This Man Was Trapped 100ft Beneath The Atlantic Ocean: The Incredible Survival of Harrison Okene — Transcript

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1. 0:02[Music]
2. 1:00w
3. 1:33at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
4. 1:34beneath the crushing weight of 100 ft of
5. 1:36water lies the wreckage of the Jackson 4
6. 1:39tugbo in this forgotten World light
7. 1:42Fades sound dies and time seems to stand
8. 1:45still but adid the Twisted still and
9. 1:47debris one man held on to life longer
10. 1:49than anyone thought possible his name
11. 1:52Harrison oen
12. 1:57[Music]
13. 2:03on the 25th of May 2013 the jkan for
14. 2:06tugboat was working on an offshore oil
15. 2:08platform for Sherron with a 12-man crew
16. 2:1120 mi off the coast of Nigeria Harrison
17. 2:14was their chef after working that day
18. 2:17Harrison made dinner it was indeed tasty
19. 2:20they all said your good nights and
20. 2:22lights went out
21. 2:25[Music]
22. 2:30in the early hours of the 26th Harrison
23. 2:32woke up to make breakfast for the crew
24. 2:35on his way to the kitchen his stomach
25. 2:36began to rumble he went to the toilet
26. 2:38for a number
27. 2:39two while conducting his business a
28. 2:42powerful Rogue Wave hit the ship and
29. 2:45within seconds it
30. 2:53capsized no one had time to react
31. 2:56Harrison was hit on the Ed by the WC as
32. 2:58the boat flipped upside down
33. 3:00Water started rushing in from every
34. 3:02direction in those frantic moments it
35. 3:04was
36. 3:07chaos dazed from being knocked out by
37. 3:09the WC Harrison managed to crawl out of
38. 3:11the bathroom only to find the Sheep
39. 3:13already filling with water the crew
40. 3:15didn't stand a chance 12 men on board 11
41. 3:18never made it out alive but for Harrison
42. 3:21fate had other plans
43. 3:35[Music]
44. 3:41he stumbled into an air pocket in the
45. 3:43engineer's room a tiny space in the wre
46. 3:46cage where water hadn't fully flooded
47. 3:48but now he was
48. 3:50trapped the boat had sunk to the ocean
49. 3:52floor and Harrison Oken was about to
50. 3:55spend the next 60 hours completely
51. 3:58alone alone in the Peach black belly of
52. 4:00the ship Harrison faced a terrifying
53. 4:02reality his air pocket was running out
54. 4:06the walls of the sunken ship pressed in
55. 4:07from all sides and the icy water clawed
56. 4:10at his
57. 4:11skin he began to
58. 4:14pray for 3 Days Harrison prayed he held
59. 4:18on to a flicker of Hope praying for a
60. 4:20rescue no one thought
61. 4:22possible imagine that for a second you
62. 4:24at the bottom of the ocean in complete
63. 4:26darkness surrounded by wreckage you know
64. 4:29no one's coming the water is freezing
65. 4:31slowly sucking the warmth out of your
66. 4:33body you can hear the ship creaking
67. 4:35shifting at any point the entire
68. 4:37structure could collapse that was
69. 4:39Harrison's reality and it got worse when
70. 4:42you realize he didn't have much time
71. 4:44left each breath consumed a little
72. 4:46oxygen remaining filling the air pockets
73. 4:48with CO2 there was no food the smell of
74. 4:51dies made it harder to breathe and the
75. 4:54cold sied deeper into his
76. 4:56bones for over 2 days Harrison stayed in
77. 4:59the small air pocket he found his only
78. 5:01source of light was his phone but
79. 5:03eventually even that battery died in
80. 5:06total darkness he started to hear what
81. 5:08sounded like sharks feeding he was
82. 5:10terrified he knew he was going to die
83. 5:13but he didn't know when or
84. 5:16how he started praying again holding on
85. 5:19to the hope that maybe just maybe
86. 5:21someone will find him and I was there
87. 5:23trying to like an WC fell on my head and
88. 5:25tear my head and I was there struggling
89. 5:27on how I can be able to open the door
90. 5:29when I was right there in the water when
91. 5:31I have access to nothing right down
92. 5:34inside the water I thought of my family
93. 5:37thought of my my mom my brothers my wife
94. 5:41I have access to none of them no way to
95. 5:43get to them and I was right in the water
96. 5:45and I know I'm going to die but the only
97. 5:48thing I could put my hope and trust in
98. 5:50and my confident in is God I don't know
99. 5:53he's up to 3 days because I was thinking
100. 5:54just a it's get to the evening I was
101. 5:57there keep on praying praying praying
102. 5:58praying praying when I pray prayed for
103. 5:59some time I stopped and I said God let
104. 6:01that way be done as it is in heaven
105. 6:03because I have tried my best and I have
106. 6:06called on you and you have never FedEd
107. 6:07me before and you will never fed me I to
108. 6:10in my life as I said that to me if death
109. 6:14comes lady
110. 6:24hes on the surface a team of South
111. 6:26African divers had arrived their mission
112. 6:28was grim they were to recover the bodies
113. 6:31of the crewmen trapped
114. 6:32below as they prepared to descend into
115. 6:35the cold Dark Water no one believed they
116. 6:37were
117. 6:39survivors the wreck had been underwater
118. 6:41for over 60 hours and no one had ever
