“I can’t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you,” the note read. “BUT . . . everything I love about you I love more EVERY DAY! Will you please be my WIFE? Marry me??”That's the note. You see him swim away, and — as the woman tells the story on Facebook — he "never emerged from those depths."
It's not clear how the man died.
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I proposed to my lovely wife in the Guatemalan jungle with a howler monkey (live) hat and poison tree frogs on a necklace. I bungee jumped,using native tree vines, to where she sat,unaware, on the jungle floor below. Catching a glimpse of an object hurling at her from above she cried out and raised her hands in a defensive posture. I slipped the ring on her hand before the vines recoiled slinging me into a deep ravine.
Because, after all, you can not really love her unless the proposal is in an exotic region with an exotic delivery with a large dose of danger.
Sheesh.
Heart wrenching.
Got the word - wasn’t us.
Good morning btw.
"Taking the Plunge" taken to a whole new level.
Brave boy. Maybe she was worth it.
was holding his breath, His Superpower? Or, did Neurotypical People try to conversion therapy on him?
My cynicism is in full display in my post above.
His proposal, we are to believe was a complete surprise, yet it was videotaped.
OK, maybe, I guess, some people video everything.
BUT.... at some point in life we all suffer heart wrenching loss. I certainly have.
I can assure you my first thought was NOT, "Which social media platform should I use to post the most painful moment in my life?"
What a terrible thing to happen for his girlfriend.
But he could have done the same thing much more cheaply in Lake Ponchartrain.
"It's not clear how the man died."
Maybe a croc ate him.
That's very sad.
What kind of pay does a residential assistant at a rehab clinic make? Or are trips to Tanzania really cheap? I guess the girlfriend could have a good job and be the one who paid for the bulk of the trip.
It's not that I don't think his death is unfortunate, it's just that I can't help but wonder about these other things. The last person I knew who was taking what appeared to be pricey trips turned out to be an embezzler, so I've become more cynical when I hear about trips that don't match what I would expect from the person's job description.
My wife of 30+ years didn't just propose to me: she begged me.
(that's my story, and I'm sticking to it)
First reaction - very sad.
Secondary reaction - very stupid.
My general thought is that the ordinary proposal is nerve-racking and meaningful enough not to add crazy stuff to it.
Tanzania is an amazing place. But there are a lot of things that can kill you.
Maybe she insisted on discussing it for too long.
maybe HE swallowed the engagement ring
I feel really bad. I'm guessing it was a planned engagement stunt on both their parts because that video was too well done for a surprise. Probably wanted to go viral. Just awful. Seems worse to post it on FB now that we know how it ended.
I used DuckDuckGo to find underwater hotels in Tanzania. There seems to be precisely one, the Mamba Resort near Pemba Island in the Indian Ocean. If he really was eaten, it would most likely have been a shark, but there are lots of other things in the Indian Ocean that are dangerous to humans,
Stunt proposals annoy me. It feels like trying too hard. same with super-expensive ring.
If she really loves you, she will be ecstatic from a bog-standard, by-the-numbers proposal with a ring of moderate expense.
Take her to a lookout, or a park, or a restaurant with dim lighting. You know the drill. That's all you should need.
If you think that's not enough for her, move on.
@Mary Beth (the commenter):
It's not that I don't think his death is unfortunate, it's just that I can't help but wonder about these other things. The last person I knew who was taking what appeared to be pricey trips turned out to be an embezzler, so I've become more cynical when I hear about trips that don't match what I would expect from the person's job description.
Well, there's no body. Just saying...
@Aussie Pundit
you got us thinking...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCTZF61ey0
(yes, shame on us-- a rare moment of weakness)
Anyone know how deep he was at that window? Unless you have experience doing it, staying underwater as long as he did in that video isn't something you want to do for a first time- it is too easy to pass out after periods as short as 20 seconds, especially under physical exertion. I am guessing he drowned.
He blacked out and drowned. I can just about guarantee you. The trigger for your brain to signal that your oxygen level is low and that you need to breathe or you will black out, is not low oxygen blood level. It is a high blood level of carbon dioxide. The problem is that you can be dangerously hypoxic even when you have a low CO2 level. When that occurs, you will simply black out. When you black out thirty feet under water, you die.
Free divers who don't know what they're doing hyperventilate before they dive. They think this increases their blood oxygen level but it does not. What it does do is blow off CO2, lowering the blood CO2 level. See the problem? It is a very dangerous thing to do. I bet this guy saw that on TV or YT or something and did it so that he could increase his time under water to pull off his stunt.
Whatever the cause, he broke the cardinal rule of deep diving: Never dive alone. (And yes, 30 ft is deep enough. Diving problems occur at the depth more often than you might think.)
Did not read do not want to hear do not want to know.
There are a lot of easy ways to pass out and die when free diving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout
Game saves lives.
Maybe the dingos ate him
Untimely deaths are always sad. But glamorized “fabulous” proposals are always stupid, narcissistic, a little pathetic. Put the two together and “pathetic” is the over-riding theme.
I bet he already had the push present picked out.
Blogger exhelodrvr1 said...
Maybe the dingos ate him
9/22/19, 5:00 AM
Got my vote!
If you think that's not enough for her, move on.
I'm inclined to think these kind of stunts are more about him than her.
Her next suitor will have a hard time topping that.
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