A ship's cook, Harrison Okene, was rescued from his capsized tug after surviving for two-and-a-half days in an air pocket four feet high and living on sips of Coca-Cola.
New television footage has emerged of his astounding rescue by South African divers in May, who were only expecting to find dead bodies in the upturned wreckage that had sunk to the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Nigeria.
Okene, 29, only drew the attention of the divers when, by
chance, he saw the light of a torch piercing the waters which were gradually
rising around him.
According to Reuters, Okene was aboard the Jascon-4
tugboat when it capsized due to heavy Atlantic waters about 20 miles off the
Nigerian coast. The boat had been working to stabilise an oil tanker being
filled up at a Chevron platform nearby.
He was the only survivor found among
the ship's 12 crew members.
Okene was given an oxygen mask and diver's suit by the rescue team and made it back to the surface 60 hours after the ship had sunk.
Okene was given an oxygen mask and diver's suit by the rescue team and made it back to the surface 60 hours after the ship had sunk.
He spent another 60 hours in a decompression chamber,
where his body pressure was returned to normal. If he had been exposed
immediately to normal surface pressure, he would have died.
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You are not destined to die like that glory to Jesus
ReplyDeletePraise the Lord
ReplyDeleteThank U JESUS,U MERCY has overthrown Judgement over his life,praise u Holy name Amen
ReplyDeleteYou can't just beat Nigerians and their ridiculously funny comments. Nothing about this man's survival tactics, his instincts that made him realise a 4 foot high air pocket was his chance at staying alive.
ReplyDeleteNothing about his signalling technique that made him visible to underwater divers in the pitch darkness of the bottom of the ocean. Nothing about the skill of South African rescue divers (by the way, why South African, why not Nigerian), that made this a survivor story.
All they can comment, is about his destiny not to die like that, glory of God "mercy has overthrown judgement"........chei!
From your comment it shows u don't believe in God but allow those who do to praise their God. It is not of him that runneth or willeth but of Him that showeth mercy.
DeleteTangowisky,u take a lot of whisky nd ogogoro dats why ur comment is ruthless nd baseless mtchhhhhhhhheeewwwww
ReplyDeleteHahaha. U hit d nail on the head
Deleteℓ̊ tank Gos jare for rescuin Ÿ̲̣̣̣̥ø̲̣̣̥u̶̲̥̅̊ ...anybody dat praise God in dis. Kind situation will neva die accidentally! Love Ÿ̲̣̣̣̥ø̲̣̣̥u̶̲̥̅̊ jesus for dis work.
ReplyDeleteGOD is Awesome, greatly to be praised
ReplyDeleteI THANK GOD FOR YOUR LIFE,GOD IS GREAT THANK YOU JESUS. @
ReplyDeletetangowhisky U ARE A BIG FOOL.
Praise master Jesus
ReplyDeleteIf not for God, Okene would ve died in dat cold water, so my sisters n brodas, keep thanking Jesus Christ for his mercy on dis man. @tangowhisky pls allow us to thank our God 4 He's so wonderful n worthy of our praise.
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