A person has drowned after saving his fiancee from drowning on the place he proposed to her some days earlier.

According to Metro UK, Travis Valenti, 37, was presumed useless after his kayak crammed with water and overturned on Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park on Friday, a GoFundMe web page arrange for him revealed.

‘Unfortunately, park rangers searched but don’t have a dive crew to look additional,’ states the GoFundMe, including that ‘the family is obviously distraught’.

Travis proposed to his girlfriend Marlene final Wednesday whereas vacationing in Washington state. They went kayaking on the Park two days after he popped the query.

‘It started out as the best trip of their lives and took just a tragic turn that nobody could really see coming,’ Travis’ brother Austin Valenti informed News12 Long Island.

His brother managed to push Marlene to assist her get to security earlier than he acquired into bother himself.

‘Travis (got) her the extra little push that she needed to get safe,’ Austin stated. ‘And they still haven’t discovered him since Friday at 2 or 3pm.’

His kayak started taking in water and he tried to proceed paddling however needed to abandon it and tread water, Fox 13 Seattle reported.

Travis’ fiancee tried to rescue him however her kayak additionally flipped. She made it to shore.

Neither of them had been sporting life jackets, in keeping with Olympic National Park Services officers.

Travis was from Massapequa, a hamlet in Long Island, New York.

‘He can light up a room and make anybody laugh,’ Austin stated.

‘He was just everybody’s favourite man, together with Marlene’s and all of ours, they had been only a lovely couple, they usually had this lovely life deliberate out and it simply will get minimize so quick out of nowhere.’

The GoFundMe had raised greater than $28,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.