On May 26, 2013, the tugboat Jascon-4 capsized while stabilizing an oil tanker off Nigeria.
The ship settled upside down on the seabed, about 20 miles from shore.
It lay about 100 feet (30 meters) down.
Around 5 a.m., cook Harrison Okene, 29, was in the toilet. The boat sank so fast he could not get out.
Water dragged him into another toilet in only his underpants. A small air pocket held there.
Everything was black and loud. He cried and called on Jesus to pull him out and let him see light.
He was hungry, thirsty, and numb from the icy water.
What did he hear next to him?
Fish eating the bodies of his shipmates. He smelled them. He heard the sounds.
Nearly 60 hours passed at that depth.
Divers swam through the flooded rooms, searching for bodies.
A hand reached out of the dark and grabbed one of them.
He was alive.
That long, that deep?
A recreational dive there usually lasts no more than 20 minutes.
Prayer did not give him air.
The air pocket in the toilet did.
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