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Video Of Nigerian Man Who Survived 3 Days At Bottom Of Atlantic Goes Viral

Video Of Nigerian Man Who Survived 3 Days At Bottom Of Atlantic Goes Viral

In May news of a Nigerian man surviving nearly three days in an upended tugboat in the Atlantic ocean hit the international news but there was no video to prove it. Now a raw video of the rescue has been posted online and it has gone viral, hindustantimes reported.

Nigerian, Harrison Odjegba Okene, who worked as a cook survive a boat capsize in the Atlantic ocean by breathing a dwindling air pocket under the boat. None of the other 11 crew members survived.

He was rescued by divers from a Dutch company, DNC Diving, sent to the scene to look for bodies. The divers were working on a neighboring oil field 120 kilometers away from where the boat sunk.

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.