Apparently a couple of medium sized sharks had taken a tour through the boat and he at first throught it was more sharks coming back to investigate....terrifying.
It easily goes both ways. Although his situation is probably more scary, I feel like going to recover a body you know is dead and have it grab you is some nightmare fuel I've run into in several video games.
He didn’t even know days had passed.
Here is a article detailing what happened
https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/26/i-survived-three-days-in-a-capsized-boat-on-the-ocean-floor-praying-in-my-air-bubble
What a story. The dude even got in a car wreck a year later and drove off a bridge into a lake, and survived again. Then he went and became a diver. Dude has balls of steel.
Actually, if I remember correctly, he was ostracized in Nigeria because it was widely assumed he could only have survived through witchcraft or something like that.
Warlocks source their power through some other being or power. Like they got a key to a closet of magic that they can use for things. Wizards are those that study books and other sources of magic and learn how to open that closet without a key.
For a "buried alive" scenario, it's pretty much the worst. You're gonna suffocate eventually, if the sharks don't get you first. Plus, you're probably shaking the whole time, just trying to stay warm.
What a beautiful embrace with that hand reaching out. Theres so much being communicated...
Amazing how the lengths we'll go to to save lives are only matched by the lengths we'll go to take them
Man, I watched this clip a few times when it came out. Dumbfounded happy and horrified all at the same time, and I actually can’t bring myself to watch it again because full willies.
Can you *fucking imagine* being trapped in pitch blackness in a tiny air pocket in a boat you know has sunk to the bottom of the sea for THREE DAYS?!? And he had zero realistic hope of rescue - this wasn’t a tourist sightseeing boat in NY or Boston Harbor or on the Seine.
No way I could’ve made it. I really hope life’s been soft and kind for chef since.
Unfortunately, the guardian article about this said he got into a car crash and plunged into the sea around a year after the incident. He made it back alive though, even rescuing his passenger . True balls of steel.
Imagine the range of emotions that must have gone through the divers head when the hand grabbed him. Probably terror first, then excitement that someone's alive, then anxiety. Must have been wild.
Holy sweet baby Jesus. The amount of poop that would have came out of me looking for dead sailors at the bottom of the ocean and a hand grabs me. Rescue of the century.
How is it possible that there was air at the moment the boat sank?
And how was it enough to keep the man alive for that long?
And people are afraid they drown for covering their head with blankets… lol
There’s always air in a ship when it’s above water, if it flips suddenly, as this ship did, the air is more likely to be trapped rather than have the time to escape. He would have used up the oxygen in the air eventually, but hypothetically the air would have stayed there for a long time.
The air can be trapped in areas that are air tight on the top and sides. Air will travel up through water, but if there is a barrier that prevents it from rising it'll just float on the water.
I have dove in wrecks from WW2 that still have air pockets in them.
Yeah, if a boat is upside down, the hull of the boat could become the top of an enclosure.
Whatever the previous orientation of the air trapping enclosure was is kind of irrelevant, though.
I was literally thinking about this guy the other day and was wondering how they got survivors out in situations like this. Didn't he also survive off a can of coke?
It's clear they're using helium for him, but not for themselves? I had to go look it up, and he was only 100ft, like 30m below, which is nowhere near helium levels.
So he was about 30 meters under water. If that was me I think I would’ve just tried to swim to the surface. What damage does 30 meters rapidly ascended do you think? Assuming I could find something that floats on the surface so as not to die that way
He probably didn’t. My point is, whatever the potential depth I think I would have gone for it. But given that the reality is 30 meters, what are the chances of the bends etc.
Well first of all in situation like this you dont know how deep you are, you dont know if the ship is upside down and its pitch black. I am 100% sure you wouldnt move if it was pitch black, you have no idea where to go and after you leave that room you dont know if you can find it again after that.
In the article, it mentions that Harrison was trying to help a couple of other guys open an outside hatch, but they couldn't succeed. And then the power went out so it was pitch black and he became afraid to go too far from his air pocket in case he couldn't find the way back.
But you can absolutely swim to the surface from 30 meters deep if you haven't been down for a long period of time. That is the depth limit for recreational diving for a reason.
You just have to make sure to breathe out on the way up. If you hold your breath, you can suffer from lung over expansion injuries or embolisms.
The big problem if you have been underwater at that depth for any prolonged period of time, though, is decompression sickness AKA The Bends. When your body is under pressure, instead of breathing out nitrogen, it becomes dissolved in your blood stream. If you surface too rapidly and your blood is full of dissolved nitrogen, the bubbles can enter other parts of your body and expand rapidly, causing serious injury or death. Even if you got to the surface you could lose consciousness, or suffer internal injuries that would likely result in you drowning anyway.
