Man drowns while proposing underwater. - Didn't hold his breath for an answer

U.S. man dies during underwater proposal, girlfriend says

A Louisiana woman says her boyfriend died while attempting an underwater proposal to her at a Tanzania resort, according to local reports.

www.ctvnews.ca

TORONTO -- A couple from Louisiana had their romantic trip to a Tanzania resort end in tragedy after the man died while proposing to the woman while underwater, according to local reports.

Kenesha Antoine posted a memorial to her partner Steven Weber that included photos and videos of the proposal on Facebook.

In the video, Weber can be seen swimming up to the viewing window of a submerged room that allows guests to look into the ocean. He then holds up a note proposing to Antoine and pulls out a ring before swimming out of frame.


The note read: “I can’t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you. But…everything I love about you, I love more every day! Will you please be my wife? Marry me???”

Antoine wrote in her memorial post that since Weber “never emerged from those depths,” he “never got to hear my answer, ‘Yes! Yes! A million times, yes, I will marry you!!’”

“We never got to embrace and celebrate the beginning of the rest of our lives together, as the best day of our lives turned into the worst, in the cruelest twist of fate imaginable,” she wrote.

The U.S. Department of State is quoted in local reports on Friday confirming that a U.S. tourist had died in Tanzania, but did not offer details.

 

[dirtydeanna96]

He wrote the proposal on reverse sides of a single sheet of ruled notebook paper.
He turned it around, the light shines through, both sides can be seen at once, and the message hardly read
Sounds like he didn't consult anyone before doing this.

 

[break these cuffs]

He wrote the proposal on reverse sides of a single sheet of ruled notebook paper.
He turned it around, the light shines through, both sides can be seen at once, and the message hardly read
Sounds like he didn't consult anyone before doing this.

Yeah, he could have hooked up with a diver and done it legit, but figured he could do it on his. It's likely he could have.. Nothing seems out of sorts from the video of the proposal. Shit, his GF could have dragged him onto the dock and performed CPR if black people knew how to swim or do CPR. It takes roughly eight minutes for brain death from lack of oxygen and the archive for the hotel states they give you a cellphone which gets reception at the "room" for contacting them. Then again, many people can't operate in a crisis even if they've been trained.

 

[Lemmingwise]

It's pretty unusual for some who died of drowning to have the last words "I can't hold my breath long enough...."

 

[repentance]

Ok, so I had to know more about this. They were at the Manta Resort according to this article. It was also the first one that came up when searching underwater window hotel and Tanzania. The website seems to be down, might be purposeful, might be overloaded. The Underwater Room is $1700 a night with a 3 night minimum per archived site. It's a standalone 3 story structure with one underwater level, pictures and description here. Pic of underwater windows:

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I'm real fucking confused.

How the fuck do you drown at a depth which is fine for snorkeling?

 

[break these cuffs]

How the fuck do you drown at a depth which is fine for snorkeling?

The consensuses so far in the thread, that I agree with, is that he either dropped the ring and went searching for it and ran out of air or, more likely imo, is that he fucked around underwater near his limit, swam quickly up to the surface and got caught under/disoriented by the overhanging dock, panicked and drowned. Everything I've heard about scubaing underneath outcroppings or in caves is that it's fucking dangerous because you can quickly become disoriented and not know which way is up. @(‿ˠ‿) suggested he might have even hit his head on the overhang as he was coming up causing further confusion, which I think it completely plausible as well.

Follow on stories will hopefully have more info.

 

[millais]

Or maybe he got caught in some freak undertow current.

 

[break these cuffs]

Or maybe he got caught in some freak undertow current.

The accommodations are located above what is known as a "blue hole". This one is a recess roughly 40ft deep and they get their name from the deep blue color of the water you see when looking at them from above. They're very popular dive location around the world for scuba and snorkel from what I can tell. I have not seen anything about tidal dangers, but I wouldn't expect to from the tourist sites and blogs that are coming up as check this story out.

 

[Slimy Time]

You are telling me that at no point did this guy think to get a scuba tank, or have someone on standby incase something went wrong? If the guy can go to Tanzania, pretty sure he could find someone to help him with that. Or hell, you are in Tanzania, just do the stereotypical dinner on a beach followed by going down on one knee, don't do something exceptional like this.

I feel bad for the fiance/girlfriend. Elation of being proposed to, followed by crippling sadness by his death.

