Hours ticked by as Harrison Okene sat in the cold and pitch black. Then he heard a terrifying sound; the 'bite of big fish'. 9News
Driving rain and crushing waves swept over the Jascon-4 as the tugboat navigated through turbulent black waters around 30 kilometres off the coast of Nigeria.The 12-man crew didn't know it then but the small boat was sailing to its doom.Tugboat Jascon-4 capsized in heavy swells on May 26, 2013, off the coast of Nigeria. Harrison Okene was the sole survivor. He survived underwater for nearly three days.
Okene pulled up his boxers and started to tear through the ship, but escape was made difficult by the fact all but a couple of doors had been locked in a bid to deter potential attacks from pirates.There, a wall of water forced him into the room's adjoining toilet.An air pocket formed, giving the then 29-year-old precious oxygen to breathe.
He and a crew from DCN, a global diving company, had been sent by Chevron and West African Ventures to retrieve the bodies of the crew.Very gently, Okene reached out to van Heerden and tapped his gear, careful not to startle him."When he came I was just crying," Okene said."I was not afraid at that time. I had already decided if it's to be alive or dead, no problem.
"Contrary to popular belief, when people are trapped in confined spaces it is not the oxygen running out that will kill you, it is your own exhaled breath causing a build-up of CO"You can see him panting in the video and his slightly glazed eyes caused by this.
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