The man survived under a 30-meter layer of water (3 photos)

Extreme situations turn the whole life of a person.





The young Nigerian who was the sole survivor of the wreck of the tug, apparently, will think about it for the rest of his life.

How did the cook manage to survive for 3 days in a trap at the bottom under a 30-meter layer of water?

Why did he have to chase the lifeguard around the boat himself?

What problems did he face after the rescue?

Everything changed in one minute

A small tug in the company of two more of the same peacefully dragged a tanker with oil on the waters of the Gulf of Nigeria.

Suddenly, a wave capsized the ship. It instantly turned over and began to sink deck down.

At this point, the 29-year-old chef went into his cabin to visit the toilet.

Being in a confined space, Harrison Ojegba Okene with watched in horror as the floor becomes a ceiling, and everyone is flying at it the items on it.

There were shouts from the corridor that the tugboat was sinking.

While Okene managed to get out of the cabin, the ship was already flooded. And slowly sinking deeper and deeper.

In desperation, Okene decided that he had been forgotten and abandoned. To him it seemed that the team escaped, and he was left to die. Seeing in porthole that the ship was already deep, Okene understood that he could not emerge succeed.

Fortunately for him, an air pocket formed under the former floor in the cabin.



Harrison Ojegba Okene

In it, Okene was forced to swim in dirty water full of debris.

Three days trapped

For two days, Okene watched in horror as his air pocket decreased centimeter by centimeter.

Of all the means to survive, he had an accidentally popped bottle of Coca-Cola and two flashlights found in things.

Imi Okene tried to signal through the porthole that he was alive.

But there were no lifeguards.

A day later, the lights went out.

Okene was left in pitch darkness and icy water.

The guy says that the only thing he could do was to pray non-stop.

Help came...and gone

Two days later, Okene saw that another one appeared nearby. ship. He began to shine a searchlight into the water. A diver swam to the tugboat. Delighted, Okene dived into the corridor, trying to swim towards rescuer. But, not seeing where he was, the cook only frantically rushed about in the dark on a sunken boat. He ran out of air, Okene was forced to return to his air pocket.

The rescuer swam away without noticing him.

Frightened lifeguard

The next day, the lifeguard returned looking for the bodies of other sailors.

Realizing that this was his last chance, Okene rushed to flooded corridors from the last forces. He managed to catch up in the flooded compartments of an already sailing rescuer.



Without thinking twice, Okene grabbed him by the shoulder from behind.

Terrified, the lifeguard yelled into the microphone.

Seeing nothing, he did not understand what was happening.

Okene dragged the diver behind him into his pocket.

Only there, the rescuer could see the survivor.

The rescuer did not believe until the last that he was alive Human. Nigerians are very superstitious, he thought he was in front of a zombie. But after drinking Okene with hot water, feeling and passing the picture up to rescue ship, the rescuer calmed down and realized that he miraculously found saved. The rescuer shouted into the microphone: "He's alive!"

Okena had to spend another 60 hours in a pressure chamber in order to stabilize the pressure before he was released.

Nightmares and guilt

Unfortunately, the cook's problems didn't end there. All those around him, even relatives, suspected him of having escaped thanks to black magic.

Okene was afraid to go to the funeral of his colleagues, knowing that the families of the dead might attack him.

Even the priest in the church, to whom Okene came for confession, accused him of a black ritual.

The young man lives with a huge sense of guilt, constantly waking up at night from nightmares.

He vowed not to go near the sea again.