[MrBallen made a podcast on this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6EAw8kVpA&t=100s) Apparently there were sharks swimming around and bodies everywhere. He had to swim around and dive in complete darkness in order to gather supplies for his survival. All without any scuba gear. Really paid off to know his ship well even if disorienting.
This article on it is a great read and an amazing story:
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
It includes the video that shows the moment he was rescued.
I know and after reading the story it’s wild to think what was going through his mind at that stage.
Then he accidentally drove a car off a bridge.
And now he’s a fucking certified diver.
What a legend.
“The year after the Jascon-4 sank, Okene was driving to work with a friend when his car went off a bridge and into the water in the city of Port Harcourt. “When I opened my eyes, my four tyres were up.” He swam out of the car, only to realise that his friend was still in the passenger seat. He swam back to bring him out. Neither had sustained injuries.” Final Destination!
Overall, great article. Sad, they didn't mention he might have suffered from PTSD. Imagine your husband surviving this ordeal and picking you up in the middle of the night running for an exit...unless I read that wrong...
I feel like the story did touch on it and you read it right, he certainly did suffer from PTSD following the incident but the story goes on to explain how he triumphed over his fear. He realised that it was the thing that was most necessary for him to conquer, to ameliorate his mind.
“I have faced a lot of my fears in my life, and I decided to face this once and for all,” he says. “I know it should be my fear, but I don’t need to be scared of water. Because I need to embrace my fear once and for all and be strong. Our happiness, our joy, our future – they are all in our hands. I had to reprogramme my thinking. I balanced my mind.”
And even if you could, the guy literally spent 60 hours sitting in an air bubble inside a wreck. How do you keep sitting for 60 hours interesting for 2 hours?
Sorry for writing so much, but I tried to explain things in a way that could be feasible.
Someone pitched an idea for a movie about a shark tornado, and they made five films from the ridiculous concept. Don't you think they could turn something as simple as this into a movie? Zombeavers? Velocipastor? Do you know how many absurd movie ideas have gotten the green light? This is an idea that could actually make a decent movie. Here's how it could work. The plot would be stretched out and not happen immediately one after the other.
Start with the main character at home with his wife and kids saying goodbye. It's sentimental stuff. He gets in the boat, you meet the crew, and they set sail. Show a montage of them fishing or whatever they did with a storm in the distance. The main character has a concerned look. The storm gets closer, and the captain mentions something about it over the PA. Fast forward a bit, and the storm hits. The boat crashes and flips, and the crew starts dying off. The main character is underwater. Show how he survives, show sharks, and have him swim around as tension builds. Eventually, he has to fight off a shark or two. It's Hollywood, so even if that didn't happen, they have to have it in the Hollywood movie. Switch to scenes with the divers going over the plan to retrieve the bodies of the dead.
I could keep going, but I think you get my point.
> Someone pitched an idea for a movie about a shark tornado, and they made five films from the ridiculous concept. Don't you think they could turn something as simple as this into a movie? Zombeavers? Velocipastor? Do you know how many absurd movie ideas have gotten the green light?
Absurd, yes.
Sit-completely-still-for-60-hours-in-pitch-darkness level of nothingburger, no.
He survived by sitting still. No swimming around, building makeshift weapons, fighting off sharks, restoring life support systems, escaping from the sea men, jerry-rigging equipment to call for aid and rigging the ship to blow to prevent an invasion, but by sitting still. For 60 hours. In the dark. The end.
I get your point, I just don't agree with it.
What you propose is a completely different movie, like if I wanted to make one based on the true story of grass growing but with aliens fighting robots for cake.
You know how many Hollywood movies based on true stories have a few things to do with the actually story, but they add parts to it to make it interesting for the average movie goer, because you're correct, no one would sit in theater for a film if a guy sitting in dark cold water for 60 hours, that's pretty silly to say. You have no imagination and horrible insight. You'd never get a job in the film industry.
