A ship’s cook has survived two days under the sea trapped in an airlock in a sunken tugboat.
Shocked rescue divers found Nigerian Harrison Okene, 29, in the
upturned Jascon-4 which capsized in a heavy Atlantic swell 60 hours
earlier as it went to the aid of a refuelling oil tanker 20 miles off
the coast of Nigeria.
Of the 12 people on board, divers had already recovered 10 bodies and another crew member is still missing.
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.
Speaking in his home town of Warri, a city in Nigeria’s oil-producing
Niger Delta, Okene said he spent another 60 hours in a decompression
chamber until his body pressure was returned to normal.
He said his survival is a “miracle” but the memories of his time in
the watery darkness still haunt him and he is not sure he will return
to the sea.
Read more: Daily Mirror
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