119. 6:43survived that long at such deaths but
120. 6:46what they didn't know was that Harrison
121. 6:48was still down there clinging to life
122. 6:50and his
123. 6:51faith there were also concerns for the
124. 6:53divers because when they go into a wreck
125. 6:55is dangerous the structure can collapse
126. 6:58the water is pitch blast and they have
127. 7:00no idea what's inside the deeper they go
128. 7:02the more they feel the pressure
129. 7:04literally and
130. 7:06mentally at this time they're ready and
131. 7:09they go in
132. 7:30[Music]
133. 7:38soon they found the sunken ship and
134. 7:40began exploring the wreckage they had to
135. 7:42be very careful navigating through the
136. 7:44tight Twisted corridors of the jkan for
137. 7:47because the wreck was unstable and
138. 7:48visibility was close to
139. 7:50zero Harrison's Survivor depended on the
140. 7:53fragile air pocket that kept him alive
141. 7:56but even that was a taking time bur with
142. 7:58carbon dioxide building up in the tiny
143. 8:00space each breath became more labored
144. 8:02and painful his body craved oxygen but
145. 8:05the air was slowly turning toxic and yet
146. 8:07living the safety of his air pocket to
147. 8:09try and Escape into the pitch black
148. 8:10water would mean certain
149. 8:12death suddenly Harrison heard a noise
150. 8:15unsure what to make of it he dove into
151. 8:18the water then it happened in the murky
152. 8:21Darkness one of the divers saw something
153. 8:23they couldn't believe a hand reaching
154. 8:25out from the wreckage for a moment the
155. 8:27diver thought it was just another body a
156. 8:29lifeless arm hanging in the water but
157. 8:32then the hand grabbed back all right so
158. 8:35you should be walking on the on the on
159. 8:37the ceiling yeah okay this what's that
160. 8:41okay [ __ ] that's horrible all right you
161. 8:43found one yeah he alive he's alive he's
162. 8:46alive okay keep him there keep him there
163. 8:49all right just just all right all right
164. 8:53just hold him there okay just keep him
165. 8:55there [ __ ] hell I don't know what we
166. 8:57going to do now all right just keep him
167. 8:59there and keep him calm okay M all right
168. 9:02just um just reassure him patch him on
169. 9:04the
170. 9:09shoulder
171. 9:13okay all
172. 9:16right all
173. 9:19right all right show him the harness
174. 9:21just r
175. 9:24on Harris okin had survived 3 days
176. 9:27trapped 100 ft below the surface in a
177. 9:28cold dark air pocket his body was weak
178. 9:32his oxygen running low but even now he
179. 9:34wasn't out of danger here's why after
180. 9:37spending so much time in the depth
181. 9:39bringing him up too quickly could be
182. 9:42deadly the divers had to deal with a
183. 9:44major risk the bends rapid
184. 9:47decompressions could cause nitrogen
185. 9:49bubbles to form in his bloodstream
186. 9:51boiling it from the inside which could
187. 9:53lead to extreme pain paralysis or even
188. 9:55death to prevent this they carefully
189. 9:58brought him into a DE depression chamber
190. 10:00making sure his body could adjust to the
191. 10:02pressure it was a slow methodical
192. 10:04process every minute counted but after
193. 10:07nearly 3 days in complete isolation
194. 10:09Harrison was finally
195. 10:11free when Harrison came out his world
196. 10:14had changed he'd survived something
197. 10:17almost impossible something no one
198. 10:19believed could happen the story of the
199. 10:21man who spent 3 days trapped under a
200. 10:23sunken ship quickly spread around the
201. 10:25world capturing hearts and imaginations
202. 10:28but the trauma of what he experienced
203. 10:31that's something he carries with him
204. 10:32long after I still have nightmares I
205. 10:35remember the darkness the cold Harrison
206. 10:38says after an ordeal like this most
207. 10:40people would never return to the water
208. 10:43but now Harrison he trained as a diver
209. 10:45with the company that rescued him and
210. 10:47today he works as a diver for the same
211. 10:49company that takes
212. 10:51guts my name is aris K in May 26
213. 10:562013 I was involved with a sh prank in
214. 10:59Nigeria that took place and I was really
215. 11:02survival among 11 of us and today making
216. 11:05it 9 years that I was involved with E
217. 11:08and today I find myself diving in the
218. 11:11same company that came for the rescue in
219. 11:14Nigeria and start diving in operation
220. 11:17and today I found myself working with
221. 11:18them as a diver in the same pit and they
222. 11:21were walking at the moment inead of the
223. 11:23E they came for the rescue and today I'm
224. 11:25with them
225. 11:27walking the story of Harrison is very
226. 11:29inspiring it's one of resilience and
227. 11:32faith we want to end by saying no matter
228. 11:35what situation you find yourself even in
229. 11:37your deepest darkest moment there is
230. 11:40always help always a reason to keep
231. 11:42pushing always a reason to keep fighting
232. 11:45be like Harrison and don't ever give up
233. 11:49Salute what is what is your
234. 11:52rank you're the cook they only survive