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of the ocean is a huge and terrifying
place but it's even more huge and
terrifying when you go beneath the
surface more than 80% of the world's
oceans are still unmapped unobserved and
unexplored meaning that if you go down
on a ship you're most likely going to
sink down to an area that no human being
has ever before seen boats and people
still go missing all the time out there
and occasionally even entire airplanes
with hundreds of people on board due to
very rarely do people who go missing out
there ever returned back to us on the
land but this is the story of one guy
who did and he's probably simultaneously
both one of the unluckiest and luckiest
people to have ever lived his name is
Harrison ejecta okene a Nigerian man who
in 2013 was working an ordinary job as a
cook on board the ordinary tugboat Jess
gone for his boat was working with a
couple others late at night on the 26th
of May about 32 kilometers off the coast
of Nigeria in the Gulf of Guinea while
they were attempting to work together
stabilizing a chevron oil tanker in the
rough seas a freakish big rogue wave
smashed into the jasc on 4 at around
4:30 a.m. which snapped their rope and
flipped the boat over it began to
rapidly sink and panic set in for the 12
crew members on board most of these guys
were locked inside of their cabins as a
safety precaution against getting raided
by pirates but while being locked inside
of a cabin works well against a dude
with a gun it doesn't work so well when
your cabin is getting flooded with water
luckily for oh Ken a however was that
right before the ship flipped over he
had left his cabin for the bathroom only
wearing his underwear he got tossed
around inside before the tiny room
filled up with water he forced the door
open and witnessed several of his
friends get swept outside of the boats
Oh Kenny got pushed out from the
bathroom down the hallway into another
bathroom where he managed to hang on
above water for long enough until the
boat hit the ocean floor 30 meters
beneath the surface roughly equal to a
seven story build
eventually suffering from the extreme
cold he managed to scramble his way out
of this dangerous tiny bathroom
underwater and in complete darkness
unable to see or breathe he used his
hands to feel ahead of him until he
fantastically discovered another larger
air pocket in the engineers office where
he decided to stay put but almost
completely naked with no food or fresh
water in a cold wet room with a rapidly
diminishing supply of oxygen his odds of
survival were definitely very grim the
pocket of air he was now trapped in was
small only about 1.2 meters high and six
cubic meters in volume and the death
buffet that the grim reaper was offering
him up was plentiful he could have died
from thirst he could have died from just
being too cold the water could have
filled up and drowned him he could have
just run out of air and suffocated or he
could have gotten eaten alive by sharks
who were already investigating the wreck
so here's how he managed to fight off
all of these multiple friend requests
from the Reaper first he managed to find
a few cans of coke around his area to
prevent his dehydration second he
discovered a mattress that he fashioned
beneath him that kept part of his chest
and his entire head above the cold water
which helped his core continue to stay
warm and prevented the onset of
hypothermia if it wasn't for that lucky
break the very cold water would have
likely killed him within hours but his
biggest problem was the tiny pocket of
air that he was trapped in running out
of oxygen based on the size of the
pocket that he was in and the pressure
that it was under 30 meters beneath the
ocean his time limit for breathing was
likely only around 60 hours give or take
a little but there was an additional
danger to him in the pocket besides
simply running out of oxygen to breathe
he could have also breathed out too much
and pumped out too much carbon dioxide
which would have poisoned himself
luckily for him however is that co2 is
easily absorbed by water and by
splashing the water around inside he was
inadvertedly increasing the water
surface area which increased the rate
that the co2 was getting absorbed at and
so the levels never got high enough
inside to become lethal and while he had
to endear the sounds
sharks getting in and feasting upon the
corpses of his friends they luckily
never managed to find him in his little
pockets Oh Kenny was trapped there half
in water at the bottom of the ocean in a
tiny pitch-black six cubic metre space
while listening to sharks eating his
friends 460 incredibly grueling and
frightening hours pushing the absolute
limit of his limited oxygen supply when
right then probably within just an hour
or two of suffocating he finally heard
the sound of knocking unknown to him
Chevron had sent a team of divers to
investigate the wreck and recover any
bodies unknown to Chevron was that one
of those bodies was actually still alive
Oh Kenny began banging his surroundings
back at them to no avail but when he
finally saw the light of a diver emerge
inside of the water nearby to him he
knew that his time to act had come the
divers only expected to find a corpse
but he latched on to the arm of the next
diver who passed and probably gave him
the shock of his life but the risk of
death for Oh Kenny wasn't even over then
after being under the ocean for so long
a rapid ascent back to the surface would
have likely sent him into cardiac arrest
and killed him so the divers equipped
him with a diving helmet
placed him into a diving bell and raised
him back up above the ocean surface
where he then had to spend two more days
decompressing before finally returning
back to normal reality after his
real-life nightmare
Oh Kenny's horrific ordeal is believed
to be the longest amount of time that
any human being has ever survived for
underwater without the assistance of any
diving equipment he says that he
continues to have nightmares about the
incident and he has vowed to never again
return to the ocean for the rest of his
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