Man Survives Three Days at the Bottom of the Atlantic in a Sunken Tugboat

He was trapped at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for three days. Harrison Odjegba Okene survived because he was stuck in an air pocket in a capsized tugboat.  He was in the bathroom when the tugboat flipped over.

It happened back in May but video of the rescue just hit the internet Tuesday. Okene is the soul survivor, the other 11 men on board died.

Divers sent out were not looking for survivors.  They had already pulled out four bodies when a diver saw a hand sticking out. He thought it was the hand of a dead man,  he grabbed it and the hand grabbed back.

It was all captured by a camera on the divers helmet.

Tony Walker, project manager for the Dutch company DCN Diving talked to the Associated Press.  He told AP that the company divers went to the scene because they were working on a neighboring oil field 75 miles away.

"It was frightening for everybody," he said. "For the guy that was trapped because he didn't know what was happening. It was a shock for the diver while he was down there looking for bodies, and we (in the control room) shot back when the hand grabbed him on the screen."

Okene survived by rationing just one bottle of Coke in the freezing water, and he credits his faith.

He was rescued by a diver who first used hot water to warm him up, then attached him to an oxygen mask. Once free of the sunken boat, he was put into a decompression chamber and then safely returned to the surface.