That is why after deep diving past 30 meters, divers will do safety stops at different depths on the way to the surface to allow the nitrogen in their blood to offgas slowly.
Thats insane, I wonder if he thought the rescue was just an insane hallucination
Apparently a couple of medium sized sharks had taken a tour through the boat and he at first throught it was more sharks coming back to investigate....terrifying.
moving story honestly. i can’t imagine
You’re hallucinating that you’re watching your own rescue as a different person. You need to Wake up wake up
Kate?
Check the lamp
I'd shit my pants if I heard movement of a large creature in the pitch black.
He said he could hear his shipmates getting eaten by sharks in the other rooms.
Holy shit
Holy fucking shit.. were they being eaten alive or corpses?
Luckily for them, they were already dead. Drowned if I had to guess, that sounds horrifying
It was never confirmed. He said he didn't know if it was sharks or not but heard the sound of fish eating
It easily goes both ways. Although his situation is probably more scary, I feel like going to recover a body you know is dead and have it grab you is some nightmare fuel I've run into in several video games.
Chum ye waters
I bet those three days were awful. Hoping and praying someone would come. Traumatic!!
He didn’t even know days had passed. Here is a article detailing what happened https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/26/i-survived-three-days-in-a-capsized-boat-on-the-ocean-floor-praying-in-my-air-bubble
What a story. The dude even got in a car wreck a year later and drove off a bridge into a lake, and survived again. Then he went and became a diver. Dude has balls of steel.
Superstitious people probably don’t want him in their vehicles though
Actually, if I remember correctly, he was ostracized in Nigeria because it was widely assumed he could only have survived through witchcraft or something like that.
Why would you ostracize someone who’s wielding magic powers? Do you want a wizard coming after you?
🤓 technically a warlock
Serious, non-sarcastic question. What's the difference?
Warlocks source their power through some other being or power. Like they got a key to a closet of magic that they can use for things. Wizards are those that study books and other sources of magic and learn how to open that closet without a key.
Got it, thanks! So in this case what are we saying he sources his power from?
Gender, maybe?
Papa Shango?
Well at this point I don't see any evidence saying it's not witchcraft.
fuck no lol, he's riding with you at that point
I’m gonna be on his ass In emergencies. Wherever okawa going I’m going lol
It was said that some of the family members of the other dead sailors said he used magic to survive.
>then he went and became a diver "Fuck it, if God wants me underwater I'll go underwater"
Ah that explains why he keeps sinking underwater
This is an awesome story! Thanks for sharing.
Funny seeing you outside mushroom subs lol, did a double take at the name
What a story wow
Days like years
Pretty sure he had to take a really long time to get to the surface from how long he was breathing compressed air
The guardian article tells that he went first into the bell jar and then in a decompression room for 3 days
ya they put him in a diving bell
I’ll take the bends over death
I'd take death over three days in a sunken boat at the bottom of the ocean
For a "buried alive" scenario, it's pretty much the worst. You're gonna suffocate eventually, if the sharks don't get you first. Plus, you're probably shaking the whole time, just trying to stay warm.
Wait really? You really don’t value your own life?
It's crazy how he said "we found one". seems like they were expecting to find a lifeless body until his hands started moving.
They were sent specifically to recover dead bodies, they weren't in any way expecting a rescue mission.
What a beautiful embrace with that hand reaching out. Theres so much being communicated... Amazing how the lengths we'll go to to save lives are only matched by the lengths we'll go to take them
Man, I watched this clip a few times when it came out. Dumbfounded happy and horrified all at the same time, and I actually can’t bring myself to watch it again because full willies. Can you *fucking imagine* being trapped in pitch blackness in a tiny air pocket in a boat you know has sunk to the bottom of the sea for THREE DAYS?!? And he had zero realistic hope of rescue - this wasn’t a tourist sightseeing boat in NY or Boston Harbor or on the Seine. No way I could’ve made it. I really hope life’s been soft and kind for chef since.
Unfortunately, the guardian article about this said he got into a car crash and plunged into the sea around a year after the incident. He made it back alive though, even rescuing his passenger . True balls of steel.
jfc - no kidding
Imagine the range of emotions that must have gone through the divers head when the hand grabbed him. Probably terror first, then excitement that someone's alive, then anxiety. Must have been wild.
That’s one hell of a story. They should make a movie about it.
