Heartbreaking final words of man who drowned after proposing to his girlfriend underwater

In 2019 Steven Weber drowned just moments after proposing to his girlfriend Kenesha Antoine underwater while on holiday in Tanzania.

The couple had been staying in a submerged cabin at a holiday resort and Weber swam down to one of the windows while Antoine filmed from inside.

Footage showed him pressing a letter he'd written to her against the window, kept safely in a plastic bag to protect it from the water.

Weber then turned it over to show the message on the other side, a proposal, before producing a ring and swimming back up to the surface.

Sadly that message ended up being the man's heartbreaking final words as he didn't reach the surface alive, drowning tragically.

On one side he'd written: "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!"

Turning the note over Weber revealed that it said: "Will you marry me?"

Following his death, officials at the Manta Resort told the BBC that a man had 'tragically drowned while free diving alone outside the underwater room'.

They said that 'everyone is shaken to the core' by the death, and that when staff responded to a 'problem in the water' they found that 'absolutely nothing could be done' by the time they arrived.

Footage of the proposal was posted to Facebook by Antoine, who also penned a tribute to Weber and said he never got to hear that she would accept his proposal.

She wrote: "There are no words adequate enough to honor the beautiful soul that is Steven Weber, Jr.

"You 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’d ever experienced.

In this footage from 2019, Steven Weber is seen swimming down to his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, who was inside their underwater hotel room in Tanzania.

He presented a note enclosed in a zip-locked bag with the words "will you marry me?" and then revealed the ring to Kenesha.… pic.twitter.com/k20v8FoCHp

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"You never emerged from those depths, so you 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.

"I will find you and marry you in the next lifetime, and the next, and the next, and the next... I love you so much, and I always will."