Samara and Steven

Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:29 PM

On September 27, 2008, we were heading out from the Rainbow Bay Marina in Oahu preparing for a 100-foot lobster-fishing dive. I was the first one in the water and, since it had been a while since I’d last done it, I was quite nervous (nothing to do with the fact it was also shark season). We ventured downward and, for some reason, I was having a hard time equalizing and I felt like I kept getting stung, but it was tolerable. The last one to the bottom, I was trying to get my buoyancy under control when Steven handed me a small toy chest (a Pirates of the Caribbean replica). My very first thought was, Holy crap! You found something down here already? Jeez, you’re lucky, and handed it back to him. While holding it up to me, he opened the chest and pulled out a red sucker ring. My next thought: What in the world is that doing in there? (Yeah, I know I'm truly clueless sometimes.) Then he took this laminated paper out of his gear which read, “Samara...Will you marry me? Love, Steven. PS How do you like the ring?” OMG...how did I not get this? Since fifth grade, he has said he would propose with a sucker ring.