going to keep doing what we're doing."

Traps catch turtles but no gator

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., July 22 (UPI) -- A trap set to snare an alligator spotted in a Framingham, Mass., lake has snared two snapping turtles, but its intended target remains elusive, officials said.

Deputy Police Chief Craig Davis said the trap was set in Lake Waushakum by Framingham Animal Control after at least two people recently reported seeing a 5- to 6-foot alligator in the lake, the MetroWest Daily News of Framingham reported Tuesday.

Davis said James Boudreau, 15, reported seeing the alligator on two occasions last week, once while he was accompanied by his 5-year-old brother, who also spotted the reptile. He said police searched the area using flashlights to attempt to catch reflections from the reptile's eyes, but they were unable to find any traces of the creature.

However, the animal control trap has snagged two snapping turtles, Davis said.

"No alligators," he said. "We're still searching for Loch Ness."

The lake's Waushakum Beach was reopened Monday and visitors were given flyers to explain the situation with the gator and everything authorities have been doing to attempt to catch the elusive beast.