Remember the guy who survived in a sunken ship for 3 days? Rescue video released! - Polidicks

[url]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=51e_1385934620#SMkZV6SaqUPfyWYQ.16[/url] [quote] The incredible story of Harrison Okene's underwater survival [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22892658"]made headlines back in June[/URL], but the equally incredible footage of his rescue has just now surfaced. Okene, the sole survivor of a capsized tugboat that sank into freezing waters off the coast of Nigeria back in May, spent nearly three days in a dark, dank air pocket subsisting on Coca Cola until he was rescued by a diver searching for the bodies of his shipmates. "All around me was just black, and noisy," [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/12/nigeria-sailor-survive-air-pocket"]recalled 29-year-old Okene, the Jacson-4's cook[/URL]. "I was crying and calling on Jesus to rescue me, I prayed so hard. I was so hungry and thirsty and cold and I was just praying to see some kind of light." After 60 hours in a 4ft sq. air pocket 100 feet underwater, Okene was discovered unexpectedly alive by a South African diver on a body recovery mission ([I]around the 5:35 mark in the video above[/I]).[/quote] [URL]http://gawker.com/diver-rescues-man-trapped-in-sunken-ship-for-three-days-1474812896[/URL] The video is absolutely insane to watch. Zero visibility inside a sunken ship hunting for bodies and a live person grabs his hand. Mother of all shit-your-pants moments.

Holy shit. On the flip side, he now has a story he can tell to his grandkids.

Video no longer available due to copyright claim.... Really? Really?? Really you guys? You fucking suck. Edited: oh look, a Liveleak link.

The liveleak video works fine Also [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1330040[/url]

He had to be pretty close to suffocation, nearing three days with only a small room of air. Very lucky individual.

[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;43047561]Also [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1330040[/url][/QUOTE] To be fair this is an article about the video.

[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;43047561]The liveleak video works fine Also [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1330040[/url][/QUOTE] In my defense, I did check the [B]news[/B] section before posting...

[QUOTE=john_pelphre;43047568]He had to be pretty close to suffocation, nearing three days with only a small room of air. Very lucky individual.[/QUOTE] Getting into this situation in the first place is very unlucky.

Watch from 5:25 on the liveleak one

Holy shit the look on his face when he sees the diver. He probably thought he was losing his mind and was as good as dead.

Sounds like Kenny being rescued

Sounds like a real-life Poseiden adventure.

Okay so I faintly recalled that humans need a fairly decent number of cubic meters of air per day to survive, so 4 cubic feet wasn't sufficient, plus the fact that you have CO2 slowly building up. It made me curious as to what went on, which lead me to this article: [url]http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/harrison_okene_s_shipwreck_air_bubble_how_could_he_survive_underwater_for.html[/url] Which is informative on the matter. The short answer? Gas compresses as you descend, making you need less cubic air to survive. CO2 diffuses readily into water, allowing it to be removed from the otherwise closed environment. Technically the space still wasn't a sufficient amount of air, so they think another air pocket must have somehow been connected. Man that had to scary. I can't even imagine. [quote] some of his skin peeled off from soaking in salt water for so long[/quote] Oh that can't be pleasant.

Poor guy. Glad to see he made it out.

Three days in a pitch black area by yourself in a sunken ship... that guys a fucking trooper

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43047776]Sounds like Kenny being rescued[/QUOTE] He's probably using Heliox or Trimix breathing gas.

[QUOTE=OvB;43049598]He's probably using Heliox or Trimix breathing gas.[/QUOTE] whats your professional OvB assessment of the video

[QUOTE=lolwutdude;43049631]whats your professional OvB assessment of the video[/QUOTE] He's lucky as hell.

