SAVED FROM HIS SUNKEN SHIP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

Are there any good news stories about maritime disasters? The greatest fear for me, a sailor is going down with my ship. It’s a death sentence. Trapped below deck as the ship goes down. A complete nightmare. There’s only been one good news story like this. Harrison Okene A Nigerian sailor was working in the kitchen of the tugboat Jacson-4 when he had an urge to visit the head or toilet. That move may have saved his life. Hi, I’m AS and this is World’s Worst Maritime Disasters, the channel that tells tales of disasters at sea. Please subscribe. Give us a thumbs up and click the bell to receive notification when we post the next video. The tug was pulling a tanker when the disaster happened.
The vessel overturned after being battered by heavy seas on May 26 of 2013 12 miles or 20 kilo-metres off the Nigerian coast. Harrison, survived for almost three days underwater by crouching in an air pocket after the capsize. Eleven other crew members died as the vessel sank. "It was around 5am and I was on the toilet when the vessel just started going down – the speed was so, so fast," Okene said. He wasn’t able to get to an emergency exit hatch and watched in horror as other crew members were sucked into the stormy seas as the vessel sank. The boat sank to the bottom, a depth of about 30 metres or 100 feet. Harrison prayed as water slowly seeped into a one-metre square air pocket in the toilet. It was pitch dark.
Later he was quoted as saying “I was so hungry and thirsty and cold and I was just praying to see some kind of light". It was almost 60 hours later when he heard a hammering noise. Divers from South Africa were at the wreck on a body recovery operation and were shocked to hear a faint hammering on the hull. As a diver's light approached, Okene hesitated to swim outside the air pocket in case he startled the diver. "I went to the water and touched the diver. He himself shivered from fear. So I stepped back and just held my hand in the waters and waved it in front of his camera so they would see the images above deck." Paul MacDonald, an officer on the support vessel who was watching the monitor wrote on Facebook:
"How it wasn't full of water is anyone's guess. I would say someone was looking after him." Once Harrison had been located, there were problems involved in extricating him from the wreck. He had been in 100 feet of water for two days and if rescuers just brought him to the surface he would almost certainly die of the ‘bends” or decompression sickness: DCS; also known as divers' disease, or caisson disease. It is a condition brought on from dissolved gases in the blood coming out of solution forming bubbles inside the body when a diver comes to the surface after a deep dive. According to Wikipedia, “Since bubbles can form in, or migrate to any part of the body, DCS can produce many symptoms, and its effects may vary from joint pain and rashes to paralysis and death. If Harrison panicked and tried to rush for the surface during the rescue, his body would have absorbed potentially fatal amounts of nitrogen. "His heart wouldn't have been able to pump because it would be just so full of gas.” To prevent this, Okene was strapped onto diving equipment, then moved to a diving bell which took him to the surface. He spent two days in a decompression chamber. Okene said, "They told me all the others had died and I cried because I thought I was the only one who had been trapped in the boat". Once back on land, he credited his recovery to daily helpings of his favourite banga soup – a type of palm fruit soup with fish from Southern Nigeria.
It has been reported that the reason the death toll was so high was that the crew had agreed to be locked in their rooms for fear of pirates. I hope you found this video informative. When you subscribe, you can be notified when our next video is posted. I have started a Patreon account to help with the expenses of running a channel like this. You can donate as little as a dollar a month and any amount goes a long way. Everyone who donates will receive a credit in our future videos as well as gifts. Thank you for watching. I’m Allan Stokell

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