Man survives 3 days in air pocket on sunken boat

Fozzie Bear

Rescue video

Air pocket survivor

Just unbelievable. Harrison Okene survived 3 days of pitch blackness and silence in an air pocket at a depth of 30 metres, 12 miles out to sea. Deep sea saturation divers on a body recovery mission found him alive. Divers use a helium mix at that depth to breathe so the squeaky voices are a bit surreal.

He was the only survivor from a crew of 12 back in May this year.

3 days practically buried alive waiting for death. Good god I can't imagine the trauma the guy must have suffered.

Quebec Delta Mike

What an amazing video, the "Great Escape" music very apt. As a very occasional sub aqua diver, I still find it scary...but what Harrison achieved there was truly remarkable. Kudos to the professionalism of the rescue team, who kept him calm throughout. This event, and especially the rescue teams efforts, gives one hope for the human race...we can still do good for our fellow man, regardless of the risks to ourselves.

QDM.

Banjo String

Poor fella. That's sure to leave anyone traumatised.

Good news story though.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Fantastic, well worth watching.

Wibbs

That's amazing. The guy himself had some strength of nerve to not just give up. Must be a pretty physically resilient guy to survive too. The cold would have been unreal at that depth, then the trauma of ascending after so long.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

That would genuinely be my worst nightmare. Buried alive and going to drown? No thanks.

Spring Onion

Incredible. And he kept so calm throughout. Amazing.

Snako

Fair play to that diver, some hand randomly grabbing you while submerged in an upside down ship, I would of had a panic attack

Matt_Trakker

Loving the helium voices

Well done to all involved though, great story.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Where would he have got 3 days oxygen from in a small pocket of air?

Canis Lupus

Snako wrote: »

Fair play to that diver, some hand randomly grabbing you while submerged in an upside down ship, I would of had a panic attack

As if being in a ship full of dead bodies wasn't enough having a hand grab you..... poopoo in the wetsuit time I think.

General General

Danger now is that he may die of laughter when he hears someone go on about extreme sports sh!te.

Wossack

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Where would he have got 3 days oxygen from in a small pocket of air?

Matt_Trakker

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Where would he have got 3 days oxygen from in a small pocket of air?

about halfway thru the vid it shows the room, it's pretty big.

CruelCoin

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

Rescue video

Air pocket survivor

Just unbelievable. Harrison Okene survived 3 days of pitch blackness and silence in an air pocket at a depth of 30 metres, 12 miles out to sea. Deep sea saturation divers on a body recovery mission found him alive. Divers use a helium mix at that depth to breathe so the squeaky voices are a bit surreal.

Only for prolonged dives (aka tec dives). Recreational diving is typically done using ordinary air up to 40m (very short periods though at that depth).

Brilliant that they found him though.

Spring Onion

Canis Lupus wrote: »

As if being in a ship full of dead bodies wasn't enough having a hand grab you..... poopoo in the wetsuit time I think.

I got talking to a Dive Master Instructor once and he said that almost anyone could become a dive master if they really wanted to. But he said that completing the training alone does not make them a dive master in his eyes.

He said the training is tough and takes time but he said a real dive master is the one that can keep calm and apply his training during an unexpected incident. It is not until that happens that the person will show whether he is a dive master or not. An example would where both regulator hoses are cut at 40m+.

Sunnyisland

Great to watch,unbeliveble.

How long more would he have lasted ?

Fighting Irish

it sounds like he's keeps saying "yes chef"

conor2469

Amazing story, fair dues to him.
Helium voices are hilarious.

Holsten

Insane!

MadsL

Spring Onion wrote: »

I got talking to a Dive Master Instructor once and he said that almost anyone could become a dive master if they really wanted to. But he said that completing the training alone does not make them a dive master in his eyes.

He said the training is tough and takes time but he said a real dive master is the one that can keep calm and apply his training during an unexpected incident. It is not until that happens that the person will show whether he is a dive master or not. An example would where both regulator hoses are cut at 40m+.

The dive master being the lad that had the foresight to dive with a 3L pony bottle and attached reg I guess?

wp_rathead

amazing vid

GLaDOS

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Where would he have got 3 days oxygen from in a small pocket of air?

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

about halfway thru the vid it shows the room, it's pretty big.

Also, at that depth the pressure would have been higher, meaning the air would have been more compressed. So there would have been more oxygen in the space, than an equivalent space at sea level.

happyoutscan

Easily one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen.

ringadingding

Great video,
Hand on heart, if a hand had grabbed me, that fückers getting harpooned

Jimoslimos

CruelCoin wrote: »

Only for prolonged dives (aka tec dives). Recreational diving is typically done using ordinary air up to 40m (very short periods though at that depth).

Brilliant that they found him though.

Some longer recreational dives are done with nitrox (enriched nitrogen/oxygen mix) but yeah for the type of dive in the video they'd probably have been using a Trimix (Oxygen/Helium and Nitrogen)

Amazing video though. Kudos to the diving crew.

CruelCoin

MadsL wrote: »

The dive master being the lad that had the foresight to dive with a 3L pony bottle and attached reg I guess?

Or the one diving within 2/3 metres of his buddy (assuming he had one)

CruelCoin

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Also, at that depth the pressure would have been higher, meaning the air would have been more compressed. So there would have been more oxygen in the space, than an equivalent space at sea level.

Every 10 metres of water depth adds 1 athomosphere of pressure.
So, diving at 30 metres means you are breathing air at 4 athmospheres.
Your body doesn't consume oxegen any faster at depth if you aren't exerting yourself, so 10m3 of air at 30 metres would last you 4 times longer than 10m3 of air at the surface.
(assuming start point was sea-level, it differs if diving at delines or altitudes)

Nodin

Snako wrote: »

Fair play to that diver, some hand randomly grabbing you while submerged in an upside down ship, I would of had a panic attack

....I would have ruptured the wetsuit with the amount of shite that flew out of me....