Boat sinks with man in air bubble on the ocean bottom. Amazing video.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Imagine being on a boat that overturns and sinks to the bottom of the ocean.. Somehow you are in an air bubble and survive as it hits the bottom.. For two days you sit in that tiny air bubble in complete darkness waiting to die.

The video is from one of the divers that were sent down to recover the bodies. Imagine finding a body in a boat that sank days past only to have the hand grab you back. The video of the hand grab and the man when the diver emerges into the air bubble is wrenching... The conversation is between a person on the surface guiding a diver (the high pitched voice) through the boat. For the impatient among you forward it to 4:30 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr9zNznYd98

The video has just surfaced .. Here is text from the original story:

WARRI, Nigeria, June 12 (Reuters) – After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die. Then a torch light pierced the darkness. Ship’s cook Okene, 29, was on board the Jascon-4 tugboat when it capsized on May 26 due to heavy Atlantic ocean swells around 30 km (20 miles) off the coast of Nigeria, while stabilizing an oil tanker filling up at a Chevron platform.

Of the 12 people on board, divers recovered 10 dead bodies while a remaining crew member has not been found.
Somehow Okene survived, breathing inside a four foot high bubble of air as it shrunk in the waters slowly rising from the ceiling of the tiny toilet and adjoining bedroom where he sought refuge, until two South African divers eventually rescued him.

“I was there in the water in total darkness just thinking it’s the end. I kept thinking the water was going to fill up the room but it did not,” Okene said, parts of his skin peeling away after days soaking in the salt water. I was so hungry but mostly so, so thirsty. The salt water took the skin off my tongue,” he said. Seawater got into his mouth but he had nothing to eat or drink throughout his ordeal.

At 4:50 a.m. on May 26, Okene says he was in the toilet when he realised the tugboat was beginning to turn over. As water rushed in and the Jascon-4 flipped, he forced open the metal door. “As I was coming out of the toilet it was pitch black so we were trying to link our way out to the water tidal (exit hatch),” Okene told Reuters in his home town of Warri, a city in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta. “Three guys were in front of me and suddenly water rushed in full force. I saw the first one, the second one, the third one just washed away. I knew these guys were dead.”

What he didn’t know was that he would spend the next two and a half days trapped under the sea praying he would be found.Turning away from his only exit, Okene was swept along a narrow passageway by surging water into another toilet, this time adjoining a ship’s officers cabin, as the overturned boat crashed onto the ocean floor. To his amazement he was still breathing.

Okene, wearing only his underpants, survived around a day in the four foot square toilet, holding onto the overturned washbasin to keep his head out of the water. He built up the courage to open the door and swim into the officer’s bedroom and began pulling off the wall panelling to use as a tiny raft to lift himself out of the freezing water.

He sensed he was not alone in the darkness. “I was very, very cold and it was black. I couldn’t see anything,” says Okene, staring into the middle distance. “But I could perceive the dead bodies of my crew were nearby. I could smell them. The fish came in and began eating the bodies. I could hear the sound. It was horror.”

You can read the rest here: http://gcaptain.com/stuck-in-a-shipwreck-jascon-4-cook-discusses-unlikely-survival/ Edited December 3, 2013 by OnMyWayID

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Absolutely amazing. And what a great choice of music as he he made his way out of the boat and onward to freedom. Bonus points for anyone who knows the movie that this theme song is from. It was one of my favorite movies oh so long ago.

[GandD 5,966]

You have some fun posts. Keep it up!

[Teddy B 17,252]

Absolutely amazing. And what a great choice of music as he he made his way out of the boat and onward to freedom. Bonus points for anyone who knows the movie that this theme song is from. It was one of my favorite movies oh so long ago.

Broke Back Mountain.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Broke Back Mountain.

Nope. The movie is from 1963. Big prize for whoever gets it.

[robbie jeannet 5]

The Dirty Dozen??/..i know its from an old war movie but not sure which one. The Great Escape???

Edited December 4, 2013 by robbie jeannet

[Teddy B 17,252]

Robbie, I think you got it with The Great Escape.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

The Dirty Dozen??/..i know its from an old war movie but not sure which one. The Great Escape???

Robbie, I think you got it with The Great Escape.

Robbie wins!! Within 72 hours, Teddy will send you your $100 winning prize via PayPal.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Robbie wins!! Within 72 hours, Teddy will send you your $100 winning prize via PayPal.

Robbie, please pm me your name, address and bank account number and I will direct deposit your grand prize!

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Robbie, please pm me your name, address and bank account number and I will direct deposit your grand prize!

Better get his social too, just in case.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Better get his social too, just in case.

That is covered in the follow up satisfaction survey which every contestant of Spooky's Games and Brainteasers receives.

[robbie jeannet 5]

sorry we dont except monopoly i mean canadain mooney down here in the south, besides my momma said not to except money from strangers

[GandD 5,966]

Teddy continues to be Canadian.

sorry we dont except monopoly i mean canadain mooney down here in the south, besides my momma said not to except money from strangers

Are you Filipino?

[Teddy B 17,252]

sorry we dont except monopoly i mean canadain mooney down here in the south, besides my momma said not to except money from strangers

If someone threatened to hit me with a bag full of Loonies and Twonies, I'd run for the hills.

Teddy continues to be Canadian.

Are you Filipino?

Must be my accent G.

Edited December 6, 2013 by Teddy B

[robbie jeannet 5]

no, the wife is.