Trapped Under the Ocean For 60 Hours: This Man Endured What the OceanGate Passengers Didn’t
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have come across the accident of the OceanGate submersible. The ill-fated vessel imploded on its way to meet the Titanic shipwreck, as its five men on board met the same fate as 1500 passengers did on Titanic about a century ago.
Ironically, the horrific nature of their death is now construed as the only silver lining in an otherwise disastrous chain of events. The water pressure crushed the underwater machine so quickly that no passengers could see what was coming.
It surely is one of the worst ways to die, but you stack that against five passengers trapped on the ocean floor, with a limited supply of food, water and oxygen, groping in the dark and waiting to die, an implosion seems the brighter option.
If a rescue was not on the cards, an implosion at least saved the poor souls from long hours of emotional rumination about the past, questioning their recent choices, and watching fellow passengers die.
Harrison Okene, a cook in a Nigerian tugboat Jascon-4, endured exactly those very same ordeal that we even dread to think. Thirty kilometres off the coast of Nigeria, he was trapped alone under the sea for 60 hours!
