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| Harrison Okene with the divers that rescued him from the wreck of the Jascon-4 tugboat, 30 metres underwater off the coast of Nigeria. |
Divers
off the coast of Nigeria only expected to bring bodies back from a
recovery mission in May, but when reaching for a hand floating in the
murky water, they were shocked to find it was survivor.
New video released by DCN Diving, the company that employs the divers, shows the dramatic rescue.
The
Jascon-4 tug capsized at about 4:50 a.m. on May 26, while trying to
stabilize a tanker filling up at an oil platform with 12 crew on board.
The boat settled on the ocean floor 30 metres below.
The
South African dive team, tasked with searching for bodies two days
after the accident, captured the dramatic moment when one of the divers
grabbed the hand of 29-year-old Harrison Okene — the ship’s cook.
“He’s
alive! He’s alive,” shouts one of the divers, in the video released
this week, as they realized there was a survivor still on board.
Okene managed to survive for two days in an air pocket in the hull of the overturned ship, for 62 hours.
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