Harrison Okene Survived 3 Days Trapped at the Bottom of the Ocean #DanielTellsStory #HarrisonOkene — Transcript

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1. 0:01Okay, Pedro, let's tell this one. May
2. 0:0426, 2013, 20 miles off the southern
3. 0:07coast of Nigeria.
4. 0:10A violent storm strikes the Atlantic,
5. 0:12flipping a tugboat upside down and
6. 0:15sending it to the ocean floor, 30 m
7. 0:19under the surface. And inside that boat
8. 0:22was 29-year-old Harrison O'ini. He was
9. 0:25just a cook wearing nothing but his
10. 0:27boxers sitting on a toilet actually when
11. 0:30the disaster struck.
12. 0:33By the time the boat hit the seabed,
13. 0:35Harrison was alone in the dark, trapped
14. 0:38underwater with no way out and no one to
15. 0:41come save him.
16. 0:43This is the true story of how Harrison
17. 0:46survived three days in a tiny air pocket
18. 0:50at the bottom of the sea. A story of
19. 0:53faith, fear, and the will to live.
20. 1:00[Music]
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29. 1:30because today's story is one of the most
30. 1:33intense survival tales you will ever
31. 1:36hear.
32. 1:38It started as a normal morning. Carrison
33. 1:41woke up, says his daily prayers, and
34. 1:44then turned on the hot plates for
35. 1:45breakfast and then headed to the
36. 1:47bathroom. And then that's when the wave
37. 1:50hit. The Jason Ford tugboat flipped
38. 1:54upside down. The bathroom door jammed
39. 1:56and water rushed in. The toilet struck
40. 2:00Harrison on the head as he scrambled in
41. 2:02the dark. He felt blood in his face
42. 2:05before everything went black.
43. 2:08Within 2 minutes, the entire boat hit
44. 2:11the seabed
45. 2:1230 m down.
46. 2:17When Harrison finally forced his way
47. 2:19out, he saw two or three of his
48. 2:20colleagues struggling to open the
49. 2:22watertight exit hatch. But as the water
50. 2:25rose, panic spread.
51. 2:28Harrison made a choice which saved his
52. 2:31life. He swam deeper into the vessel
53. 2:34away from the exit. The force of the
54. 2:37water swept him into the second
55. 2:39engineer's bathroom. And that's where a
56. 2:42miracle happened. Because the crew
57. 2:44always kept the cabin door shut to guard
58. 2:47against pirates, some of the air was
59. 2:49trapped. Harrison found himself in a
60. 2:52small air pocket. He clung to the base
61. 2:55of a wash basin upside down in the
62. 2:58freezing black water.
63. 3:01And unfortunately, from the darkness, he
64. 3:03heard the screaming, the shouts, the
65. 3:06cries for help. And then one by one,
66. 3:09they were silent.
67. 3:11He realized he might be the only one who
68. 3:14was left alive.
69. 3:16Instead of panicking, Harrison focused
70. 3:18on surviving.
71. 3:21He broke the bathroom vent, used a piece
72. 3:23of metal to pry open the door, and swam
73. 3:26into the second engineer's cabin, where
74. 3:28he found two life jackets and torches.
75. 3:32He kept one torch in his mouth and
76. 3:34another in his boxers and remade
77. 3:36repeated dives throughout the flooded
78. 3:38corridors trying to reach the watertight
79. 3:41hatch. But there was no air pocket
80. 3:44outside. He almost got lost. He almost
81. 3:48drowned.
82. 3:49So he changed his strategy.
83. 3:53He tore up clothes he found into strips,
84. 3:57made them into a rope, and tied it to
85. 3:59the cabin door. That rope became his
86. 4:02lifeline. Then he ripped the wood wood
87. 4:05panels from the ceiling and tied them
88. 4:07together, creating a makeshift raft so
89. 4:10he could sit above the rising water in
90. 4:12his tiny little air pocket.
91. 4:15For nearly three days, Harrison waited
92. 4:19in complete darkness. He ate a t of
93. 4:23sardines, drank a single can of coke,
94. 4:26and prayed, singing church hymns to keep
95. 4:29his mind from breaking.
96. 4:31But the ocean wasn't done with him.
97. 4:34Crayfish and tiny sea creatures began to
98. 4:36nibble at his legs and arms. The salt
99. 4:39water peeled his tongue and made his
100. 4:42throat burn.
101. 4:44The water kept rising and he could hear
102. 4:47the ships passing far above him. And
103. 4:50then a sound, a metallic noise close. A
104. 4:56diver had arrived to mark the wreck for
105. 4:58other ships. Harrison banged on the
106. 5:01steel walls with all of his strength. At
107. 5:04first, there's no response. Then a light
108. 5:08in the darkness. The divers's camera
109. 5:11recorded the moment. At first, they just
110. 5:13found they thought they found a body.
111. 5:16But then Harrison's hand reached out and
112. 5:19grabbed the divers. After 62 hours
113. 5:23underwater, Harrison was alive. The dive
114. 5:26team rushed him to a diving bell and
115. 5:29then a decompression chamber where he
116. 5:31spent the next 3 days to prevent his
117. 5:33body from going into shock. When they
118. 5:36finally told him how long he had been
119. 5:38underwater, he couldn't believe it. He
120. 5:41just thought maybe he had passed a
121. 5:42night, not 3 days.
122. 5:46But when he returned home, the PTSD and
123. 5:49nightmares began. He dreamt of drowning,
124. 5:52carrying his wife to safety, and of
125. 5:54flooding and in his bed.
126. 5:57But Harrison refused to let that fear
127. 6:00win.
128. 6:02A year later, his car crashed off a
129. 6:05bridge and then went into a river and he
130. 6:07escaped, but then went back underwater
131. 6:10and tied a rope to his car so that his
132. 6:12car could be recovered.
133. 6:14That was his turning point. He decided
134. 6:17he would never let the fear of water win
135. 6:20over him again. He trained as a
136. 6:23professional diver. By 2015, despite his
137. 6:27personal struggles and depression and
138. 6:29separation from his wife, he completed
139. 6:32his diving certification.
140. 6:34Today, years after Jun 4 sank, Harrison
141. 6:38O'ini is 39 years old, a father of
142. 6:41three, and works as a diver on oil and
143. 6:44gas f facilities. Sometimes going as
144. 6:48deep as 50 m underwater.
145. 6:51He said that this experience changed him
146. 6:53forever, made him value life, faith, and
147. 6:58purpose.
148. 7:00When humans are close to death, he said,
149. 7:02that is when we understand that we are
150. 7:05all one.
151. 7:07Harrison Noini's story isn't just about
152. 7:09survival. It's about courage, faith, and
153. 7:14finding the strength when everything
154. 7:16else seems lost.
155. 7:18Would you have kept calm in the darkness
156. 7:20for 3 days, or would you have let the
157. 7:23fear take over? Let me know in the
158. 7:25comments. I do read every single one.
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164. 7:42Until next time, stay curious, stay
165. 7:45brave, and remember, fear only wins if
166. 7:50you let it.