Edit: Just saw the video of where they stayed and the proposal. Nigga just propose to her on the top deck. It looks amazing with the crystal blue waters surrounding it. Must be absolutely heartbreaking for the girlfriend to go from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other in seconds.

 

[Inflatable Julay]

should have asked "will you BURY me?" am I right fellas

 

[repentance]

The accommodations are located above what is known as a "blue hole". This one is a recess roughly 40ft deep and they get their name from the deep blue color of the water you see when looking at them from above. They're very popular dive location around the world for scuba and snorkel from what I can tell. I have not seen anything about tidal dangers, but I wouldn't expect to from the tourist sites and blogs that are coming up as check this story out.

I'm wondering if he actually knew how to swim.

It takes some effort to get to and stay at moderate depth for even a short period of time and if you stop putting in that effort you will naturally float to the surface. Unless this happened at night, the water seems to be clear enough that light would indicate which direction was up and even if that wasn't a good enough indicator he was diving under circumstances where bubbles would be a reliable indicator.

The "getting stuck and panicking" theory seems the most likely one for the moment.

 

[オウム 2]

If she read faster he'd still be alive today.

 

[break these cuffs]

It takes some effort to get to and stay at moderate depth for even a short period of time and if you stop putting in that effort you will naturally float to the surface.

Not so much as you would think unless you have significant bodyfat. Swimming to the bottom of the pool or a shallow pond and seeing how long we could sit there was a common game my brother and I played when we were younger. The fat, or trapped air, is what causes you to float. We'd dive down, which would use up a lot of the oxygen, spend as little energy as we could at the bottom, and then blow out the air from our lungs to sit longer.

He seems very causal during the video. I've been swimming since I was like 4 at private swim lessons, going to the public pool, and vacationing at extended family's camps on lakes all my life. In Marine Corps bootcamp the week of, maybe even two weeks I forget, of swim qual has time for lame ducks, aka black recruits, to learn how to swim. I've seen lotsa people who aren't comfortable swimming or just trying to learn. He didn't strike me as that.

 

[Ugandan Chungus]

I can't say I don't feel at all bad in the slightest over this, but if you're gonna pull stunts such as this without planning for the absolute worst, then what else can I say besides that it's natural selection at it's finest?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Scary times I feel bad for everyone involved. Drowning is a big fear.

Tbh it kind of reminds me of the guy and girl scuba diving and the guy sabotaged her equipment and infamously posed for a pic while you see her dying in the background.

 

[Niggernerd]

Has he not played sonic? You're supposed to run to big bubbles and eat them.
Idiot.

 

[Yotsubaaa]

As stupid as this was, I can't even really joke about it this is really fucking depressing. Especially considering she really did want to marry him.

I know. I'm devastated for her, but at the same time the cold, jaded part of me has to point out that it's really easy for her to answer "Yes! Yes! A million times Yes!" to his proposal now that there's zero chance of follow-through.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

It's really clear he did the whole thing with little forward planning. Even a standard flashy proposal requires some set up - let alone one that runs actual health risks.

If he could afford the fancy holiday, the ring and the room - then he should of been able to rent out an oxygen tank for the time the proposal was going to take and some scuba lessons + a buddy to help out if things went south.

Whole thing reminds me of this scene from Fresh Prince

 

[repentance]

It's really clear he did the whole thing with little forward planning. Even a standard flashy proposal requires some set up - let alone one that runs actual health risks.

If he could afford the fancy holiday, the ring and the room - then he should of been able to rent out an oxygen tank for the time the proposal was going to take and some scuba lessons + a buddy to help out if things went south.

Whole thing reminds me of this scene from Fresh Prince

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WfsXo1i75Rg

He probably didn't consider it "diving", but all he really needed to do was hire someone to buddy him. He didn't even need to have scuba gear himself.

 

[tantric_depressive]

This sounds like a leaked plotline involving The Deep from season 2 of the Boys

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Tragedy aside, here is a lesson for young men and women: things like this, only appeal to the lowest type of basic bitch who wanna brag about it online and become viral. A marriage proposal should be intimate because, there is always a chance she will say "no" and you need certain close approach to make your points. That guarantee a positive answer.

Women, a marriage proposal is the beginning of a new life. If you start this up, it's all going down from there. You're going to set yourself up for a life of disappointments.

Men, instead of spending so much on a proposal, save that money for future.