In this content, we will take a look at the story of Harrison Okene, who was trapped in a small room and in total darkness at a depth of 30 meters under the sea. It would not be wrong to say that Okene, who was faced with threats such as freezing cold and carbon dioxide poisoning, miraculously survived.
staying in the middle of the ocean what is it like We have seen many works such as movies or books that tell about it. Many people even managed to survive such a difficult situation in real life. But in this content we will tell by Harrison Okene Although the story takes place far from the coast, as in the people we have just mentioned, it is quite different from them.
Because this man tens of meters below, without any diving equipment, had to take shelter in the air pockets of the tug he was in. This struggle for life, full of desperation under water, is just right. took 3 days and when he came out, both how time passed and where he lived. the way it is received was quite surprised. Let’s take a look at her story together.
Harrison was on one of the tugs supporting an oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria where oil operations were conducted, as a cook:
The recently married Harrison is on board. cooking He made a living by doing it. Although the weather looks quite nice on the day they set sail, it will cause disaster for anyone later in the day. from the storm he didn’t know. Moreover, apart from the storm, there was another threat kept in mind: pirates.
In order to be protected from this threat, when the crew rests he was locking his chambers. This was one of the reasons that made it difficult for the crew to escape when the storm came and capsized the ship while everyone was sleeping.
Fortunately, Harrison had gone to the bathroom at that hour:
As his crew mates try to leave the rooms and make their way to the emergency compartments water flowing in The force he exerted made it difficult for Harrison to open the door. For this reason, his friends could not reach And though he called out to them, in the chaos they didn’t hear Harrison. Then, as the door opened, Harrison was swept away by the current and was dragged into a different room.
Dragged into the captain’s room, where a small air pocket is located, Harrison took a lot of blows. It was then that the ship ‘like hit something’:
At that moment, Harrison to the seabed realized that he was sitting. Moreover, the ship had turned upside down. Other teams who reported the sinking ship received help in a short time. But this rescue team’s divers weren’t prepared to stay in the depths for long, so Harrison was shocked. without noticing they went.
both hopeless remainder as well hopeful Things were not going well for Harrison, who was trying to be Although there were many factors threatening his life where he was, he took a deep breath and tried to move to a different point. Swimming in the pitch dark, he made his way to the engineer’s room.
Luckily there was an air pocket here too. In other words, it has moved away from the problem of carbon dioxide poisoning a little. Now there are other problems
Now let’s do a situation assessment. Harrison 30 meters underwater was hungry, thirsty, scared and cold. Among them, he had breathing problems before, but now the room he was in worked a little bit. In order to prevent the problem of cold, he made a meeting with the materials he found around. platform Tried to create. In this way, he kept his body above the freezing sea water. Otherwise, his death a few hours it would last.
Meanwhile, spreading a bad smell There was also. Harrison believed that the source of this odor was the crew who lost their lives. Worse, the surrounding fish towards the corpses He could hear the sound of direction. It’s hard to fight when you think the world has given up on you, and when you’re faced with this situation. But that wasn’t enough for Harrison to give up.
Later, a higher-level diver team came to the scene and the place where the ship sank was determined. But the goal was not to save Harrison:
The purpose of this team is underwater was to collect the corpses. The team, which included 6 divers apart from the technical staff, struggled to open the door that was held by the water for a while. When they entered inside, the search operations started under difficult conditions. Until the team reaches Harrison 4 corpses found it.
They didn’t actually get to Harrison, Harrison got to them (in a scary way)
- Harrison’s found moments
While Harrison is in sound of hoeing and heard the sound of divers coming in. But he wasn’t sure if they were real or if his brain was playing tricks on him. As a result, he realized that he had no choice but to take his chance and took a deep breath and entered the water. Before Harrison did this Nico The diver named had actually passed near him.
But even though Harrison made a noise, Nico moved forward without hearing him. Then Harrison dived into the water and tried to follow. Finally, Nico, Harrison’s saw your hand.
He saw it, but thought it was one of the corpses:
- Harrison’s hand reaches out to Nico
But when Harrison’s hand took his own panicked. At that time, the officer on board said,He’s alive! He’s alive!” can be heard in the video. From there, the divers moved to Harrison’s room and applied medical attention with the help of the technical team. At this point you have to think,Why didn’t they bring it to the surface right away?A question might come up.
To answer this hoist or decompression We need to look roughly at the disease known by its names. The disease in question is caused by passing from places of high pressure (such as the sea floor) to places with low pressure (such as the surface of the sea) suddenly. of the gas It includes mixing with blood and causing conditions such as pain and paralysis. Especially when paired with situations like panic deadly scenarios may arise.
To avoid this issue, they needed to warm Harrison’s body. They also used hot water for this. soon after that oxygen mask they showed him how to use it and brought Harrison to the surface.
He thought he had been down for 12 hours, but it had been exactly 3 days:
After reaching the surface, Harrison pressure He was treated in the decompression chamber so that his issue could be completely settled. Other when out your teammates He thought he might be alive, but from the 12-man crew he was in. just himself survived the incident. Of the others, the bodies of 10 people were collected, but what happened to the body of the remaining 1 is still unknown.
He could not attend the funeral of his teammates and after all he became a diver himself: So how?
where Harrison lives NigeriaIt is a very strict place in terms of religion. When he went to the church and asked the people there why this situation happened to him and why only he was saved, that is, when he started to look for an answer to what happened, according to what he said, He asked if he had done black magic..
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Relatives of his crew members may also suspect this, so Harrison said that the crew’s couldn’t go to his funeral told. Although he swore not to return to the sea after all these events, in 2015 became a professional diver.
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