USA man drowns while proposing underwater in Tanzania

A man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater at

an idyllic island off the coast of Tanzania, a luxury resort said in a statement

Sunday.

His girlfriend Kenesha Antoine posted on her Facebook page footage of Steven

Weber proposing to her through the window of their underwater hotel room

at the luxury Manta Resort in Zanzibar.

“You never emerged from those depths so you never got to hear my answer,

‘Yes! Yes! A million times, yes, I will marry you!!’,” she wrote Friday in a post

confirming his death.

Her video shows Weber swimming up to the window, and pressing a

handwritten note against it which 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.”

He then pulled out a ring as Antoine squealed with joy while filming.

It is unclear what went wrong during the proposal at Pemba Island, a popular

honeymoon destination.

“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,” Antoine wrote.

“Knowing him, always quick with an off-colour joke, he’s probably entertaining

someone with a story about how he royally screwed up that proposal and died

while being extra.”

DROWNED

Manta CEO Matthew Saus confirmed to AFP in an email Sunday that “a male

guest tragically drowned while freediving alone outside the underwater room”

on Thursday.

“The accident is currently under investigation by the local Zanzibar police

authority.”

The couple were staying in the resort’s famed “Underwater Room”, a $1,700

(1,500 euro) a-night floating structure offshore in crystal clear waters, where

the bed is surrounded by glass windows looking into the ocean.