{"id":11838,"date":"2019-09-22T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=11838"},"modified":"2019-09-22T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:13:22","slug":"photos-man-drowns-attempting-to-propose-to-girlfriend-underwater-on-once-in-a-lifetime-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/09\/22\/photos-man-drowns-attempting-to-propose-to-girlfriend-underwater-on-once-in-a-lifetime-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Young man drowns while proposing to girlfriend underwater during their holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A man has drowned attempting to propose to his girlfriend underwater during their \u201conce-in-a-lifetime\u201d holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Weber dived into the ocean to pop the question to Kenesha Antoine through the window of their submerged cabin in Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video footage shows Mr Weber pressing a piece of paper against the glass with the message: \u201cWill you please be my wife?\u201d

He then opened a ring box before swimming up out of view towards the surface.
Ms Antoine, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, posted the film on Facebook on Friday morning with her response: \u201dYes! Yes! Yes!\u201d

However a few hours later she revealed that he \u201cnever emerged from those depths\u201d to hear her answer.
\u201cWe 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 cruellest twist of fate imaginable,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI will try to take solace in the fact that we enjoyed the most amazing bucket list experiences these past few days, and that we both were so happy and absolutely giddy with excitement in our final moments together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Antoine, a lawyer, added: \u201cYou were a bright light to everyone you encountered. You never met a stranger, and you brought so much joy to so many people. You were kind, compassionate, you regularly made me cry with laughter, and you showered me with a love like none I\u2019d ever experienced.\u201d
She also wrote that a few days earlier he had described the holiday as a \u201conce in a once-in-a-lifetime thing that people want to experience before they die\u201d.

\u201cI will find you and marry you in the next lifetime, and the next, and the next, and the next,\u201d added Ms Antoine.\u00a0\u201dI love you so much, and I always will.\u201d

The couple were staying at a resort on Pemba Island off the coast of East Africa.
An official at the US Department of State said they were aware of the death of a US citizen in Tanzania.

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