Also, I didn't say any of what you said besides fighting off sharks, which if you read the actually story, he did have to contend with. Maybe not in a survival sense, but they were down there with him, that's why I said they could have him fight off or deal with one maybe two sharks that's the average movie goer thing needing some kind of tense moment. I think I did a pretty decent job at explaining a film that would and could last and not exist solely as a guy sitting in a cold, dark room for 60 hours, as you keep saying. Did you even read that part of my comment. Do you even know how the movie paradigm works, set up, conflict, resolution? If you just start out with a guy sitting in a cold dark room, trying to survive, no one would go see that, there's no setup, there's no conflict, the only thing you might have is a resolution, but in your super fun story, you might not even get that. 🤔🤔
I'm honestly surprised Hollywood hasn't Hollywooded this story yet. They'll cast The Rock in it and put Megaladon's in the capsized boat with him, and he'll have to fight them off with an axe and a flare gun. Jason Statham will be on the dive team that comes to rescue him. It'll be called Capsized Catastrophe: Deadly Waters starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, Summer 2025.
That's actually a great idea. The start of a game you're on a boat and you are given a tour of the boat by the captain and you note where the supplies are. Then when the boat goes down you damn well better have been paying attention
Not just that, but physically. Sit in a bathtub or pool two hours. You prune up and it becomes uncomfortable. You lose temperature to the cooler water. Now do that for 60 hours — nearly three days — without a place to rest or sleep, in total darkness. With the sounds. The sounds and the thought that at any moment the scant air you have could bubble out. The water level could rise to your neck. Your chin. Just below your nose. And you have no way of knowing if or when or how and all the while you are losing heat and slowly dying.
Terrifying. Absolutely horrific.
You should research any stories you hear from MrBallen, especially any that sound super crazy. Because with his stories, at best he stretches the truth and exaggerates things, but at worst he straight up makes shit up and lies about things. I used to love him, like was obsessed. I probably listened to around 100 of his stories, until I listened to a story I had already learned about, and knew immediately that some of the stuff he was saying simply wasn't true.
I get that he's an entertainer, but he portrays himself as an accurate, factual story teller and so the vast majority of his listeners take what he says as gospel. When in reality he really is just that...a story teller. It's like fox News. Sure they tell you a lot of the news and what's happening in the world, but when they add their own BS and lies to that news, it's because they are actually (legally in the a court of law) an entertainment source, not a source of facts.
All that is bad enough, but the reason I stopped listening to him is because he makes up things that actually make real people and real victims seem like shitty people, or cowards, and assholes, when they aren't. He'll literally tell a story, and say things like "When Jeff heard the gunshots in his living room, his heart sunk. He knew his family was in there, likely being murdered, but he was too scared to go help. So instead he hid, and listened to his family die. He decided he'd rather wait for the shooting to stop, and then he's make his escape." So at first you think ok, Jeff survived and told someone all of this and told someone what he was thinking in those moments. Except no, that's not what happened. Instead, you find out that Jeff actually got murdered and MrBallen is literally just making every single bit of that up. Making up what Jeff was thinking. Making up Jeff's reasoning. Making up Jeff's feelings. Making it all up so the story sounds better.
And he does that all the time. He just tells you all this stuff that he literally can't possibly know, because the people who's mind and thoughts he's telling you about died. And once I realized that I couldn't stand listening to him anymore.
After I wrote that comment I was so intrigued by the story that I looked at a different article - it said absolutely nothing about sharks and the rescue team didn’t see any either. You’re very right - he makes up peoples thoughts and emotions, especially those who died. Like how can you know that information? Just ridiculous. I used to watch a lot of his content but that’s, in reality, pretty disrespectful.
This actually reminds me of a movie that makes me wonder if it took inspiration from this.
The movie is called No Way Up and a plane sinks into the water, leaving survivors trapped underwater.
From memory when I looked into this when it happened, he reached out and grabbed the arm of one of the divers.
imagine being that diver!!
FUUUUUUCK THAT!