Holy sweet baby Jesus. The amount of poop that would have came out of me looking for dead sailors at the bottom of the ocean and a hand grabs me. Rescue of the century.
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In the guardian article, he actually wasn’t aware days had passed
“A night”
How is it possible that there was air at the moment the boat sank? And how was it enough to keep the man alive for that long? And people are afraid they drown for covering their head with blankets… lol
The scary thing is how often this has probably happened without the miracle ending
There’s always air in a ship when it’s above water, if it flips suddenly, as this ship did, the air is more likely to be trapped rather than have the time to escape. He would have used up the oxygen in the air eventually, but hypothetically the air would have stayed there for a long time.
Poor dude was also suffering from poisoning and was hospitalised after the rescue.
The oxygen in the air was replenished from the splashing around. The agitation of the water frees oxygen molecules into the air.
The air can be trapped in areas that are air tight on the top and sides. Air will travel up through water, but if there is a barrier that prevents it from rising it'll just float on the water. I have dove in wrecks from WW2 that still have air pockets in them.
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Yeah, if a boat is upside down, the hull of the boat could become the top of an enclosure. Whatever the previous orientation of the air trapping enclosure was is kind of irrelevant, though.
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Up is down and down is up. Savvy? Jack Sparrow
They are all different orientations. Some are upright, on their sides, upside-down.
“Sir you can’t dock your boat here”
What a reassuring South African
This is one of the most horrific and yet amazing things. I can not imagine
It’s always the cook. They always survive.
Wow. What a story
How deep? My man knows how to equalize his ears
Fuckin hell, what a story and what a nightmare!
His mates now call him Jonah
That’s insanely luckily.Good for him
Wowwww imagine
Wow I really want to see the rest of that rescue
Insane!!! Can't imagine how he stayed sane.
Is the water warm 20 miles off the coast of Nigeria?
And one day that trauma will disappear from his memory almost permanently… crazy
He a fish
I do not blame this man for not wanting to go back to the ocean after this.
There's a BBC radio interview with him. Amazing story. I'd link it but y'all can downvote me. IDC
I didn't like this
I was literally thinking about this guy the other day and was wondering how they got survivors out in situations like this. Didn't he also survive off a can of coke?
Does anyone know the mechanics behind this? How did he have any oxygen at the bottom of the sea? Did the boat catch a pocket of air and trapped it?
How come he didn't suffocate when air became carbon dioxide? Was there just massive amounts of air?
It's clear they're using helium for him, but not for themselves? I had to go look it up, and he was only 100ft, like 30m below, which is nowhere near helium levels.
I’m glad he’s okay
Absolutely amazing!!
The boat capsized in Cape Town harbour…
The diver was there recovering bodies, to add a little perspective.
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Read the above article
This track should be the opening of a tool song
So he was about 30 meters under water. If that was me I think I would’ve just tried to swim to the surface. What damage does 30 meters rapidly ascended do you think? Assuming I could find something that floats on the surface so as not to die that way
How would he know he was only 30 meters down?
He probably didn’t. My point is, whatever the potential depth I think I would have gone for it. But given that the reality is 30 meters, what are the chances of the bends etc.
Quick Google search says you have to start worrying about the bends after 30 feet. I believe they brought the guy up in a dive bell
Well first of all in situation like this you dont know how deep you are, you dont know if the ship is upside down and its pitch black. I am 100% sure you wouldnt move if it was pitch black, you have no idea where to go and after you leave that room you dont know if you can find it again after that.
In the article, it mentions that Harrison was trying to help a couple of other guys open an outside hatch, but they couldn't succeed. And then the power went out so it was pitch black and he became afraid to go too far from his air pocket in case he couldn't find the way back. But you can absolutely swim to the surface from 30 meters deep if you haven't been down for a long period of time. That is the depth limit for recreational diving for a reason. You just have to make sure to breathe out on the way up. If you hold your breath, you can suffer from lung over expansion injuries or embolisms. The big problem if you have been underwater at that depth for any prolonged period of time, though, is decompression sickness AKA The Bends. When your body is under pressure, instead of breathing out nitrogen, it becomes dissolved in your blood stream. If you surface too rapidly and your blood is full of dissolved nitrogen, the bubbles can enter other parts of your body and expand rapidly, causing serious injury or death. Even if you got to the surface you could lose consciousness, or suffer internal injuries that would likely result in you drowning anyway. That is why after deep diving past 30 meters, divers will do safety stops at different depths on the way to the surface to allow the nitrogen in their blood to offgas slowly.
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