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A Louisiana man’s elaborate wedding proposal in Tanzania ended up fatal.
Steven Weber reportedly drowned out after proposing to his girlfriend Kenesha Antoine underwater while the couple was on vacation.
Weber and Antoine were staying in a cabin in Pemba Island, Tanzania.
The cabin had a bedroom submerged in the ocean.
Weber proposed Thursday by swimming underwater and holding a hand written note against the bedroom windows, before presenting a ring.
The note read, “I can’t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you,” and asked her to marry him.
He never resurfaced.
Antoine wrote an emotional Facebook post saying, “You never got to hear my answer, ‘Yes! Yes! Million times, yes, I will marry you!!'”
The resort a confirmed fatal accident occurred and say local authorities are investigating.
The body has not been returned to the United States.
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