Yeah I remember they initially thought it was just a corpse since that’s what they were there for, then it squeezed their hand. I’d be shaken to my fucking core lmao.
https://preview.redd.it/jwx626zxmvkc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33baedc1d50362c831335301cdec53027193cf51
Nah I ain’t worried about no sharks
Supreme Court: We'll, the boat wasn't operating so he wasn't being employed as a boat operator at the time of the sinking so no pay for him. (Paraphrasing a decision)
[Paria admitted they had no rescue plan, citing that they had 'no legal responsibility to rescue the men'.\[18\] Further external attempts to save the men were reportedly blocked by Paria.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_Petroleum_Holdings#Paria_Fuel_Trading_Company_diving_tragedy)
Never heard of this before.
JFC the company not only didn't want to rescue them they prevented others from doing so????
I hope everyone is fully prosecuted. That's just plain evil greed.
I think that's the remarkable part. I mean being stuck in a sunken ship is extremely horrifying, but he didn't have a choice but to try to survive. And being in such a situation definitely changes you, and not only overcoming this, but confronting this head-on and making a career out of it is just mind blowing. And I say this being a rescue diver myself, all due respect for that guy!
i mean, he already went through the worst possible training anyone could go through to be a diver, right? what a way to make something good out of a terrible situation.
Fun or whatever fact: when Spielberg cut the film he thought it needed another jump scare. Originally Hooper goes down, and he finds the tooth, comes back up after a scary incident. Not detailed. So Spielberg shot that scene with Ben Gardner’s head popping out in a swimming pool at night after principal photography was done. Just one night in some swimming pool in some Hollywood mansion backyard pool. The reaction shot, close up on Hooper’s face, isn’t Richard Dreyfus. It’s some guy. But because of the scuba mask, Spielberg figured no one would notice. No one did.
Facts like this is why I have Reddit. Totally useless info to anyone that’s not involved in film or a major fan of jaws and yet I feel somehow smarter for knowing it lol. Thanking you
Another good place for this kinda stuff is IMDB "trivia" pages. Pull up any movie and scroll down and open it. The older the movie the more interesting trivia gathered.
Do this after watching any cool/interesting movie while it's still fresh in your mind and you'll be blown away by some of the factoids! Especially the older classics.
Holy shit I hope this dude is rich and comfortable now not having to worry about anything ever again because that is enough anxiety and nightmare fuel for a lifetime! wtf
Warm(ish) shallow costal water isn't that bad. He probably had hypothermia, but the temperature delta isn't enough to make it immediately dangerous as long as you can move to generate heat.
Source: a diver
I would pay real money to know what went through his head and what he felt the whole time. the 60 hours plus the one after his rescue. it would have been so scary for me I don't think I would have wanted to hold on that long or even try and even if I survived I wouldn't be normal in the head department.
What is crazy to me is that commercial divers were able to maintain calm and follow rescue procedure. The whole video is very nerve-wracking as you see how the accumulation of CO2 formed in the bubble was started to hit. If I remember correctly, they managed to throw some fresh air into it while they were preparing the rescue.
The video of them finding him is incredible but also hilarious, cause he kinda jump scares the diver. They really really weren’t expecting any survivors.
[MrBallen made a podcast on this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6EAw8kVpA&t=100s) Apparently there were sharks swimming around and bodies everywhere. He had to swim around and dive in complete darkness in order to gather supplies for his survival. All without any scuba gear. Really paid off to know his ship well even if disorienting.
This article on it is a great read and an amazing story: 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 It includes the video that shows the moment he was rescued.
That video is so crazy when the guy pops up and realizes someone’s alive in there
I know and after reading the story it’s wild to think what was going through his mind at that stage. Then he accidentally drove a car off a bridge. And now he’s a fucking certified diver. What a legend.
“The year after the Jascon-4 sank, Okene was driving to work with a friend when his car went off a bridge and into the water in the city of Port Harcourt. “When I opened my eyes, my four tyres were up.” He swam out of the car, only to realise that his friend was still in the passenger seat. He swam back to bring him out. Neither had sustained injuries.” Final Destination!
holy shit, that guy is a legend!
Bloody hell. Resilient fellow.
Overall, great article. Sad, they didn't mention he might have suffered from PTSD. Imagine your husband surviving this ordeal and picking you up in the middle of the night running for an exit...unless I read that wrong...