[QUOTE=GunFox;43047899]Okay so I faintly recalled that humans need a fairly decent number of cubic meters of air per day to survive, so 4 cubic feet wasn't sufficient, plus the fact that you have CO2 slowly building up. It made me curious as to what went on, which lead me to this article: [url]http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/harrison_okene_s_shipwreck_air_bubble_how_could_he_survive_underwater_for.html[/url] Which is informative on the matter. The short answer? Gas compresses as you descend, making you need less cubic air to survive. CO2 diffuses readily into water, allowing it to be removed from the otherwise closed environment. Technically the space still wasn't a sufficient amount of air, so they think another air pocket must have somehow been connected. Man that had to scary. I can't even imagine. Oh that can't be pleasant.[/QUOTE] On the subject of the skin peeling off, I remember reading about a WWII battleship/carrier that sunk and how the survivors floated for days. When they were rescued the saviors had to be extremely careful or else chunks of flesh would fall off the victims' bones. Salt water isn't anything to fuck around with that is for damn sure.

The video description actually says 2 days.

[QUOTE=GunFox;43047899]Okay so I faintly recalled that humans need a fairly decent number of cubic meters of air per day to survive, so 4 cubic feet wasn't sufficient, plus the fact that you have CO2 slowly building up. It made me curious as to what went on, which lead me to this article: [url]http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/harrison_okene_s_shipwreck_air_bubble_how_could_he_survive_underwater_for.html[/url] Which is informative on the matter. The short answer? Gas compresses as you descend, making you need less cubic air to survive. CO2 diffuses readily into water, allowing it to be removed from the otherwise closed environment. Technically the space still wasn't a sufficient amount of air, so they think another air pocket must have somehow been connected. Man that had to scary. I can't even imagine. [/QUOTE] Good article, I was really wondering about that, especially how the pressure affects CO2 buildup. It's a good thing he stayed where he did, even if he somehow managed to swim out and make a break for the surface, it would have been a death sentence after the first 30 minutes or so. If the decompression sickness didn't kill him outright, it would at least incapacitate him enough to drown.

The video in the original link had been taken down due to copyright, here is another I found on youtube. [video=youtube;o87xNDu1Lds]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87xNDu1Lds[/video]

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43047544]Holy shit. On the flip side, he now has a story he can tell to his grandkids.[/QUOTE] That or sell his story and retire, so that he never has to work on a boat ever again.

this would make a great movie [editline]2nd December 2013[/editline] better than that piece of shit movie about the hiker that had to cut off his legs or whatever the fuck that was

I like how it says he didn't have food or water while there's an unopened drink floating in the water.

[QUOTE=Tippmann357;43053015]I like how it says he didn't have food or water while there's an unopened drink floating in the water.[/QUOTE] It was pitch black before the diver got their. Even if a crate of dry food floated by him he wouldn't know. Man props to both the diver and command diver(?). I wasn't even there and I was relaxed from hearing his voice. Also its funny when hes talking to him and ask what he, did and said he was the cook. "There always the ones to survive."

[QUOTE=Tippmann357;43053015]I like how it says he didn't have food or water while there's an unopened drink floating in the water.[/QUOTE] He lived off drinking coke. Sorry, but coke is not water, even if we americans like to think it is. So yes, he went a few days without food or water (though technically there is a percentage of water in coke, but still in terms of hydration coke is pretty shit). edit - And this is listed in the second sentence of the preview of the article, jesus people.

[QUOTE=OvB;43049598]He's probably using Heliox or Trimix breathing gas.[/QUOTE] Not a probability, he is. Divers who's job it is to do these sorts of things are usually almost always using Trimix or Heliox. I'm guessing it's Heliox since it has a larger concentration of Helium (79%) compared to the Oxygen concentration of 21% (0% Nitrogen because it negates having issues with Nitrogren related problems ie: the "bends")which can account for his high pitched voice. His voice has to do with the way sound works in the Heliox substance and through water. Heliox can raise the pitch of the diver's voice making it difficult to discern what their saying unless it's someone used to that kind of speech. Most dive commanders/supervisors use a Helium de-scrambler which reduces the pitch of the divers voice electronically so that it's easier to undestand them.