girlfriend under water. he wrote in a note, 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? sadly, he didn t resurface and his girlfriend went on to post in her facebook posts, you never emerged from those depths so you never got to hear my answer. yes, yes, a million times yes, i will marry you. but of course he had already died. she went on to say, 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 cruellest twist of fate imaginablimaginable. the u.s. state department confirmed a u.s. citizen had died in tanzania. this went across social media. farai sevenzo, cnn.