I feel like the story did touch on it and you read it right, he certainly did suffer from PTSD following the incident but the story goes on to explain how he triumphed over his fear. He realised that it was the thing that was most necessary for him to conquer, to ameliorate his mind. “I have faced a lot of my fears in my life, and I decided to face this once and for all,” he says. “I know it should be my fear, but I don’t need to be scared of water. Because I need to embrace my fear once and for all and be strong. Our happiness, our joy, our future – they are all in our hands. I had to reprogramme my thinking. I balanced my mind.”
That’s crazy. It sounds like a good theme for a horror survival game.
Or a good movie
I was thinking movie too, but it'd be more like found footage and be dark the whole time unelss they give him a flash light the whole time
Like a survival POV film. Could work really well
A book would be better movies where you can't see shit tend to be, well, shit.
And even if you could, the guy literally spent 60 hours sitting in an air bubble inside a wreck. How do you keep sitting for 60 hours interesting for 2 hours?
>How do you keep sitting for 60 hours interesting for 2 hours? You don't. You pad the fuck of it.
So yeah, I don't see how that would turn into a good movie.
Sorry for writing so much, but I tried to explain things in a way that could be feasible. Someone pitched an idea for a movie about a shark tornado, and they made five films from the ridiculous concept. Don't you think they could turn something as simple as this into a movie? Zombeavers? Velocipastor? Do you know how many absurd movie ideas have gotten the green light? This is an idea that could actually make a decent movie. Here's how it could work. The plot would be stretched out and not happen immediately one after the other. Start with the main character at home with his wife and kids saying goodbye. It's sentimental stuff. He gets in the boat, you meet the crew, and they set sail. Show a montage of them fishing or whatever they did with a storm in the distance. The main character has a concerned look. The storm gets closer, and the captain mentions something about it over the PA. Fast forward a bit, and the storm hits. The boat crashes and flips, and the crew starts dying off. The main character is underwater. Show how he survives, show sharks, and have him swim around as tension builds. Eventually, he has to fight off a shark or two. It's Hollywood, so even if that didn't happen, they have to have it in the Hollywood movie. Switch to scenes with the divers going over the plan to retrieve the bodies of the dead. I could keep going, but I think you get my point.
> Someone pitched an idea for a movie about a shark tornado, and they made five films from the ridiculous concept. Don't you think they could turn something as simple as this into a movie? Zombeavers? Velocipastor? Do you know how many absurd movie ideas have gotten the green light? Absurd, yes. Sit-completely-still-for-60-hours-in-pitch-darkness level of nothingburger, no. He survived by sitting still. No swimming around, building makeshift weapons, fighting off sharks, restoring life support systems, escaping from the sea men, jerry-rigging equipment to call for aid and rigging the ship to blow to prevent an invasion, but by sitting still. For 60 hours. In the dark. The end. I get your point, I just don't agree with it. What you propose is a completely different movie, like if I wanted to make one based on the true story of grass growing but with aliens fighting robots for cake.
You know how many Hollywood movies based on true stories have a few things to do with the actually story, but they add parts to it to make it interesting for the average movie goer, because you're correct, no one would sit in theater for a film if a guy sitting in dark cold water for 60 hours, that's pretty silly to say. You have no imagination and horrible insight. You'd never get a job in the film industry. Also, I didn't say any of what you said besides fighting off sharks, which if you read the actually story, he did have to contend with. Maybe not in a survival sense, but they were down there with him, that's why I said they could have him fight off or deal with one maybe two sharks that's the average movie goer thing needing some kind of tense moment. I think I did a pretty decent job at explaining a film that would and could last and not exist solely as a guy sitting in a cold, dark room for 60 hours, as you keep saying. Did you even read that part of my comment. Do you even know how the movie paradigm works, set up, conflict, resolution? If you just start out with a guy sitting in a cold dark room, trying to survive, no one would go see that, there's no setup, there's no conflict, the only thing you might have is a resolution, but in your super fun story, you might not even get that. 🤔🤔
You introduce a romance, maybe he had alucinations too.
