The Man Who Survived a Sunken Ship

In a remarkable story of survival, a Nigerian man named Harrison Okene was the sole survivor after his tugboat sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 2013. He endured a staggering three days trapped in a tiny air pocket inside the submerged wreckage. While a popular story claims he was low on oxygen and asked for a cigarette, his actual first words upon being found by divers were, "I'm alive, I'm alive!" followed by a request for water.

 

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