Miraculous! Nigerian Man Rescued Alive From Shipwreck After Spending 3 Days Under Water [Video]

This is one of those miraculous stories we hear. Though it's been 6 months, the video footage just emerged. It happened on May 26 2013 when a tug boat capsized in the Nigerian coast. Harrison Okene was trapped for three days but was rescued alive. He managed to survive by squeezing into a compartment when the vessel settled upside-down 100 feet underwater.

Harrison Okene is a 29 year old Nigerian. He was the ships cook.

Footage from a helmet-mounted camera on a frogman scouring the wreckage for survivors shows how he came across a hand in the gloomy waters. He thought it was a dead body but the hand, finger tips badly wrinkled from the sea water reaches out and grabs the diver’s glove.
Footage then shows the diver, identified as “Nico”, slowly helping Harrison, who is wearing just a pair of black shorts and looks visibly shaken, into a high-visibility reflective safety harness. The footage was made available to AFP by Netherlands-based DCN Diving, which carried out the rescue operation.

He is seen blowing out his cheeks and sipping gingerly from a bottle of mineral water amidst the debris of the stricken ship, complaining that the water was cold. The sailor is then painstakingly helped into a wetsuit and helmet with breathing apparatus.

In an email, the company said it was releasing the video, as a “tribute to us all working on this amazing rescue”. Ten of Harrison’s crewmates died in the incident, which happened off southern Nigeria’s Escravos, the site of a Chevron oil terminal.

Chevron had said that heavy ocean swells caused the tug to capsize. According to the operator, West African Ventures Limited, the tug was involved in towing a tanker at the time.

Watch the video after the cut..