The speaker, Rafaela's boyfriend, decides to propose to her with a diamond he extracts himself from the Earth. He travels to the Araguaia River, where the Brazilian Diamantes cooperative is located. He receives a theoretical lesson on recognizing quality diamonds from the cooperative's experienced president, Ivo.
The speaker dives into the river, using a diving suit, to extract rough diamonds from the earth. Despite the challenges, he successfully finds a diamond and brings it to the cooperative. He then buys the diamond, and after going through a series of processes to clean and sort the diamond, he is finally able to present it to Rafaela as an engagement ring.
1. "This here is my girlfriend Rafaela and today I'm going to ask her to marry me but buying a diamond in a jewelry store anyone with some money can do it so I decided that I'm going to extract a diamond from the Earth with my own hands."
2. "To do this, I needed to travel to the Araguaia River on the border between Mato Grosso and Goiás Where the Brazilian Diamantes cooperative is located, the president is Ivo, with over 30 years of experience in legal diamond mining, he gave me a quick theoretical lesson on How to recognize a quality diamond."
3. "Everything that comes from nature is a diamond, then you cut it to transform it into a jewel, a diamond that gives a brilliant shine, it's what's worth more, it's very difficult to find a quality diamond, but when you find 20 thousand reais in that Little rock here, that's crazy."
4. "I'm ready to extract the dramatic I would like to know where is my pickaxe like the cave we enter in the Araguaia bed these are deposits that were made millions and millions of years ago so our system is for diving."
5. "We have the diving suit and it's scary, right? The clothes were super practical and of course very comfortable, let's see how it feels to close it, please bring it here."
6. "Here there is a feeling of loneliness Strange as if I would never be happy in my life again claustrophobic and stinky apparently this armor has been sitting here for over 10 years, there were a lot of cobwebs inside and there's no chance of me wearing this here and diving into the river where you can't see anything for a million of diamonds maybe I said ok enough theory let's go to Rio."
7. "Unlike Minecraft in real life you find diamonds at the bottom of the River We are here in the middle of the forest in this area where there are several deactivated ferries so you can take a little boat like that there and go up to Rio."
8. "Above for 30 minutes is where I will apply my knowledge and training to extract this rough diamond from the earth from Mr. Ivo's farm to the ferry area, it's a 30-minute climb by boat, enough for us to find a waterfall Lost in the Middle of the Araguaia River."
9. "But of course finding diamonds couldn't be a walk in the park, finally I arrived at the diamond mining area, this is where I'm going to buy my diamond, the price is the sun on my forehead, this is a camp, but it's not one. tourist camp is a work camp so you see everything improvised like in a camp."
10. "The Diamond process starts down here, the diver picks up all the biggest ones, you put them in the sixth of the mucapo, this second raft is Larissa and then the guys throw it to the other side so that the diver is free, after the path is clear, the diver takes it all the gravel that was under the stones and place it in front of the Maraca that will suck up all the gravel."
11. "The diver takes it all the gravel that was under the stones and place it in front of the Maraca that will suck up all the gravel. When the gravel is sucked up by the Maraca, it passes through this giant machinery goes up to these sweets through the roof of the vessel and falls here in this machine that is a summarizer here we have a guy who is looking for the biggest stones to see if there isn't a diamond too big to withdraw your money."
12. "All the gravel