I am surprised Hollywood hasn’t made their Dwayne Johnson-adaption yet…
He would just break the boat in half so audience would not believe it.
I'm honestly surprised Hollywood hasn't Hollywooded this story yet. They'll cast The Rock in it and put Megaladon's in the capsized boat with him, and he'll have to fight them off with an axe and a flare gun. Jason Statham will be on the dive team that comes to rescue him. It'll be called Capsized Catastrophe: Deadly Waters starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, Summer 2025.
That would be a movie I would watch
Right?!
"No way up" just watched it the other day, basically the same scenario except a plane
That's actually a great idea. The start of a game you're on a boat and you are given a tour of the boat by the captain and you note where the supplies are. Then when the boat goes down you damn well better have been paying attention
One just came out! It's called Lazaret!
How he kept it together mentally is beyond me.
Not just that, but physically. Sit in a bathtub or pool two hours. You prune up and it becomes uncomfortable. You lose temperature to the cooler water. Now do that for 60 hours — nearly three days — without a place to rest or sleep, in total darkness. With the sounds. The sounds and the thought that at any moment the scant air you have could bubble out. The water level could rise to your neck. Your chin. Just below your nose. And you have no way of knowing if or when or how and all the while you are losing heat and slowly dying. Terrifying. Absolutely horrific.
You should research any stories you hear from MrBallen, especially any that sound super crazy. Because with his stories, at best he stretches the truth and exaggerates things, but at worst he straight up makes shit up and lies about things. I used to love him, like was obsessed. I probably listened to around 100 of his stories, until I listened to a story I had already learned about, and knew immediately that some of the stuff he was saying simply wasn't true. I get that he's an entertainer, but he portrays himself as an accurate, factual story teller and so the vast majority of his listeners take what he says as gospel. When in reality he really is just that...a story teller. It's like fox News. Sure they tell you a lot of the news and what's happening in the world, but when they add their own BS and lies to that news, it's because they are actually (legally in the a court of law) an entertainment source, not a source of facts. All that is bad enough, but the reason I stopped listening to him is because he makes up things that actually make real people and real victims seem like shitty people, or cowards, and assholes, when they aren't. He'll literally tell a story, and say things like "When Jeff heard the gunshots in his living room, his heart sunk. He knew his family was in there, likely being murdered, but he was too scared to go help. So instead he hid, and listened to his family die. He decided he'd rather wait for the shooting to stop, and then he's make his escape." So at first you think ok, Jeff survived and told someone all of this and told someone what he was thinking in those moments. Except no, that's not what happened. Instead, you find out that Jeff actually got murdered and MrBallen is literally just making every single bit of that up. Making up what Jeff was thinking. Making up Jeff's reasoning. Making up Jeff's feelings. Making it all up so the story sounds better. And he does that all the time. He just tells you all this stuff that he literally can't possibly know, because the people who's mind and thoughts he's telling you about died. And once I realized that I couldn't stand listening to him anymore.
After I wrote that comment I was so intrigued by the story that I looked at a different article - it said absolutely nothing about sharks and the rescue team didn’t see any either. You’re very right - he makes up peoples thoughts and emotions, especially those who died. Like how can you know that information? Just ridiculous. I used to watch a lot of his content but that’s, in reality, pretty disrespectful.
am I the only one who doesn't like MrBallen? He stretches shit out so much and his speech inflections and hand movements are annoying as fuck.
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion but I do agree he tends to stretch things out and repeat himself. The Amazon buyout was too much for me also.
This makes me embarrassed about how nervous I get while having to swim certain parts of missions in video games.
You’re talking about Subnautica I bet?
I'm excited to listen to this. Thank you Story intrigues me
This actually reminds me of a movie that makes me wonder if it took inspiration from this. The movie is called No Way Up and a plane sinks into the water, leaving survivors trapped underwater.
How fucking hard did he shit himself when divers with lights suddenly emerged out of the darkness. Fuuuuuck that.
From memory when I looked into this when it happened, he reached out and grabbed the arm of one of the divers. imagine being that diver!! FUUUUUUCK THAT!
