‘An epic kind of proposal’: B.C. man pops the question from Galapagos seafloor

A B.C. underwater cinematographer staged an elaborate and unique wedding proposal at the bottom of the ocean and captured it all on film.

Most deep-sea divers will spend a lifetime underwater without finding treasure at the bottom of the sea.

Not so for B.C. couple Cailin Lindsay and Maxwel Hohn, whose recent diving expedition included a treasure chest, a gold ring — and the promise of a lifetime of love.

It was the culmination of an elaborate marriage proposal Hohn, an Emmy award-winning underwater cinematographer, told Global News he spent the better part of a year and a half planning.

“I knew it had to be somewhere that was very grand, it had to be like an epic kind of proposal, but I also had to catch her off guard by surprise, so I decided to do it in Galapagos,” he explained.

“I’d told her that I’d never proposed to her underwater, so she didn’t really have this in the back of her head thinking that this would be the trip that would happen.”

The road to Galapagos was a long and winding one.

Lindsay and Hohn both grew up on the Sunshine Coast, and while both of them are lifelong divers, they never actually met until about eight years ago.

Hohn already knew Lindsay’s father through the diving industry, and during a chance encounter her brother dropped her name while “playing cupid a little bit.”