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A couple from Brisbane, Australia, have been together for two years after meeting through Tinder.

They share a daughter and have a son on the way so a marriage proposal was brewing.

But Luke Aukuso didn’t realise that dropping to his knee and asking for his partner’s hand in marriage would prove quite so tricky.

The 26-year-old man was forced to dive into the ocean after the engagement ring fell through a crack in a pier during his cutesy marriage proposal to Stephanie Lamb.

He’d bought the ring two months before heading out to Hervey Bay, Queensland, where the proposal turned into pure panic.

Their two-year-old daughter, Harpie, tried to open the ring box for mommy, per The New York Post, which described what ensued rather amusingly:

The horrified father grasps at the pier as the diamond ring falls through the cracks and plunges into the ocean below.

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Watching the no-doubt expensive piece of jewelry sink into the depths, he springs to action, kicking off his thongs and seemingly diving into the water below.

The moment was caught on camera and has turned into a viral TikTok video with more than 35 million views.

Here’s a version from YouTube so you can pause at the appropriate moments of panic:

Stephanie has since assured everyone that her husband-to-be thankfully saved the ring.

She explained that “adrenaline hit him hard” and he was able to retrieve the gem after what she claims was a six-metre jump into shallow-ish water during low tide.

“Everything turned out perfect,” she said.

[source:nypost]