Sixty Hours Under the Sea
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Sixty Hours Under the Sea
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In the early hours of the twenty-sixth of May, 2013, the anchor-handling tug Jascon-4 lost stability in heavy swell in the Gulf of Guinea and rolled. She sank stern-first and came to rest upside down in a hundred feet of water. Eleven of the twelve men aboard drowned. Harrison Okene, the ship's cook, was in the toilet when she went over — which is the specific reason he lived. He found a four-foot air pocket in an inverted cabin, got onto a mattress, and sat in salt water to his chest in complete darkness for close to sixty hours. Two and a half days later a commercial diving team arrived to recover the bodies. This episode covers the physics that kept him alive, the carbon dioxide that was hours from killing him, and the decision a dive supervisor made in seconds that stopped the rescue from killing him on the way up.
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