He Survived 62 Hours Inside a Sunken Ship 100 Feet Underwater

This is the true story of Harrison Okene — the Nigerian ship cook who survived for 62 hours inside a sunken tugboat, 100 feet underwater, while everyone above the surface believed the entire crew was gone. In May 2013, the tugboat Jascon-4 capsized off the coast of Nigeria during a violent storm. Twelve men were on board. Eleven did not make it out. Okene was trapped inside the wreck in total darkness, wearing only boxer shorts, sitting in a tiny air pocket while the ship lay upside down on the ocean floor. He had no training. No diving gear. No light. Almost no food or water. For more than two days, he stayed still, prayed, listened to the metal around him creak under pressure, and waited in the dark while his wife hundreds of miles away began preparing his funeral. When commercial divers finally reached the wreck, they were not searching for survivors. They were sent to recover bodies. Then, inside the flooded engineer’s cabin, a diver felt a hand grab his wrist. The man was still alive. This is the full story of Harrison Okene, the Jascon-4 sinking, the storm, the air pocket, the physics that kept him breathing, the rescue divers, the dangerous decompression process, and the phone call that made his wife stop the casket. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 — Found Alive Inside the Wreck 01:26 — The Cook 03:03 — The Storm 04:32 — The Air Pocket 07:17 — The Physics 08:58 — The Divers 12:03 — The Extraction 14:42 — The Return ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 MORE FROM AGO Subscribe for more true stories about survival, impossible escapes, hidden systems, strange disasters, and the people who lived through situations nobody thought were survivable. 🎬 Advertising & Business Inquiries: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE CHANNEL Ago tells true stories about ordinary people caught inside extraordinary situations — survival stories, disasters, impossible decisions, hidden systems, and real events that sound almost impossible until you see how they happened. If you like documentaries that get straight to the point, uncover strange true stories, and show how one person can survive what should have been impossible, subscribe for a new story every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #HarrisonOkene #SurvivalStory #SunkenShip #TrueStory #Documentary #OceanSurvival #Shipwreck #Jascon4 #DeepSeaRescue #Ago