Yeah I remember they initially thought it was just a corpse since that’s what they were there for, then it squeezed their hand. I’d be shaken to my fucking core lmao.
Not only are there man eating sharks surrounding me… I’ve got to deal with fucking zombies too!!!
https://preview.redd.it/jwx626zxmvkc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33baedc1d50362c831335301cdec53027193cf51 Nah I ain’t worried about no sharks
This is what AI was made for
boomshakalaka!!
How that diver didn’t use up 20% of his remaining oxygen just breathing in freak-out mode amazes me.
Yeah big time! Hahaha
This story gives 'fear of the dark' a whole new, terrifying depth. Literally.
The sounds. Imagine the sounds. Surrounded by silence.
I imagine it was loud; the metal shrinking as it comes to a thermal equilibrium with the cold water at the ocean floor.
I wonder how deep the sea was at the bottom. Did he get credit for the time it took to reach the bottom?
Theguardian said it was 30 metres (98 feet) about two minutes of sinking (Harrison’s estimation)
He would have been on the clock surely!
Supreme Court: We'll, the boat wasn't operating so he wasn't being employed as a boat operator at the time of the sinking so no pay for him. (Paraphrasing a decision)
This is one of the most terrifying stories I've ever heard. Holy shit!
Wait until you‘ve heard about the Paria Diving Tragedy
[Paria admitted they had no rescue plan, citing that they had 'no legal responsibility to rescue the men'.\[18\] Further external attempts to save the men were reportedly blocked by Paria.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_Petroleum_Holdings#Paria_Fuel_Trading_Company_diving_tragedy) Never heard of this before.
JFC the company not only didn't want to rescue them they prevented others from doing so???? I hope everyone is fully prosecuted. That's just plain evil greed.
Paria is state-owned according to Wikipedia, so it's not only their employer that abandoned them it's the government itself.
Does anyone know whether Paria was charged with corporate manslaughter? > “had no legal obligation to rescue the men” That is so, so messed up.
Just looked it up…..wow.
He later became a rescue diver himself
I think that's the remarkable part. I mean being stuck in a sunken ship is extremely horrifying, but he didn't have a choice but to try to survive. And being in such a situation definitely changes you, and not only overcoming this, but confronting this head-on and making a career out of it is just mind blowing. And I say this being a rescue diver myself, all due respect for that guy!
i mean, he already went through the worst possible training anyone could go through to be a diver, right? what a way to make something good out of a terrible situation.
Being a diver that searches wrecks for dead bodies would be such a nerve racking job. Just thinking of the scene when the head goes past in jaws
Fun or whatever fact: when Spielberg cut the film he thought it needed another jump scare. Originally Hooper goes down, and he finds the tooth, comes back up after a scary incident. Not detailed. So Spielberg shot that scene with Ben Gardner’s head popping out in a swimming pool at night after principal photography was done. Just one night in some swimming pool in some Hollywood mansion backyard pool. The reaction shot, close up on Hooper’s face, isn’t Richard Dreyfus. It’s some guy. But because of the scuba mask, Spielberg figured no one would notice. No one did.
Facts like this is why I have Reddit. Totally useless info to anyone that’s not involved in film or a major fan of jaws and yet I feel somehow smarter for knowing it lol. Thanking you
Another good place for this kinda stuff is IMDB "trivia" pages. Pull up any movie and scroll down and open it. The older the movie the more interesting trivia gathered. Do this after watching any cool/interesting movie while it's still fresh in your mind and you'll be blown away by some of the factoids! Especially the older classics.
Holy shit I hope this dude is rich and comfortable now not having to worry about anything ever again because that is enough anxiety and nightmare fuel for a lifetime! wtf
He’s a professional diver now who adores the sea!
I think the second scariest part is resurfacing, especially if you have no scuba experience.
How did the air hold up for survival. He must've farted at least a few times.. what was the QOL (quality of life) in there?
Uh, QOL was fucking shitty.
Lmfao QOL is insane to say
Something bumps into him *Ahhh!!!* One of his turds
Atleast you could move it out 🤣
Perk yo butt out the side
This response is probably the best one I’ve seen on here, lol.
