Unbelievable survivor Harrison Okene — Transcript

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1. 0:00i've spent a lot of time underwater
2. 0:03but i'm totally reliant on my scuba gear
3. 0:06to keep me alive
4. 0:07without it i wouldn't last for more than
5. 0:10a few minutes
6. 0:11so how did one man survive on the ocean
7. 0:14floor
8. 0:14for three days without any diving
9. 0:17equipment whatsoever
10. 0:19new scientific analysis of his
11. 0:21unbelievable underwater ordeal
12. 0:23challenges everything i thought i knew
13. 0:28may 26 2013
14. 0:3320 miles off the coast of nigeria
15. 0:38a tugboat called the just gun 4 is
16. 0:41caught
17. 0:42in a fierce storm the big wave
18. 0:45hit the side of the tug which broke the
19. 0:48toe wire and turned the tug upside down
20. 0:55by the time the rescue team arrives at
21. 0:57the scene
22. 0:58the vessel and all 12 crew men
23. 1:02have disappeared
24. 1:06the tug boat sank in about 100 foot of
25. 1:08water so they needed a specialist dive
26. 1:10crew to go down there and
27. 1:12do the recovery it takes hours to
28. 1:15assemble the divers
29. 1:16and transport them to the site of the
30. 1:18disaster
31. 1:21by which time they believe there's
32. 1:23little to no hope
33. 1:25of finding any survivors
34. 1:29it's essentially a body recovery mission
35. 1:31at that point
36. 1:34they were working at depth in low
37. 1:36visibility in this upturned vessel
38. 1:39the divers recover the bodies of four
39. 1:41crewmen who went down with the ship
40. 1:44they're continuing the grisly task of
41. 1:46locating the other eight
42. 1:49when the impossible happens
43. 1:57imagine a hand grabbing you underwater
44. 1:59when you expect that
45. 2:00nobody is alive in this shipwreck
46. 2:03incredibly the ship's cook
47. 2:0529 year old harrison olcaney has
48. 2:08survived underwater
49. 2:10for nearly three days
50. 2:13all right just keep him there keep him
51. 2:14calm okay
52. 2:17it's a once in a lifetime miracle it's
53. 2:20beyond belief how'd this guy survive for
54. 2:2460 hours under underwater
55. 2:28can science unravel the mystery of this
56. 2:30unparalleled
57. 2:32underwater survival story
58. 2:37you