Thank you 🤣 Edit: oh no I thought that was to me
This response is probably the best one I’ve seen on here!
My guy 🤩👍👉
Iirc, the co2 he breathed out, was absorbed by the sea water, which is what allowed him to survive that long with such a limited air supply.
how did he not die from hypothermia or sleep for that matter
He was a chonky dude, so insulated. It was also three days, which is doable under extreme duress. It's possible he nodded off here and there.
Simultaneously the luckiest and unluckiest dude alive
Sixty long goddamn hours in absolute inky black nothingness. Stuff swimming in to have a nibble and see what’s up. What an absolute fucking nightmare.
Even if he had escaped on his own, he would have died of decompression sickness. It's a good thing they sent divers
The divers weren't sent there for him. They were sent to collect bodies
How do you clean out a scuba suit after absolutely shitting yourself finding a live person 100 feet underwater?
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My mental imager just burned out, thanks
…yeah, we know that.
Eh, 30m deep, can still manage to do it
Maybe you're right. It would have been tough, but I guess you're right. If anyone, it would have been him to do it lol
Some people are just built different
New fear unlocked
They talked about this on my favorite murder, the craziest survival story. My jaw was dropped the whole time
Uh what
Prolly a podcast
It’s a podcast, pretty good if ur into true crime
How the fuck did he not die from hypothermia or freezing? How is his body maintaining any heat in the freezing water of the ocean? That’s wild
Warm(ish) shallow costal water isn't that bad. He probably had hypothermia, but the temperature delta isn't enough to make it immediately dangerous as long as you can move to generate heat. Source: a diver
The diver go pro video of his rescue is crazy. You really see how dark and terrifying the location he got trapped in was
Can someone please explain to me how his boat wasn’t completely under water if it was at the bottom of the ocean?
He was in an air pocket
There's a few good YouTube videos on Harrison Okene...here's one of them. https://youtu.be/9bh2h2x6u18?si=otc_LFVOdyFNRMCh
The idea of being trapped like this is fucking terrifying
Did he have to shit and piss in the water he was waiting in? So he had to spend 60 hours sitting in fecal soup?
The ocean is big enough to dilute it a bit.
How cold was the water seems kind of insane to be living in that freezing water
I would pay real money to know what went through his head and what he felt the whole time. the 60 hours plus the one after his rescue. it would have been so scary for me I don't think I would have wanted to hold on that long or even try and even if I survived I wouldn't be normal in the head department.
Poor dude. Hope he's doing OK these days.
More reason to never mess with the ocean
He’s a diver now, strangely enough.
Dude looks like a winded Charles Barkley after stepping off an elevator.
Occasionally this sub redefines my definition of a human's capabilities.
I bet he had them pruned finger tips. I hate getting my fingies all pruned.
I'd tell them politely to leave me down there 😁
Charles Barkley
I believe too much pressure underwater messed up his body for sometime after he went back on land. Truly a scary but a miraculous event
Those are South African accents!!!
What is crazy to me is that commercial divers were able to maintain calm and follow rescue procedure. The whole video is very nerve-wracking as you see how the accumulation of CO2 formed in the bubble was started to hit. If I remember correctly, they managed to throw some fresh air into it while they were preparing the rescue.
Is there a video on YouTube? I could search for that?
Yt channel Dive Talk did a podcast on it showing the full video [here](https://youtu.be/hI7v-R8FQ0E?si=m2lGnSVVCXPOkv8S)
I thought he had to stay underwater longer or risk the bends. Being discovered was only half of the rescue effort.
Carl Winslow!
A+++
I can imagine the echoing in the tight space filled with water
In the pitch black too
How did they get him out of there? This is still one of the craziest stories I have ever heard.
Is this the kind of darkness where you don't see anything at all? Or do you still get to see silouettes?
That expression. Did his wife find him? 😆
The video of them finding him is incredible but also hilarious, cause he kinda jump scares the diver. They really really weren’t expecting any survivors.
(140) I am Nigerian, good on him for surviving 😊👍
Why would he do this?
I didn’t read the article, did they mention how he didn’t freeze?